 | 1800 - 490 pages
...learning is but pedantry, wit impertinence, generosity profusion, courage fool-hardiness, and even virtue itself looks like weakness : .the best parts...qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active only to his own prejudice. Discretion is the wisdom of governing ourselves ; it is the ability of directing... | |
 | 1800 - 498 pages
...learning is but pedantry, wit impertinence, generosity profusion, courage fool-hardiness, and even virtue itself looks like weakness : the best parts...only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and.adtwe only to his own prejudice. Discretion is the wisdom of governing ourselves 4 it is the ability... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 pages
...in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is pos;«;&edof them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and •wit...impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness: the beat parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly ifl errors, and active to his own prejudice. - pf... | |
 | 1803 - 402 pages
...value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them....sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Nor does discretion only make a man the master of his own parts, but of other men's. The discreet man... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them....sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Nor does discretion only make a man the master of his own parts, but of other mens. The discreet man... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 294 pages
...value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them....looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a iinm to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Nor does discretion only make... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1810 - 488 pages
...value to all the rest; which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them....ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends fto us, and pursues the most proIper and laudable methods of atDIS 235 DIS laming them ; cunning has... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...to all the rest ; which sets them at work in their proper times and places ; and turns them 'to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them....errors, and active to his own prejudice. Discretion does not only make a man the master of his own parts, but of other men's. The disereet man finds out... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 384 pages
...value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them....sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Nor does discretion only make a man the master of his own paits, but of other mens. The discreet man... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...value to all the rest; which sets them at work in their proper times and places ; and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them....is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looto like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be Discretion does not only show itself... | |
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the... 
