 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
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 200 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...some circumstance to please us." If this perhaps your pattence move, Let reason and experience prove. We all behold with envious eyes Our equals raised above... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 sayfa
...onr friends, We first consult our private ends ; \Vliilo nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points ont some circumstance to please us." If this perhaps your patience move, Let reason and experience prove. Wo all behold with envions eyes Our equals raised above onr size : Who would not at a crowded show... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 518 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...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... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 sayfa
...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 equal raised above our size. I love my friend as well as you ;... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 sayfa
...thus comments upon it : 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." And he goes on to defend the truth of the maxim by pointing out that as the value we set on our powers,... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 sayfa
...and thus comments upon it: This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast: " d. Essay on Man. D'Israeli has discovered another...verses," he says, " will not the reader smile that I And he goes on to defend the truth of the maxim by pointing out that as the value we set on our powers,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 508 sayfa
...quelque chose qui ne nous de'plait pas.'" The following verses were perhaps in Johnson's thoughts : — We first consult our private ends ; While Nature kindly...ease us Points out some circumstance to please us. * * * * Yet should some neighbour feel a pain Just in the parts where I complain ; How many a message... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 492 sayfa
...him ? Will Genius change his sex to weep 7 ? I would really have his life written with diligence 8. While Nature kindly bent to ease us Points out some circumstance to please us." ' SWIFT. On the Death of Dr. Swiff. Works, ed. 1803, xi. 240. 1 Pioxzi Letters, i. 398. This letter... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1899 - 340 sayfa
...troublesome and useless." It was perhaps his " best friends " that Swift had in mind when he wrote : — " In all distresses of our friends We first consult...ease us Points out some circumstance to please us." His false friends he goes on to attack in the following lines : — " By innocence and resolution He... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1899 - 350 sayfa
...troublesome and useless." It was perhaps his " best friends " that Swift had in mind when he wrote : — " In all distresses of our friends We first consult...ease us Points out some circumstance to please us." His false friends he goes on to attack in the following lines : — " By innocence and resolution He... | |
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