 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...human-kind, Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a Uiousand pounds a-year. Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobbler... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. III. — On the Pursuits of Mankind. HONOUR and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part — there all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made . One flaunts in rags— one flutters in brocade ; The... | |
 | 1820 - 784 pages
...miserably poor at his decease, that his remains were interred by subscription!— Reminding us, that •' Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part— there all the honour lies !" Alas ! we cannot, when thinking of Bill Stevens and Peter Corcoran, exclaim — " Heu pietas, heupriscafldes,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world." But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in moral is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the old Testament, adversity... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...190 Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear. Because he wants a thousand pound a year. Honour and shame from no condition rise : Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made 195 One flaunts in rags one flutters in brocade : The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 pages
...human-kind, \Vhose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part ; there all the honour lies. Fortune in Men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobler... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 pages
....Whose life is healthful , and whose conscience clear , Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. * Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part , there all the honour lies. Fortune in Men has some small différence niadc , One flaunts in rags , one flutters in brocade , The... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...human-kind, Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a-year. Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobbler... | |
 | 1821 - 398 pages
...half-pence, the pieces are small and the silver is good." — When we read in his Easay on Ad.versity, that " The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...half-pence, the pieces are small and the silver is good." — When we read in his Essay on Adversity, .that " The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth... | |
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The virtue of Prosperity is temperance, the virtue of Adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and... 
