 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 256 Seiten
...7 Discretion has large and extended views ; and, like a weU-ibrmed eye, commands a whole horiaon : cunning is a kind of short-sightedness, that discovers...distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it : cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 262 Seiten
..., and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed . 7. Discretion has large and extended views ; and , like a well-formed eye , commands a whole horizon...objects which are near at hand , but is not able to disccru things at a distance . Discretion , the more it is discovered , gives a greater authority to... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 Seiten
...selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon:...distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it: cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 Seiten
...nothing which may make them succeed.* 9. Discretion has large and extended \ie,WS; and like a well-funned eye, commands a whole horizon;; cunning is a kind...a distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, ^ives a greater authority to the person who possesses it ; cunning, when it is once detected, loses... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 Seiten
...under the government of her successors, have broken us into these unhappy distinctions. Id. Freeholder. Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers...hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. Spectator. May they not justly to our climes upbraid Skiirtiiiis of night, and penury of shade 1 Prior.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 216 Seiten
...whole horizon : cunning is a kind 61 short-sightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which art near at hand, but is not able to discern things at...distance. — Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it: cunning, when it is once detected, loses its force,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 Seiten
...; and sticks at nothing- which may make them succeed. 7. Discretion has large and extended views ; and, like a wellformed eye, commands a whole horizon...that discovers the minutest objects which are near at Land, but is not able to discern things at a distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - 644 Seiten
...nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well formed eye, commands a whole horizon ; cunning is a kind...discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but not able to discern things at a distance. Discretion, the more it is discovered, gives a greater authority... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1831 - 1158 Seiten
...succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well formed eye, commands a whole Irçrizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but not able to discern things at a distance, pisa greater authority to the person who possesses it ; cunning,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 Seiten
...nothing which nmy make them succeed. 7 Discretion has large and extended views ; and, like a well-ibrmed eye, commands a whole horizon : cunning is a kind...discern things at a -distance. Discretion, the more it isdiscovered, gives a greater authority to the person who possesses it : cunning, when it is once detected,... | |
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Discretion has large and extended views, and like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon. Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance. 
