| John Feltham - 1799 - 146 Seiten
...if you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat. v. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable,...for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. We increase the sense of virtue in ourselves, by the consciousness of virtue in others. VII.... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 Seiten
...is a miserable thing to live in suspense ; it is the life of a spider, " Vive quid em, pende tamen, improba, dixit." OVID. Metam. The stoical scheme of...for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so clinching is performed in the... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 386 Seiten
...the merriest countenances in mourning coaches. Nothing more unqualifies a man to act with pru dence, than a misfortune that is attended with shame and...doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed ia the same posture with . creeping. Ill company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he loves... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 Seiten
...observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning-coaches. Nothing more unqualifies a man to act with prudence,...for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Amhition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climhing is performed in the... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1812 - 876 Seiten
...real life, except by those who have met with misfortunes in the world; for, as Swift well observes, the power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to pmdcnce or merit. V. 845-45. A Persian tir.p'ror tr/itpp'd his grannam, The sea, &c.] The bridge of... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 342 Seiten
...Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are nut admitted to be jurors upon life and death. The reason...for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. Amhition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so climhing is performed in the... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...Virtue, if not in action, is a vice; And, when we move not forward, we go backward. Massinger. MCXCIX. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable;...happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. — Sunft. MCC. In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...Virtue, if not in action, is a vice; And, when we move not forward, we go backward. Massinger. MCXCIX. The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable;...happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. — Swift. MCC. In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - 272 Seiten
...Better than pomp, by crowds adored, Or gold immeasurably stored,— A pure and spotless Name. PINDAR. AMBITION often puts men upon doing the meanest offices...climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. SWIFT. THE seraph Sympathy, from heaven descends, And bright o'er earth his beaming forehead bends,... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 Seiten
...comparing us with himself, he thinks us defective either in our conduct or understanding.—Addison. 826. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.—Swift. 827. The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what... | |
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