| 1878 - 540 pages
...indulgent to the faults of some of them. He has not forgotten the rule de mortuis nil nisi bonum: " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind." It is sad to contemplate in bow many instances the fatal vice of intemperance (of which we get some... | |
| John Hookham Frere - 1874 - 446 pages
...would apply to the present French rulers (particularly BARRAS and REWBELL) the words of the poet:— " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their ways be unconfined And clap the padlock on their mind !"— And for these reasons, thanking... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1875 - 168 pages
...beau, and treated old John Bull too much as the poet advises us to treat young and fair ladies — Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind. But what a charming book is that old ' Sketchbook.' And what a charming essay that on our great Abbey,... | |
| William Samuel Wilson - 1880 - 316 pages
...normal state of society. The wisest and most humane rule for a traveller towards his companions is to ' Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind,' and to consider all that is said and done on board ship like what passes among the members of a club,... | |
| Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 786 pages
...had been under a thousand obligations of the first magnitude " let us, as houe-t Mat Prior hath it: Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues, very kind. These people gave our bard pecuniary help in the bringing out of his work, besides subscribing for... | |
| Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 pages
...would apply to the present French rulers (particularly Barras and Eeubel) the words of the poet — ' Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their ways be unconfined, And clap the padlock on their mind !' And for these reasons, thanking... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1889 - 746 pages
...useless task of extenuating their shortcomings, but will venture the suggestion that if the couplet, " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind," is to be departed from in their case, and they are all to be stoned by the rest of their fellow-citizens... | |
| Anti-Jacobin - 1890 - 424 pages
...would apply to the present French Rulers (particularly BAKRAS and REUBEL) the words of the poet :— " Be to their Faults a little blind ; " Be to their Virtues very kind, " Let all their ways be unconttn'd, " And clap the Padlock on their mind ! " And for these reasons,... | |
| Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1893 - 706 pages
...them for the madness which you have occasioned ? Kather let prudence and temper come from this side. ' Be to their faults a little blind ; Be to their virtues very kind.' " At this time, when Pitt was declining office, Lord Temple writes from Stowe to Mr. Mackenzie (Oct.... | |
| Harvard Law School. Association (1886- ). Meeting - 1895 - 110 pages
...Harvard. He had but one motto, which he universally applied in his treatment of the vmdergraduates : — " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, And clap the padlock on the mind." And when from there I proceeded to the Law School, a similar state... | |
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