| Benjamin Franklin - 1834 - 682 lehte
...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 336 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...things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good breeding truth is disapproved: That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards of advice on... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 lehte
...so: But you, with pleasure, own your errors past, 570 And make each day a critique on the last. 'Tie not enough your counsel still be true : Blunt truths...taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgou Without good breeding truth is disapproved: That only makes superior sense beloved. Be niggards... | |
| Silas Jones - 1836 - 362 lehte
...induced to leave it off because it involved him in difficulties. He then adopted the maxim of Pope : " Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot." Secretiveness was certainly sufficiently active to give a balance to his character, but never manifested... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 lehte
...But you, with pleasure own your erroi*« past, And make each day a critique on the last. 'Tis 7iot all ; Or helps the ambitious hill yen taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Without good-breeding, truth is... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1839 - 96 lehte
...those whom you may be desirous of gaining over to your views. Pope judieiously observes — Men must bo taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. And in the same poem he afterward advises us To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidenee. He might... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1839 - 266 lehte
...those whom you may he desirous of gaining over to your views. Pope judiciously ohserves, Men must he taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot. And in the same poem he afterwards advises us, To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence. He might... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 342 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 proposed as things forgot , And in the same poem he afterwards advises us, To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence. He... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 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 tilings forgot." He also recommends it to us "To speak, though sure, with seeming diffidence." And... | |
| 1872 - 882 lehte
...devices of a rhetorician. The " popularity " of a sermon implies the observance of the old rule : " Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot." * Applying the term "popular" in this scientific sense, as comprehending not merely the agreeableness... | |
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