 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...babe look'd up— and sweetly ¡miled ' 318. EMPHÍSTS, in connection with the Rhetorical Pause. 1. A friend — cannot be known — in prosperity ; and an enemy cannot be hidden — in adversity. Passions— are wind}— to urge us o'er the wave, REASON — the rudder — to direct — or save.... | |
 | Karl Ferdinand Becker - 1845 - 390 pages
...others, wise men correct their own. When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we leave them. A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. A wise man will fear in every thing. Men are sometimes accused of pride, because their accusers would... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...the other three have the falling, and the second has the rising inflection. EXAMPLES. 1. h.friend' cannot be known'' in prosperity'; and an enemy'' cannot be hidden' in adversity*. 2. Flowers of rhetoric in sermons or serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn,... | |
 | 1872 - 676 pages
...them." . " By others' faults wise men correct their own." " To err is human ; to forgive, divine." " A friend cannot be known in prosperity ; and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity." о. в. в. Your correspondents are right in refusing to believe that the name of " Muriel " is obsolete.... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...villain. Millions a hero. TRERLE EMPHASIS. He raised a mortal to the skies, She drew an angel down. A friend cannot be known in prosperity ; and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. The difference between a madman and a fool is, that the former reasons justly from false data; and... | |
 | William Russell - 1851 - 392 pages
...merely double and triple contrasts. Thus, " Custom is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools." " A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity." » " Emphatic phrase," is the designation of a clause in which there are several peculiarly significant... | |
 | Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1851 - 140 pages
...other, but have immediate reference to the subject of discourse, they are separated by semicolons; as, A friend cannot be known in prosperity ; and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. Listen to the affectionate counsels of your parents; treasure up their precepts; respect their riper... | |
 | Maxims - 1852 - 242 pages
...justice to his merits, and relieve his modesty and effect his business without trouble or blushing. A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy...but a kind of traffic ; and it abides no longer than while such men can be useful to one another. It is a negociation, not a friendship, that has an eye... | |
 | Edward Higginson - 1853 - 560 pages
...and feeling is this addition, in the latter clause, to the well-known maxim of Solon in the first. " A friend cannot be known in prosperity, and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity. In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved; but in his adversity even a friend will depart."... | |
 | William Herbert - 1853 - 234 pages
...opposed to three other emphatic words, in the same sentence, the emphasis is called Treble. EXAMPLES. 1 . A friend cannot be known' in prosperity; and an enemy' cannot be hidden in adversity'. 2. The difference between a madman and a fool, is that the former' reasons justly', from, false' data... | |
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In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart. 
