 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...omens and prognostics. A rusty nail, or a crioked pin, shoot up into prodigies. — Addison. DCCXXXV. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. — Swift. DCCXXXVI. A man may be learned without talking sentences ; as in his ordinary gesture he... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Women and literature - 1857 - 432 pages
...performed in the same posture with creeping. Ill company is like a dog, who dirts those most whom he likes best. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public...eminent. Although men are accused for not knowing their oven weakness, yet, perhaps, as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes... | |
 | Richard Greene Parker - 1857 - 152 pages
...words, are sometimes blended so as to appear in pronunciation like a single word. Thus the sentence, " Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent," when it is read with a proper regard to the measure of speech, accent, emphasis, &c., will appear as... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...given us. Si. Evrtmand. CENSURE— the Tax paid by Eminent Men. Centrare, says an ingenious author, is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. It is a folly for an eminent man to think of escaping it, and a weakness to be affected with it. All... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...bold attempt, Turns wreaths of laurel back again to hemp. BCTLER. Miscellaneous Thoughts. CENSURE. CENSURE is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. SWIPT. CENSORIOUSNESS. IP a proneness to find faults is a very ill and mean thing, we are to remember... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Thoughts OH Various Subjects. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent Ibid. A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. Ibid. Not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in a hole.... | |
 | Charles McCarthy - 1868 - 222 pages
...brightest sunshine is attended by the darkest shade. So was it with Gregory. " Censure," says Swift, " is the tax a man "pays to the public for being eminent." The eminence of Gregory was too marked to justify the belief that he could escape paying a very heavy... | |
 | Charles McCarthy - 1868 - 222 pages
...brightest sunshine is attended by the darkest shade. So was it with Gregory. " Censure," says Swift, " is the tax a man "pays to the public for being eminent." The eminence of Gregory was too marked to justify the belief that he could escape paying a very heavy... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Thoughts on Various Subjects. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Ibid. A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. ibid. Not die here in a rage like a poisoned rat in a hole.... | |
 | Frank Parnell - Pastoral care - 1875 - 94 pages
...direct others, or exercise authority in any way, is sure to be criticised, and by some disliked. " Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping it, and a weakness to be affected with it." " Sufficient... | |
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Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind. POPE. ' CENSURE,' says a late ingenious author, ' is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. 
