 | Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 250 pages
...genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but truth, justice, temperance, and the like, are in every man's power, the practice of which virtues, assisted by experience and good intention, will qualify any man for the service ef his country, except where a course of •study... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 pages
...affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age: but they suppose truth, justice,...country, except where a course of study is required. Bnt they thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by superior endowments of... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pages
...juftice, temperance, and the ke, to be in every man's power, the practice of which virtues, affifted by experience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the fervice of his country, except where a courfe of ftudy is required. But they thought the want of moral... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...genins, of which there seldom are three born in an age : but they suppose truth, justice, temper* ance, and the like, to be in every man's power, the practice...supplied by superior endowments of the mind, that eiroloyments could never be put into such dangerous handa as those of persons so qualified ; and at... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pages
...affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age : but they suppose truth, justice,...any man for the service of his country, except where * An act of parliament has since been passed, by which some breaches of trust have been made capital... | |
 | Charles Collier - 1856 - 156 pages
...affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age; but they suppose truth, justice,...experience and a good intention, would qualify any man * Swift's works, vol. vi., p. 55. for the service of his country, except where a course of study is... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...affairs a mystery, to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age ; but they suppose truth, justice,...qualify any man for the service of his country, except when a course of study is required. But they thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 pages
...affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age : but they suppose truth, justice,...any man for the service of his country, except where *Ap act of parliament has since been passed, bj which some breachet of trait havti keen made capital... | |
 | 1873 - 1086 pages
...affairs a mystery to be comprehended only by a few persons of sublime genius, of which there seldom are three born in an age : but they suppose truth, justice,...intention, would qualify any man for the service of hi* country, except where a course of study is required. But they thought the want of moral virtues... | |
 | 1874 - 378 pages
...of which there seldom are three born in an age : but truth, justice, temperance, and the like, are in every man's power, the practice of which virtues, assisted by experience and good intention, will qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study... | |
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... suppose truth, justice, temperance, and the like, to be in every man's power; the practice of which virtues, assisted by experience and a good intention, would qualify any man for the service of his country, except where a course of study is required. 
