| Robert Lloyd - 1762 - 464 Seiten
...thence every man to form maxims to himfelf * whereby it may be regulated, becaufe it requireth few * talents to which moft men are not born, or at leaft * may hot acquire without any great genius or ftudy. * For nature hath left every man a capacity of being... | |
| Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1764 - 456 Seiten
...front thence every man to form maxims to Jiimfelf whereby it may be regulated, becaufe it requireth few talents to which moft men are not born, or at leaft may 'liot acquire without any great genius or fhidy. For nature hath left every man a capacity of being... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1766 - 378 Seiten
...himlelf whereby it may be regulated, bec-aufe it requireth few talents to P 3 which which troftmen are not born, or at leaft may not acquire without...hath left every man a capacity of being agreeable, tho' not of fhining in company ; and there are an hundred men fufficiently qualified for both, who,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 486 Seiten
...' thence every man to form maxims to himfelf whereby it may be regulated, becaufe it requireth few talents to which moft men are not born, or at leaft may not acquire without any great genius or iludy. For nature hath left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of fhining in company... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 404 Seiten
...thence every man to form maxims' to himfelf whereby it may be regulated ; becaufe it rcquireth few talents to which moft men are not born, or at leaft...every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of ihining in company ; and there arc an hundred men fufficientry qualified for both, who, by a very few... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1805 - 348 Seiten
...cannot have a common regimen ; it mould b« " as old as tradition, or even older." " It requires few talents to which moft men are not born, or at leaft may not acquire ;" " or which, at leaft, they may not acquire." " The court of chancery frequently mitigates and breaks... | |
| 1829 - 488 Seiten
...magistrate, " To lake up the weather, please your worship." NB Warrant refused. CONVERSATION, (from Swift.) NATURE hath left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company ; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both, who, by a very few... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 222 Seiten
...talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire without any great genius or study. For nature hath left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both, who, by a very few... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 502 Seiten
...talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire without any great genius or study. For nature hath left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are an hundred men sufficiently qualified for both, who, by a very few... | |
| Charles William Eliot - 1910 - 440 Seiten
...talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire without any great genius or study. For nature hath left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are an hundred men sufficiently qualified for both, who, by a very few... | |
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