John WilkinsДжон Уилкинс
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
5. Старайся, чтобы в споре слова твои были мягки, а доводы тверды. Надо не досадить противнику, а убедить его.
5. In a dispute, try to keep your words soft and your arguments firm. The aim is not to vex your opponent but to convince him.
From A Discourse concerning a New Planet · close to the original (more).
Wilkins’s own words'Tis an excellent rule to bee observed in all disputes, That Men should give soft Words and hard Arguments, that they would not so much strive to vex, as to convince an Enemy.
Source text: github.comTolstoy’s own version · Путь жизниСтарайся, чтобы в споре слова твои были мягки, а доводы тверды. Старайся не досадить противнику, а убедить его.
Source text: tolstoy.ruDetails
The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. A Discourse concerning a New Planet (1640), 'To the Reader', The address to the reader before the second book of A Discourse concerning a New World & Another Planet (London, 1640); EEBO-TCP transcription A15364.
«Вилькинс» is John Wilkins (1614–1672), later Bishop of Chester, in the preface to the reader of his Copernican Discourse concerning a New Planet. The Jubilee name index identifies «Вилькинс» as George Wilkins (1785–1865), an English clergyman; that is wrong, as the words are John Wilkins's. Tolstoy's attribution itself is right. The rule is kept closely, its frame changed: 'an excellent rule to bee observed in all disputes, That Men should give soft Words and hard Arguments' becomes a counsel to the reader, 'Try that in a dispute your words be soft and your arguments firm'; 'that they would not so much strive to vex, as to convince an Enemy' becomes 'One must not vex one's opponent but convince him', so 'not so much … as' becomes a plain 'not … but', and the 'Enemy' an opponent (противнику). No printable, for the changed frame. English collections from the eighteenth century on reprint the sentence under 'Bishop Wilkins'; which one Tolstoy read was not found (not in the saved Southgate, Coit or Tileston). The Path of Life (1910) repeats it, its second sentence beginning 'Try' as well.