 ... a speckled ax was best." For something that pretended to be reason was every now and then suggesting to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which if it were known would make me ridiculous; that...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Sayfa 3311818Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Edward Hiram Reede - 1924 - 360 sayfa
...morals," that "a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated," that "a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself to keep his friends in countenance." He observed this outwitting of conscience in himself humorously. Such an ability in man "to find or... | |
 | Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins, Edward Hiram Reede - 1924 - 356 sayfa
...be reason," which kept suggesting to him that extreme nicety might be "a kind of foppery in morals," that "a perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated," that "a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself to keep his friends in countenance." He... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 sayfa
...to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 sayfa
...to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, 1926 D sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been 10... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 sayfa
...to me that such extreme nicety as I exacted of myself might be a kind of foppery in morals, which, if it were known, would make me ridiculous; that a...Order; and now I am grown old, and my memory bad, 1 feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I... | |
 | Giles Gunn - 1981 - 489 sayfa
...spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue upon that day. In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it. But, on the whole, tho' I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious... | |
 | Andrew Delbanco - 1991 - 324 sayfa
...sense of loss for which he barely has a language. And so he falls back on the language of "order": "In truth, I found myself incorrigible with respect...now I am grown old, and my memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it." This is his one whisper of the feeling of privation — what Saul Bellow... | |
 | Ariel Books - 1992 - 100 sayfa
...for relations. — Hugh KingsmiH Love demands infinitely less than friendship. — George Jean Nathan A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. — Benjamin Franklin A friendship that can end never really began. — Publilius Syrus Talk not of... | |
 | Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - 1993 - 241 sayfa
...image of "swimming."3 In it he spoke not of sin nor even of sins but of "errata," and he concluded that "a benevolent Man should allow a few Faults in himself, to keep his Friends in Countenance."4 The one found the way to salvation in an instantaneous and disjunctive moment of regeneration,... | |
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