 I believe them true : They argue no corrupted mind In him : the fault is in mankind. This maxim, more than all the rest, Is thought too base for human breast : " In all distresses of our friends, We first consult our private ends ; While nature, kindly...  The Congregationalist - Sayfa 610editör: - 1873Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 360 sayfa
...the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast : ' In all distresses of our friends, We first consult...your patience move, Let reason and experience prove. We all behold with envious eyes Our equals raised above our size. Who would not at a crowded show Stand... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 362 sayfa
...me throw my pen aside; If with such talents Heaven hath blest 'em, Have I not reason to detest 'em 1 To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts; but never to my friend: I tamely can endure the first; But this with envy makes me burst. Thus much may serve by... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 sayfa
...cases the rhyme is called ' treble.' The terminations are always unaccented. EXAMPLES. Double rhymes While nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please as. Aura, whose tongue you hear a mile hence, Talks half a day in praise of silence. Treble rhymes... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - 1868 - 194 sayfa
...the fault is in mankind. This maxim, more than all the rest, Is thought too base for human breast : ' In all distresses of our friends, We first consult...ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.' " See also Lord Chesterfield's defence of this maxim, Letter 129. CLIV. We often imagine that we love... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld, John William Willis Bund, James Hain Friswell - 1871 - 156 sayfa
...follow these lines : — "This maxim more than all the rest, Is thought too base for human breast ; In all distresses of our friends, We first consult...ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us." See also Chesterfield's defence of this in his I2gth letter ; ' ' they who know the deception and wickedness... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 516 sayfa
...the fault is in mankind, " This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast: ' In all distresses of our friends We first consult...ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.' " The paraphrase, as is common in paraphrases, is neither so terse nor so pointed as the original;... | |
 | François duc de La Rochefoucauld - 1875 - 196 sayfa
...the fault is in mankind. This maxim, more than all the rest, Is thought too base for human breast : ' In all distresses of our friends, We first consult...ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.' " CLIV. We often imagine that we love men i:l power ; but it is all interest at b ottom : we espouse... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1875 - 380 sayfa
...propriety of style ; the first of which perhaps was the fault of his age, and the last of his language. 7. To all my foes, dear Fortune, send Thy gifts, but never to my friend : I tamely can endure the first, But this with envy makes me burst. 8. That the three angles... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 sayfa
...the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest [4 thought too base for human breast : " To r 7 We all behold with envious eyes Our equals rais'd above our size. Who would not at a crowded show Stand... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 sayfa
...the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too baee for human breast : ' In all distresses of our friends We first consult...your patience move, Let reason and experience prove. We all behold with envious eyes Our equal raised above our size. Who would not at a crowded show *... | |
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