Essays, Moral, Economical and PoliticalJ. Johnson, 1807 |
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Pàgina ix
... Cunning · Wisdom for a Man's Self Innovations Dispatch • Seeming Wise Friendship • Expense • The True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates Regimen of Health · Suspicion · Page 1 4 7 13 15 17 21 23 26 33 35 40 42 45 49 51 61 64 66 69 76 ...
... Cunning · Wisdom for a Man's Self Innovations Dispatch • Seeming Wise Friendship • Expense • The True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates Regimen of Health · Suspicion · Page 1 4 7 13 15 17 21 23 26 33 35 40 42 45 49 51 61 64 66 69 76 ...
Pàgina 19
... cunning to suffer a man to keep an indifferent carriage between both , and to be secret , without swaying the balance on either side . They will so beset a man with questions , and draw him on , and pick it out of him , that , without ...
... cunning to suffer a man to keep an indifferent carriage between both , and to be secret , without swaying the balance on either side . They will so beset a man with questions , and draw him on , and pick it out of him , that , without ...
Pàgina 30
... cunning fashion ; for in that course a man doth but disavow fortune , and seemeth to be con- scious of his own want in worth , and doth but teach others to envy him . Lastly , to conclude this part , as we said 30 OF ENVY .
... cunning fashion ; for in that course a man doth but disavow fortune , and seemeth to be con- scious of his own want in worth , and doth but teach others to envy him . Lastly , to conclude this part , as we said 30 OF ENVY .
Pàgina 83
... CUNNING . We take cunning for a sinister , or crooked wis- dom ; and certainly there is a great difference be- tween a cunning man and a wise man , not only in point of honesty , but in point of ability . There be that can pack the ...
... CUNNING . We take cunning for a sinister , or crooked wis- dom ; and certainly there is a great difference be- tween a cunning man and a wise man , not only in point of honesty , but in point of ability . There be that can pack the ...
Pàgina 84
... cunning men are like haber- bashers of small wares , it is not amiss to set forth their shop . It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye , as the Jesuits give it in precept ; for there be many wise men ...
... cunning men are like haber- bashers of small wares , it is not amiss to set forth their shop . It is a point of cunning to wait upon him with whom you speak with your eye , as the Jesuits give it in precept ; for there be many wise men ...
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