 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 486 pages
...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 as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...mankind will take advice , when they will not so much as take warning. Although men are accused for not knowing, their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils , where sometimes there is a vein of gold whieh' the owner knows... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...mankind will take *d^ vice, when they will not so much as take warning ? Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...loves best. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1814 - 240 pages
...possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning- ? 4. Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 558 pages
...loves best. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning ? • Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...and scarcely leave a back where it found an edge. — Cotton. DCCCIV. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...and scarcely leave a back where it found an edge. — Colton. DCCCIV. Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1844 - 142 pages
...man can rise above the infirmities of nature unless assisted by God. — Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness yet perhaps as few know their own strength. — Because he was proud he ought to suffer. — Eobert is not so wise as his brother. —... | |
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Although men are accused for not knowing their own weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold, which the owner knows not of. 
