 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton - 1861 - 268 σελίδες
...purely, and unlarded with any other. Never seem wiser nor more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. PLEASURE. MANY young people adopt pleasures, for which they have not the least taste, only because... | |
 | 1870 - 268 σελίδες
...without affectation, and insinuating without any seeming art or design. How " TO WEAR " LEARNING.—Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket;...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. METHOD AND MANNER.—The manner of doing things is often more important than the things themselves;... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1872 - 474 σελίδες
...purely, and unlarded with any other. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. Upon the whole, remember that learning (I mean Greek and Roman learning) is a most useful and necessary... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - 1873 - 340 σελίδες
...purely, and unlarded with any other, Never seem wiser nor more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. " Upon the whole, remember that learning (I mean Greek and Roman learning) is a most useful and necessary... | |
 | Cecil B. Hartley - 1875 - 344 σελίδες
...purely, and unlarded with any other. Never seem wiser nor more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. " Upon the whole, remember that learning (I mean Greek and Roman learning) is a most useful and necessary... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 σελίδες
...come to know and obey God has no intention to make the law of God his rale. CHARNOCK : Attributes. Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. LORD CHKSTF.RFIEI.D: Letters to his Son, Feb. 22, 1748. Learning maketh young men temperate, is the... | |
 | Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 476 σελίδες
...Browne's Wks., ii, 104. — A hindrance to a knowledge of the truth : Hobbes' Wks., vii, 222. — " Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket,...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman." Ld. Chesterfield's Let's, Feb. 22, 1748. 640. LECTURING.— Excellent hints on: Farraday's Life, 64,... | |
 | Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 478 σελίδες
...Browne's Wks., ii, 104. — A hindrance to a knowledge of the truth : Hobbes' Wks., vii, 222. — " Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket,...strike it, merely to show that you have one. If you arc asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman."... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1876 - 636 σελίδες
...unlarded with •..!,>• other. Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people yon ara with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private...out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. It* you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it; bat do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the... | |
 | James Kernan - 1877 - 130 σελίδες
...too much familiarity, genteel without affectation, and insinuating without any seeming art or design. How "to wear" Learning. Wear your learning like your...proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. Method and Manner. The manner of doing things is often more important than the things themselves ;... | |
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Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket : and do not pull it out and strike it ; merely to show that you have one. 
