 | Benjamin Franklin - 1815 - 336 pàgines
...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...the same poem he afterwards advises us, To speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence. He might have added to these lines, one that he has coupled elsewhere,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pàgines
...adopting such a manner you can seldom expect to please your hearers, or obtain the concurrence you desire. Pope judiciously observes, " Men 'must be taught,...not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot." He also recommends it to us, " To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence." And he might have joined... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 558 pàgines
...such a manner, you can seldom expect to please your bearers, 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.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1821 - 758 pàgines
...will, or to persuade such as you are desirous of bringing over to your views. Pope justly says — " Men must be taught as if you taught them not, " And things unknown propos'd as thuigs forgot." He also advises us "To speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence." The account which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pàgines
...not 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 propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without Good-Breeding, truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior sense belov'd. Be niggards... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pàgines
...enough your counsel still be true ; /?..f . Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do ; "' Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without Good-Breeding, truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior sense belov'd. Be niggards... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pàgines
...last. Tis not 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1823 - 310 pàgines
...attached to your own opinions, modest and sensible men, who do not love disputation, will leave you in a tranquil possession of your errors. By following such...in the same poem he afterwards advises us To speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence. He might have added to these lines, one that he has coupled elsewhere,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pàgines
...last. 'Tis not 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 propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior sense belov'd. Be niggards... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pàgines
...last. 'Tis not 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 propos'd as things forgot. 575 Without good-breeding truth is disapprov'd ; That only makes superior sense belov'd. Be niggards... | |
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. 
