 I am very well versed in the theory of a husband or a father, and can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others better than those who are engaged in them — as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are...  Selections from the Spectator - Pagina 4door Joseph Addison, Kenneth Deighton - 1901 - 220 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1911 - 418 pagina’s
...can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them: as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game." He looks down with as clear vision as a Lucretius, whom he admires: Sed nil dulcius est, bene quam... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1914 - 262 pagina’s
...can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others better than those who are engaged in them, as standers-by discover blots which...Tories, unless I shall be forced to declare myself by 5 the hostilities of either side. In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 pagina’s
...can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them ; as standers-by discover blots, which...escape those who are in the game. I never espoused any part with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and Tories, unless... | |
 | Lindsay Russell - 1915 - 362 pagina’s
...can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others better than those who are engaged in them, as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game." But it is not a question of blots. The critics whom I have mentioned performed a national and international... | |
 | Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pagina’s
...can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots which...escape those who are in the game. I never espoused [130 any party with violence, and am resolved to observe an exact neutrality between the Whigs and... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 pagina’s
...the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged 85 in them ; as standers-by discover blots which are...declare myself by the hostilities of either side. 90 In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, which is the character I intend... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 984 pagina’s
...the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged 85 in them ; as standers-by discover blots which are...declare myself by the hostilities of either side. 90 In short, I have acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on. which is the character I intend... | |
 | Grant Showerman - 1922 - 208 pagina’s
...can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them: as standers-by discover blots which are apt to escape those who are in the game. He looks down from his post upon the life of men with as clear vision as Lucretius, whom he admires:... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1923 - 650 pagina’s
...can discern the errors in the economy, business, and diversion of others better than those who are engaged in them — as standers-by discover blots...acted in all the parts of my life as a looker-on, so which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper. I have given the reader just so much... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pagina’s
...and diversion of others, better than those who are engaged in them; as standers-by discover blots,2 of my house, whereof one very narrowly missed my...so proper as to deliver them bound into my hands; looker on, which is the character I intend to preserve in this paper. I have given the reader just... | |
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