In writing or speaking, give to every person his due title, according to his degree and the custom of the place. 15. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. St. Nicholas - Page 274edited by - 1886Full view - About this book
| D.C. Heath and Company - Readers - 1903 - 362 pages
...or speaking, give to every person his due title according to his degree and the custom of the place. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. Undertake not to teach your equal in the art he himself professes ; it flavors of arrogancy. When a... | |
| John Frederick Schroeder - Presidents - 1903 - 540 pages
...Wherein you reprove another, be unblamable yourself ; for example is more prevalent than precepts. " 7. Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any. " 8. In your apparel be modest, and endeavor to accommodate nature rather than to procure admiration.... | |
| William Estabrook Chancellor - Spellers - 1904 - 80 pages
...or ar'gu ment sub mit' judg'ment mod'es ty drudge drudg'er y com plain' cat'a ract Ni ag'a ra 104 " Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty." — Washington. " We wear out our teeth in the hard drudgery of the outset, and when we do get bread,... | |
| Agnes Mawson - 1905 - 206 pages
...aggravate his misery. When a man does all he can though it succeed not well, blame not him that did it. Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any. In your apparel be modest, and endeavor to accommodate Nature, rather than to procure admiration ;... | |
| Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - Readers - 1906 - 392 pages
...speaking, give to every person his due title, according to his degree and the custom of the place. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. Undertake not to teach your equal in the art he professes ; it savors of arrogance. When a man does... | |
| Webster Perit Huntington - Ohio - 1906 - 628 pages
...speaking, give to every person his due title, according to his degree and the custom of the place. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes ; it savours of arrogancy. When a man... | |
| 1906 - 284 pages
...of young people. Here are some of them: "Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor in earnest. Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any. Be not apt to relate news if you know not the truth thereof. Be careful to keep your promise. Speak... | |
| Ella Marie Powers, Thomas Minard Balliet - Readers - 1906 - 392 pages
...more prevalent than precept. Use no reproachful language against any one, neither curse nor revile. Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any. In your apparel, be modest, and endeavor to accommodate nature, rather than to procure admiration ;... | |
| Lizzie E. Wooster, Lorraine Elizabeth Wooster - Readers - 1907 - 328 pages
...comprehensive. In visiting the sick, do not presently play the physician, if you be not knowing therein. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. Undertake not to teach your equal in the art he himself professes ; it savors of arrogancy. THE WOOSTER... | |
| Lawton Bryan Evans - English language - 1908 - 206 pages
...that speak in private. 6. Use no reproachful language against any one, neither curse nor revile. 7. Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any — GEORGE WASHINGTON. 8. Resolve to perform what you ought ; perform without fail what you resolve.... | |
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