 | Fanny Burney - 1890 - 482 pages
...distinctions which were unattainable. " It is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, " that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." Everyday brings with it fresh illustrations of this weighty saying ; but the best commentary that we... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1891 - 228 pages
...distinctions which were unattainable. " It is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, " that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." Every day brings with it fresh illustrations of this weighty saying; but the best commentary that we... | |
 | Francis Cuthbert Doyle - 1893 - 434 pages
...MEMORABLE WORDS OF THE WISE. " It is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, " that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." " Every day brings with it fresh illustrations of this weighty saying ; but the best commentary that... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...in the stormy billows of the world. — Goethe. It is an uncontrolled truth that no mnn ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. — Swift. TALKING. TALKING. A man with great talents, but void of dis- 1 cretion, is like Polyphemus... | |
 | 1892 - 760 pages
...than Alexander and Csasar. " It is an uiicontroverted truth," said Swift, " that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." "Everyone that exaltoth himself shall be abased ; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." II.... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 488 pages
...square holes as he would shun falsehood and dishonor. It has been well said that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. CHAPTER VL WHAT CAREEK? Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1896 - 344 pages
...the smallest human being who is himself. CHAPTER V. WHAT SHALL I DO ? No man ever made an ill-figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. —SwiFT. Blesssed is he who has found his work, — let him ask no other blessing. — CART,YI,B.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 602 pages
...distinctions which were unattainable. " It is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, " that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." Every day brings with it fresh illustrations of this weighty saying ; but the best commentary that... | |
 | 1864 - 1118 pages
...next month.) • — "1т is an nncontroverted truth," says Dean Swift, "that no man ever made an ¡11 figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. THE FAMILY DRAWING MASTER.' 1.4 A SERIES OF FAMILIAR CONVERSATIONS. LINES. ( Continued. ) P. Do yon... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1899 - 350 pages
...with books of amusement in your own language. It is an uncontrolled truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. I am &c. JON. SWIFT. There is a difficulty about the date of these two letters which I cannot clear... | |
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It is an uncontrolled truth," says Swift, " that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. 
