 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...and from thence every man to form maxims to himself whereby it may be regulated, because it requires es; it does so by the mental exercise it gives, without any great genius or study. For nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though... | |
 | Harvard University - 1873 - 732 pages
...language, neither bookish nor vulgar, neither redolent of the lamp or of the Kennel. — ST COLERIDGE. d. It requireth few talents to which most men are not born, or, at least, may not acquire. — SWIFT. «. She had not yet listened patiently to his heart-beats, but only felt that her own was... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1874 - 420 pages
...sometimes coupled as having a common regimen, when, in fact, they do not admit of it; as, " It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or, at least, may not acquire." The second clause does not properly follow to which: "to which most men may not acquire." To make good... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...subject, and thence every man to form maxims to himself whereby it may be regulated ; because it requires without any great genius or study. For nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though... | |
 | Peter Bullions - English language - 1881 - 366 pages
...property most men have, or at least may attain.—This property has or will be sold.—It requires few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire. —The people of this country possess a healthy climate and soil.—I have purchased a house and orchard.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 488 pages
...and from thence every man to form maxims to himself whereby it may be regulated, because it requires few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire, without any great genius or study. For nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 496 pages
...and from thence every man to form maxims to himself whereby it may be regulated, because it requires few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire, without any great genius or study. For nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 494 pages
...and from thence every man to form maxims to himself whereby it may be regulated, because it requires few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire, without any great genius or study. For nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...forgotten. Gentlemen's materials made up and waited on at their own homes. — Tailor's Advertisement. It requireth few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire. — SWIFT. A Methodist church in Baltimore advertised that it would pay ten dollars reward " for the... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - English language - 1884 - 828 pages
...forgotten. Gentlemen's materials made up and waited on at their own homes.—Tailor's Advertisement. It requireth few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire.—SWIFT. A Methodist church in Baltimore advertised that it would pay ten dollars reward "... | |
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... it requires few talents to which most men are not born, or at least may not acquire, without any great genius or study. 
