 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754 - 398 páginas
...like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. IV. Fine fenfe and exalted fenfe are not half fo ufeful as common fenfe : there are forty men of wit for one...be every day at a lofs for want of readier change. V. Learning is like mercury, one of the moft powerful and excellent things in the world in fkilful... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1754 - 356 páginas
...like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. IV. Fine fenfe and exalted fenfe are not half fo ufeful as common fenfe : there are forty men of wit for one...be every day at a lofs for want of readier change. V. Learning is like mercury, one of the moft powerful and excellent things in the world in fkilful... | |
 | Index - 1754 - 180 páginas
...Senfe are not half fo ufeful as Common Senie. There are forty Men of Wit, for • one Man of Senfe: And he that will carry nothing about him but Gold, will be every Day at a Lofs foe v.mt of readier Change. The, The beft Jewellers nfe the leaft Silver; and he that •will fet his... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1757 - 406 páginas
...and exalted fenfe are not half fo ufeful as common fenfe : there are forty men of wit for one matt. of fenfe; and he, that will carry nothing about him...moft powerful and excellent things in the world in Ikilful hands ; in Qflflulful, the moft mifchievous. ; ' V" ' ' .., .., .."•'. . . . • . VI. THE... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1760 - 236 páginas
...like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. IV. Fine fenfe and exalted fenfe are not half fo ufeful as common fenfe : there are forty men of wit for one...be every day at a lofs for want of readier change. V. Learning is like mercury, one of the moft powerful and excellent things in the world in flcilful... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1768 - 352 páginas
...Fine fenfe and exalted fenfe are not half fo ufeful as common fenfe : there are forty men of wit to one man of fenfe ; and he, that will carry nothing...be every day at a lofs for want of readier change. V. Learning is like mercury, one of the moft powerful and excellent things in the world in fkilful... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 348 páginas
...like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. IV. Fine fenfe and exalted fenfe are not half fb ufeful as common fenfe : There are forty men of wit for one...nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loil for want of readier change. V, Learning is like mercury, one of the moft powerful and excellent... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 páginas
...a vein of gold which the author knows not of. FINE fenfe and exalted fenfe are not half fo valuable as common fenfe. There are forty men of wit for one...but gold, will be every day at a lofs for want of ready change. LEARNING is like mercury, one of the moft ppwerful and excellent things in the world... | |
 | 1792 - 494 páginas
...fcnfe, arc not half le valuable as curumgn fcnle. There arc forty men of wit for one man of fcnfe ; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a lofs for want of ready change. I. e ¡ri i ig is like mercury, one of the moft powerful and excellent thines in the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 440 páginas
...is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. Fine fenfe and exalted fenfe are not half fo ufeful as common fenfe. There are forty men of wit for one...be every day at a lofs for want of readier change. DD 4 LearnLearning is like mercury, one of the moft powerful and excellent things in the world in Ikilful... | |
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense ; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change. 
