 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 416 halaman
...the fame poftare with creeping. ILL company is like aiiog, who dirts thofe moft whom he loves bell. CENSURE is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ALT HO'men are accuftd for not knowing their own weaknefs, yet perhaps as few know their own ftrength.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1761 - 412 halaman
...pofture with creeping. Ill company is like a dog, who dirts thofe molt whom he loves beft. Cenfure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Although men are accufed for not knowing their own weaknefs, yet perhaps as few know their own ftrength. It is in men... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 382 halaman
...creeping. • De Re Equcftri. 111 company is like a dog, who dirts thofe molt whom he loves beft. Cenfure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Although men are accufed for not knowing their own weaknefs, yet perhaps as few know their own ftrength. It is in men... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 halaman
...np in cu••• ring the follies, prejudices, and falfe opinions he had contrafted in the former. CENsURE is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. VERT few men, properly fpeaking, live at prefent, but are providing to live another time. PARTT is... | |
 | 1792 - 494 halaman
...taken up in curing the follies, preludias and falle opinions he had contracted in the formor. Ccnlure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Very few men, properly fpvaking, live at prcftnt, but arc providing to live another time. Party is... | |
 | 1797 - 522 halaman
...taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, ami falie opinion* he had contracted in the Ibrmcr. Cenfare is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Very few men, properly fpeaking, live at pre/ent; but are providing to live another time. Party is... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 halaman
...curing the follies, prejudices, places, and falle opinions he had contracted 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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 halaman
...prudence or merit. Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices ; so clinching is performed in the same posture with creeping. Ill company is like...loves best. Censure, is the tax a man pays to the publick, for being eminent. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 halaman
...has one accented syllable pronounced evidently louder than the rest. But in the following sentence, Censure is the tax a man pays to the' public for being eminent ; — in the pronunciation of this sentence, I say, we find the words in Italics pronounced with an... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 halaman
...to find Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind. POPE, ' CEITSURE,' says a late ingenious author, ' is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.' It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping it, and a weakness to be affected with it. All... | |
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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. 
