 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - Maxims - 1851 - 262 pages
...other men ; and it puts us, in general, more above them than birth, dignity, or even merit itself. 425. There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. 426. Elevation is to merit what dress is to a handsome person. 427. The quality least met with in gallantry... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...Rochefoucauld. ELEVATION is to Merit what Dress is to a handsome person. , — La Rochefoucauld. 'JHERE is Merit without Elevation, but there is no Elevation without some Merit. , — La Rochefoucauld. HTHE mark of extraordinary Merit is to see those most envious of it constrained... | |
 | Louis Fasquelle - French language - 1860 - 524 pages
...ménte. LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Quelques vains lauriers que promette la gueriv, On peut être héros sang ravager la terre. BOILEAU. There is merit without...promise, one may be a hero without ravaging the earth. ' (13.) Quelque having the sense of about or some or however, is invariable : Quel âge avez-vous ?... | |
 | Louis Fasquelle - French language - 1863 - 530 pages
...promette la guerre, On peut être héros sans ravager la terre. BOILEAU. There is merit without cleration, but there is no elevation without some merit. Whatever...promise, one may be a hero without ravaging the earth. (13.) Quelque having the sense of about or some or however, is invariable : Quel âge avez-vous ? Vous... | |
 | Louis Fasquelle - French language - 1863 - 530 pages
...tjutlqus mérite. LA BOCHEFODCADLD. Quelques vains lauriers que prornelte la guerre, On peut être héros sans ravager la terre. BOILEAU. There is merit without...elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. Wliatever vain laurels war may promue, one may be a hero without ravaging the earth. (13.) Quelque... | |
 | Quotations - 1890 - 270 pages
...else." Il ya du me'rite sans e'Uvation mats ilny a point d'e'ttvation sans quelque me'rite. (No. 401.) "There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit." La vieillesse est un tyran qui defend, sur peine de la vie, tous les plaisirs de la jeunesse. (No.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...their own. Churchill, CHARACTERISTIC OP. Elevation is to merit what dress is to » handsome person. There is merit without elevation ; but there is no elevation without some merit. Nature creates merit, and fortune brings it into play. La, Rochefoucauld. DISTINGUISHED. Whoe'er amidst... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - Quotations, English - 1896 - 382 pages
...receive sinners. — THE TALMUD. Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. — SHAKBSPEARE. flerit. — There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. — LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. Distinguished merit will ever rise to oppression, and will draw lustre from reproach.... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Maximes. 291. I II ya du mérite sans élévation mais il n'ya |K)int d'élévation sans quelque mérite. e sought. MILTON— Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 600. 21 Se moquer de la philosop LA ROCHEFOUCAULD — Maximes. 401. 3 By merit raised To that bad eminence. MILTON — Paradise Lost.... | |
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On peut être héros sang ravager la terre. BOILEAU. There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. Whatever vain laurels war may promise, one may be a hero without ravaging the earth. ' (13.) Quelque having the sense... 