 ... fame becomes a man more towards his exit, than at his entrance into life ; and yet you confess, that the longer you live, the more you grow indifferent about it. Your sentiment is true and natural ; your reasoning, I am afraid, is not so upon this...  Medical and Philosophical Commentaries - Page 2111774Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1751 - 362 pages
...reafoning I am afraid is not fo upon this occafion. Prudence will make us defire fame, becaufe it giveth us many real and great advantages in all the affairs...his ends are his own good, and the good of fociety. You Poets and Orators have inverted this order ; you propofe fame as the end ; and good, or at leaft... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 298 pages
...it. Your fentiment is true and natural ; your reafoning, I am afraid, is not fo upon this occafion. Prudence will make us defire Fame, becaufe it gives...in all the affairs of life. Fame is the wife man's man's means ; his ends are his own good, and the good of fociety. You Poets &nd Orators have inverted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 344 pages
...it. Your fentiment is true and natural ; your reafoning, I am afraid, is not fo uppn this occafion. Prudence will make us defire Fame, becaufe it gives...great advantages in all the affairs of life. Fame is.thewife man's means ; his ends are his own good, and the good of fociety. You Poets and Orators... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 298 pages
...and natural ; your reafoning, I am afraid, isnotfo uppn this occafion Prudence will make us dt-fire Fame, becaufe it gives us many real and great advantages...in all the affairs of life, Fame is the wife man's man's means ; his'ends are his own good, and the good of fociety. You Poets and O. ators have inverted... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 350 pages
...about it. Your fentiment is true and natural; your reafoning, I am afraid, is not fo upon this ocfion. Prudence will make us defire Fame, becaufe it gives...his ends are his own good, and the good of fociety. You Poets and Orators have inverted this order ; yoa propofe Fame as the end ; and good, or at leaft... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 352 pages
...it. Your fentiment is true and natural j your reafoning, I am afraid, is not fo upon this occafion. Prudence will make us defire Fame, becaufe it gives...his ends are his own good, and the good of fociety. You Poets and Orators have inverted this order ; you propofe Fame as the end ; and good, or at leaft... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1761 - 424 pages
...and natural ; your reafoning, I am afraid, is not fo upon this occafion. Prudence will make us delire fame, becaufe it gives us many real and great advantages in all the affairs of life. Fame is the v.-ilU VOL. VIII. 1 man's man's means; his ends are his own good, and the good of fociety. You poets... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 406 pages
...reafoning, I am afraid, is not fo upon this occafion. Prudence wiil make Bs define Fame, becaufeit gives us many real and great advantages in all the...his ends are his own good, and the good of fociety. You Poets and Orators have inverted this order; you propofeFame as theend, and good, or at leaft great... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1774 - 400 pages
...it. Your fentiment is true and natural: your reafoning, I am afraid, is not fo upon this occafion. Prudence will make us defire fame, becaufe it gives...his. ends are his own good, and the good of fociety. You poets and orators have inverted this order ; you propofe fame as the end ; and good, or at leaft... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 464 pages
...it. Your fentiment is true and natural ; your reafoning, I am afraid, is not fo upon this occafion Prudence will make us defire Fame, becaufe it gives...his ends are his own good, and the good of fociety. You Poets and Orators have inverted this order; you propofe •Fame as the end, and good, or at ieaft... | |
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