Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts ; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty, and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds ; wherein, to derogate from none, the true heroic English gentleman hath... Sir Thomas Browne - Page 179by Sir Edmund Gosse - 1905 - 214 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 578 pages
...and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts ; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity,...none, the true heroic English gentleman hath no peer. PART THE SECOND. SECT. i. — Punish not thyself with pleasure; glut not thy sense with palative delights... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 576 pages
...and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts ; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity,...none, the true heroic English gentleman hath no peer. PART THE SECOND. SECT. i. — Punish not thyself with pleasure; glut not thy sense with palative delights... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1844 - 320 pages
...narrow and poltron friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity,...noble minds; wherein, to derogate from none, the true heroick English gentleman hath no peer. THE SECOND PART. I. Punish not thyself with pleasure; glut... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1844 - 240 pages
...narrow and poltron friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts ; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity,...noble minds ; wherein, to derogate from none, the true heroick English gentleman hath no peer. THE SECOND PAET. I. Punish not thyself with pleasure; glut... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 78 pages
...narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity,...none, the true heroic English gentleman hath no peer. PART II. ^ 1. — Punish not thyself with pleasure; glut not thy sense with palative delights, nor... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 412 pages
...of fuch breafts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, conftancy, fidelity, bounty, and generous honefty are the gems of noble minds; wherein, to derogate from none, the true heroick Englifh gentleman hath no peer. PART II. UNISH not thyfelf with pleafure; glut not thy fenfe... | |
| sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 1046 pages
...warriors. — friendsliip. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts ; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity,...none, the true heroic English gentleman hath no peer. PAET THE SECOND. SECT. i. — Punish not thyself with pleasure ; glut not thy sense with palative delights... | |
| Sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 572 pages
...warriors. — Dr. J. friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts ; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity,...none, the true heroic English gentleman hath no peer. PAET THE SECOND. SECT. i. — Punish not thyself with pleasure ; glut not thy sense with palative delights... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 870 pages
...FATHER'S ANABASIS ; AND THE DIFFERENT TEMPERS OF AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN AND A WILD SHEEP OF CORSICA. Bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity,...noble minds ; wherein (to derogate from none) the true heroick English Gentleman hath no peer. — SIR THOMAS BROWNE. La domesticity n'a en aucune influence... | |
| John Wood Warter - 1861 - 250 pages
...GooJ Hujbandry. " Bright Thoughts, clear Deeds, Conftancy, Fidelity, Bounty, and generous Honefty, are the Gems of noble Minds : wherein, to derogate from none, the true heroic Engli(H Gentleman hath no Peer." SIR T. BROWNE'S Chriftian Morals, I. xxxvi. " A good and charitable... | |
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