 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 440 pages
...which he likes leaft. He who tells a lye, is not fenfible how great a tafk he undertakes ; for he muft be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one....Giving advice is many times only the privilege of faying a foolifh thing one's felf, under pretence of hindering another from doing one. 'Tis 'Tis with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 pages
...each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. XXXI. He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task...forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. XXXII. Giving advice, is, many times, only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 pages
...each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. XXXI. He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task...forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. XXXII. Giving advice, is, many times, only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under... | |
 | English instructor - 1801 - 272 pages
...curing the folJies , prejudices , and false opinions he had contracted in the former. He who tells a lye is not sensible how great a task he undertakes : for...forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong ; which is but saying in other words... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 pages
...SELECTION; It Superstition is the spleen of the soul. He who tells a He, is not sensible how great a t«.sk he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. Some people will never learn any thing ; for this reason, because they understand every thing to»... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 444 pages
...which he likes leaft. He who tells a lie, is not fenfible how great a taflc he undertakes ; for he muft be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one....Giving advice is many times only the privilege of faying a foolifli thing one's felf, under pretence of hindering another from doing one. . 'Tis with... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 442 pages
...which he likes leaft. He who tells a lie, is not fenfible how great a tafk he undertakes; for he muft be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one....Giving advice is many times only the privilege of faying a foolifh thing one's felf, under pretence of hindering another from doing one. 'Tis with followers... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 446 pages
...that which he likes He who U-lls a lie, is not fenfible how great a taflc he undertakes; for he muft be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one....Giving advice is many times only the privilege of laying a foolifh thing one's felf, under pretence of hindering another from doing one. 'Tis with followers... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 pages
...compliment each other with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets that which he likes least. He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task...that one. Giving advice, is, many times, only the pri-. vilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under pretence of hindering another from doing one.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...sense, is like attempting to hew blocks of marble with a razor. Superstition is the spleen of the sou}. He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes : for he must be obliged to invent twenty more to maintain that one. Some people will. never learn auy thing, for tbis... | |
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He who tells a lie, is not sensible how great a task he undertakes ; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one. 
