 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 672 стор.
...thousand times worse than nothing. It is an uncontroverted truth, that no man ever made an ill-figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. Let no young man of industry and perfect honesty despair because his profession or calling is crowded.... | |
 | Frank E. Hodgkin, J. J. Galvin - 1882 - 242 стор.
...none more pertinent than his aphorism that " it is an incontroverted truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." The subject of this biography will never make an ill figure. He is a representative of the young men... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1882 - 656 стор.
...will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. It is an uncontroverted truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. Let no young man of industry and perfect honesty despair because his profession and calling is crowded.... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882 - 744 стор.
...BONAR. Figure.— Talents and the It is an unconlroverted truth — that no man ever made an ill-figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them. — Dean SWIFT. Fire. — Baptized with Every son of man who would attain the true end of his being... | |
 | John Southward - 1883 - 166 стор.
...exaggeration in this as in the dictum of Swift, — " It is an uncontroverted truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." There are thousands of worthy people engaged in callings for which they were obviously never intended,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1884 - 498 стор.
...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. FROM LADY BETTY GERMAIN. June 5, 1731. I FANCY you have comforted yourself a... | |
 | Thomas Alfred Davies - 1884 - 558 стор.
...in employment and happiness." Dean Swift : " It is an uncontroverted truth that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." Sydney Smith : " Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed ; be anything else, and you... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 500 стор.
...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. FROM LADY BETTY GERMAIN. June 5, 1731. I FANCY you have comforted yourself a... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1885 - 372 стор.
...very greatly upon our forming a correct estimate of ourselves. Swift truly says, "No man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them." The humble man, seeing what is within the scope of his present power, does it ; and every such achievement... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1888 - 258 стор.
...could wish of the exactness of Swift's dictum, "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." THE SONGS OF THE CIVIL WAR. NATIONAL hymn is one of the things which cannot be made to order. No man... | |
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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. 
