| Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 trang
...will leave you in a tranquil possession of your errors. By following such a method, you can rarely hope to please your auditors, conciliate their good will, or work conviction on those whom you may be desirous of gaining over to your views. Pope judiciously observes, Men must be taught as if you... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 trang
...to please your hearers, or obtain the concurrence you desire. Pope judiciously observes, Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. He also recommends it to us, To speak tho' sure, with seeming diffidence. And he might have joined... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 trang
...enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do: Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good breeding truth is disapproved; That only makes superior sense beloved. Fear not the anger... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1823 - 310 trang
...will leave you in a tranquil possession of your errors. By following such a method, you can rarely hope to please your auditors, conciliate their good will, or work conviction on those whom you may be desirous of gaining over to your views. Pope judiciously observes, Men must be taught as if you... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 trang
...'Tie not enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Hen must he taught as if you taught them not , And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good-breeding truth is disapproved; That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 trang
...enough your counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do : Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good-breeding truth is disapproved ; That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of... | |
| 1826 - 440 trang
...create opposition, and to defeat most of the purposes for which speech was given to us." Men tnnst be taught as if you taught them not. And things unknown proposed as things forgot. So long as this can be fairly reconciled with sincerity, this advice may be attended to ; but this... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 trang
...enough your counsel still be true : Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; Sien must be agination with far greater force than the solitude of a grove. This piece was, h Without good breeding truth is disapproved: That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of... | |
| 1830 - 222 trang
...immoveably fixed on the only tru'k and solid good •"' ' ' -4k1 COBRETT r». WELLINGTON. " Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot." • Dr. Franklin lays-great stress upon this prudent course. Perhaps there may be something in Cobbott's... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 trang
...your hearers, or obtain the concurrence you desire. Pope judiciously observes, Men must be taught ai if you taught them not. And things unknown proposed as things forgot. He also recommends it to us, To speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence And he might have joined... | |
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