 Devil's heartiest laugh is at a detracting witticism. Hence the phrase "devilish good" has sometimes a literal meaning. 9. The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor....  Lectures on Art, and Poems - Página 169por Washington Allston - 1850 - 396 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Washington Allston - 1850 - 404 páginas
...which the efforts of no individual, however persevering, would enable him to reach. APHORISMS SENTENCES 1. " No genuine work of Art ever was, or ever can...The Phrenologists are right in placing the organ of self-love in the back of the head, it being there where a vain man carries his intellectual light ;... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 688 páginas
...blind us to his faults, but to our own rival and interposing merits." Again, "In the same degree tbat we overrate ourselves, we shall underrate others;...expect justice from a vain man ; if he has the negative mag. nanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect." This of fame, as distinguished... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 páginas
...without doubt his own." Bc dr. 510. " Never eipeet justice from a vain man ; if ho has the negativo magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect» ' — Washington Allston. "Gluttony and drunkennoK» havo two evils attendant on them; they make the... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1880 - 686 páginas
...deficiency of others may be very ignorant because he has not studied his own. In the same degree as we overrate ourselves we shall underrate others; for...allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad. It is this unquiet love of self that renders us. so sensitive. It is an instrument useful, but dangerous.... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 páginas
...deficiency of others may be very ignorant because he has not studied his own. In the same degree as we overrate ourselves we shall underrate others ;...allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad. It is this unquiet love of self that renders us so sensitive. It is an instrument useful, but dangerous.... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 páginas
...praise of what is subordinate. Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home. In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we...not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect A witch's skiff cannot more easily sail in the teeth of the wind than the human eye lie against fact;... | |
 | Jared Bradley Flagg - 1892 - 540 páginas
...the worst, kind of lie is a half-truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor." " In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we...to disparage you, it is the most you can expect." " The phrenologists are right in placing the organ of self-love in the back of the head, it being there... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...deficiencies of others may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own. — Bulicer Lytton. In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we...allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad. — Washington Allston. SELF-CONTROL. He that rulcth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 páginas
...a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. — Longfellow. In the same degree that we overrate ourselves, we...allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad. — Washington Allsten. Wonldeet thon not be thought a fool in another's conceit, be not wise in thy... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 páginas
...person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. — Longfel¡tne. eniy Taylor. Never yet did there exist a full injnstice allowed at home is not likely to be corrected abroad. — Washington Alltton. Wonldest thon... | |
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