 | 1868 - 400 pages
...harbinger of the inundation ?-Saker'f African Explorations, vol. ip 382. MCTUAL-ALD ASSOCIATION REPORTER. A MAN should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is bat saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-daj than he was yesterday. SENSIBILITY is like the... | |
 | 1869 - 414 pages
...and eminence, and treasures up joys for the future, either on earth or in heaven, or both. — Scott. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in...words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. — Pojx. Answers to Queries. Pharaoli, p. 320. — The Biblical word Pharaoh, is generally considered... | |
 | John Robertson (LL.D., of Upton Park sch.) - 1869 - 136 pages
...as was reported. We are such stuff as dreams are made on. A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other...that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. The king, who was compelled to dismiss his ministers, determined to call to his councils fresh men. The... | |
 | 1870 - 244 pages
...counsel of God will always prevail, although men may honestly but Ignorantly object to It. Starke. 4. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in...words that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. Pope. 5. God often gives gracious answers to the prayers of his people, not In the thing Itself that... | |
 | John Richard Houlding, Old Boomerang - 1870 - 456 pages
...how I can honourably retract. It would look so foolish to back out of it now." "Alexander Pope says, 'A man should never be ashamed to own he has been...words that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday," said Simon. " You are an Australian, Ben, and if you have any ambition to see the land of your birth... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...some dead weight hanging at them, to help and regulate the motion of the finer and more useful parts. A man .should never be ashamed to own he has been...words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. WhatTully says of war may be applied to disputing ; it should be always so managed, as to remember... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them. 18th-century English proverb A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in...words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,... | |
 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 pages
...of this world is foolishness with God. 1 Corinthians 3:19 A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in...words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Jonathan Swift The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Psalm 1 1 1:10 WISE The wise man would... | |
 | John Hick - 1995 - 176 pages
...with Jonathan Swift when he said that 'A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been mistaken, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday'! Phil: OK. But concentrating on your wisdom of today, has not the Real, as the ultimate religious referent,... | |
 | Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg - 1996 - 212 pages
...self-righteous and disrespectful. Now that he had hit bottom, he was willing to look at himself more honestly. "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been...words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. " —ALEXANDER POPE What he learned was this: like most people who have to be right all the time, Tom... | |
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong; which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. 
