 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 556 lehte
...seldom expect 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 lehte
...seldom expect 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 propos'd as things forgot." He also recommends it to us, " To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence."... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 lehte
...you, with pleasure -ovm your errors past, And make Gash, day a critic on the lastr ; i:r.-;ii,'f- • *Tis not enough your -counsel still be true ; Blunt truths more mischief than nice fabehoods:dQ^ Men must he taught as if you; taught them: nots And things unknown proposed as things... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1821 - 754 lehte
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 lehte
...fops we know, Who if once wrong will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last. Tis not...things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good breeding truth is disapproved; That only makes superior sense beloved. Fear not the anger of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 lehte
...passage of equal taste and utility ; " Et ipsa emendatio habet finem ; sunt enim qui ad omnia scripta, Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; ' '-'...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 lehte
...habet finem ; sunt enim qui ad omnia scripta, 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true ; /?..f . Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1823 - 320 lehte
...conviction on those whom you may be desirous of gaining over to your views. Pope judiciously observes, Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. And in the same poem he afterwards advises us To speak, tho' sure, with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 400 lehte
...know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so ; But you with pleasure own your errors past, 570 And make each day a critique on the last. 'Tis not...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 lehte
...know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so ; But you with pleasure own your errors past, 570 And make each day a critique on the last. 'Tis not...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... | |
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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. 
