 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 דפים
...for an impudent man not to rise in the world ; but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced, than the greatest qualifications without it. The reply of Titus Tacitus to Metellus : " It is easy to speak against me when I make no answer; you... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1853 - 376 דפים
...MICHELET, Histoire de la Revolution, ii. 339, 342. t "A moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. The first necessary qualification of an orator is impudence, and, as Demosthenes said of action, the... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1853 - 374 דפים
...MICHELET, IliiMre de la Revolution, ii. 339, 342. t "A modélate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. The first necessary qualification of an orator is impudence, ana, as Demosthenes said of action, the... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1853 - 380 דפים
...MICHELET, Histoire de la Révolution, ii. 389, S42. t "A moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. The first necessary qualification of an orator is impudence, and, as Demosthenes said of action, the... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 דפים
...squeezed to death, and sees a thousand get in before him that don't make so good a figure as himself. If this letter is impertinent, it is founded upon...my interest to believe (as I do) that you deserve everything, and are capable of everything ; but nobody else will believe it if they see you get nothing.'... | |
 | William Chambers - 1859 - 600 דפים
...squeezed to death, and sees a thousand get in before him that don't make so good a figure as himself. If this letter is impertinent, it is founded upon...my interest to believe (as I do) that you deserve everything, and are capable of everything ; but nobody else will believe it if they see you get nothing.'... | |
 | lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1865 - 278 דפים
...squeezed to death, and sees a thousand get in before him that don't make so good a figure as himself. If this letter is impertinent, it is founded upon...my interest to believe (as I do) that you deserve everything, and are capable of everything; but nobody else will believe it if they see you get nothing.'... | |
 | 1868 - 992 דפים
...for an impudent man not to rise in the world ; but a modest merit, with a large share of impudence, is more probable to be advanced than the greatest...my interest to believe, as I do, that you deserve everything, and are capable of everything; but nobody else will believe it if they see you get nothing."... | |
 | 1868 - 792 דפים
...for an impudent man not to rise in the world ; but a modest merit, with a large share of impudence, is more probable to be advanced than the greatest...my interest to believe, as I do, that you deserve everything, and are capable of everything; but nobody else will believe it if they see you get nothing."... | |
 | 1868 - 846 דפים
...for an impudent man not to rise in the world; but » modest merit, with a large share of impudence. is more probable to be advanced, than the greatest qualifications without it. If this letter is iuipertinent, it is founded upon an opinion of your merit, which, if it is a mistake, I woulc not be... | |
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I don't say it is impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world ; but a moderate merit, with a large share of impudence, is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it. If this letter is impertinent, it is founded... 
