 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 438 σελίδες
...sigh to find Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind. POPE. ' CENSURE,' says a late ingenious author, 'is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.' It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping it, and a weakness to be affected with it. All... | |
 | 1826 - 450 σελίδες
...up in cuiing the follies, prejudices, and nilfe opinions he had con tracted in the former. Cenfure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Very few men, properly fpeaking, live at prefent, but are providing to live another time. Party is... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 σελίδες
...noble, so tempting a design, that it drew even God himself from heaven to prosecute it. — Ibid. ' Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. m Ask thought for joy, grow rich and hoard within. Night Thoughts. The failings of good men are commonly... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 σελίδες
...up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions, he had contracted in the former. Ceasure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time. Party is... | |
 | 1828 - 398 σελίδες
...an argument of darkness in the mind: the greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. The firm, without pliancy ; and1 the pliant, without firmness ; resemble vessels without water, and... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 σελίδες
...omens and prognostics. A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot up mto prodigies. — Addison. DCCXXXV. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. — Swift. DCCXXXVL A man may be learned without talking sentences; as in his ordinary gesture he discovers... | |
 | 1829 - 488 σελίδες
...Adclinda upon his return to Leipzig — and gradually became an exemplary member of Society. MLB CENSURK is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. — Swift. J1aiuvalfsi. NEST OP THE TAYLOR BIRD. THIS is one of the most interesting objects in the... | |
 | 1831 - 460 σελίδες
...for oars, good or bad fortune are the favourable or contrary winds, and the judgment is the rudder. CENSURE Is the tax, a man pays to the public for being eminent. It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping, and a weakness to be effected by it. PEDANTRY... | |
 | Scottish proverbs - 1832 - 628 σελίδες
...that I liked ever. Cast you ower the house riggin, and ye '11 fa' on your feet. Canna has nae craft. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Charity begins at hame. Changes o" wark, is a lightening o' hearts. Clippet sheep will grow again.... | |
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind. POPE. ' CENSURE,' says a late ingenious author, ' is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. 
