| Jayne Elizabeth Lewis - 1996 - 248 páginas
...'Tis a Sack-Posset, wherein the deeper you go, you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a Hen, whose Cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an Egg; But then, lastly, 'tis a Nut, which unless you chuse a Judgement, may cost you a Tooth, and pay you with nothing but... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1999 - 276 páginas
...best. 'Tis a sack-posset, wherein the deeper you go you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen whose cackling -we must value and consider because it is attended with an egg. But then lastly 'tis a nut, which unless you choose with judgment may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but... | |
| Immanuel Kant - 1999 - 706 páginas
...Essay on Man 3, 303-4. The reference to Jonathan Swift is to his Tale of a Tub: "Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg; but then lasdy, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with... | |
| Peter David Fenves - 2003 - 238 páginas
...in nuce: what Swift says of wisdom in genetal — "'tis a Nut, which unless you chuse with Judgment, may cost you a Tooth, and pay you with nothing but a Wovm"Hi - Kant applies to Jacques Mallet du Pan's countet-tevolutionaty wisdom, which is supposedly... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 2004 - 290 páginas
...best. 'Tis a sack-posset, wherein the deeper you go you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen whose cackling we must value and consider because it is attended with an egg. But then lastly 'tis a nut, which unless you choose with judgment may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but... | |
| Howard D. Weinbrot - 2005 - 412 páginas
...course dismisses these "momentous Truths" and knows that wisdom is far more than "a Nut, which . . . may cost you a Tooth, and pay you with nothing but a Worm" (p.66). We also sense that our complacency and our world are being threatened. What if the Modern narrator... | |
| Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 páginas
...deeper you go, you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and eonsider, because it is attended with an egg; but then lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. The true crities are known by... | |
| Jean-Pierre Saïdah - 2008 - 484 páginas
...'Tis a Sack-Posset, wherein the deeper you go, you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a Hen, whose Cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an Egg; But then, lastly ,tis a Aat, which unless you chuse with Judgment, may cost you a Tooth, and pay you with nothing hut... | |
| Samuel Drew - 1820 - 566 páginas
...consider, because it is attended with an egg. Lastly, it is a nut, which unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. TALE OF A TUB. REMARKS ON HAPPINESS. Мк. EDITOR, SIR, — If the following remarks gain a place in... | |
| Ohio Cultivator Vol.XVIII January 1,1862 No.1 - 1862 - 336 páginas
...produces it, therefore, should never be harmed." Wisdom is a nut, which, if not chosen with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. 1862.] [May, A Talk About Sheep. At the Mass. Legislative Agricultural Club Mr. Flint occupied the... | |
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