 | Philander Priestley Claxton, James McGinniss - 1917 - 592 páginas
...call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. — Dr. Johnson. 2. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Swift. 3. I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls its burial ground ' God's acre.' — Longfellow,... | |
 | Florine Kalkühler - 1920 - 64 páginas
...charakterisiert diese Nörgeler in den „Thoughts on various Subjects" mit den Worten3): „Men who posses all the advantages of life, are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose them but few to please them". Diese gallige Nörgelsucht zeigt sich bei Swift selbst im „Holyhead... | |
 | Francis Neilson, Albert Jay Nock - 1922 - 632 páginas
...love only individuals, I hate and detest that animal called man. When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. The merriest countenances are in mourning-coaches. No wise man ever wished to be younger. A very little... | |
 | 1920 - 456 páginas
...truth that has made the expression one of the oft-quoted passages from his works, "When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign — that all the asses are in confederacy against him." Dr. Green had to struggle on in spite of opposition,... | |
 | Gustav Wendt - 1923 - 188 páginas
...To travel by rail, water, steamer; to work by day (at night), by moonlight. — When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Anne was the second daughter of King James, by his first wife. — To appear by deputy, by proxy.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 páginas
...with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors. When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,...to disorder and discompose, but few to please them. 'Tis unwise to punish cowards with ignominy; for if they had regarded that, they would not have been... | |
 | David Graham - 1925 - 380 páginas
...like to know the name of the author before delivering their judgment as to the author of the book ! know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." 1 If this be true it will follow that there is nothing for it but that the genius should boldly discover... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 páginas
...THE eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow. Ibid. WHEN a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign,...that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Swift, III, 395. GENIUS is at first shy and taken up with itself. The new world of thought or enterprise... | |
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. 
