| John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...coolness, tho' he sung with fire,. His precepts teach but what his works inspire. Human Acquisitions. HONOUR and shame from no condition rise ; Act well...lies, Fortune in men has some small difference made,, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar... | |
| Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...humankind, Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because be wants a thousand pounds a year. Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well...lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made,. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobler apron'd, and the parson.gown'd, The friar... | |
| William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 pages
...shame poverty; therefore the good man should be rich. He tells them in this they are much mistaken : Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. What power then has fortune over the Man? None at all. For, as her favours can confer neither worth... | |
| William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...shame poverty; therefore the good man should be rich. He tells them in this they are much mistaken : Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. What power then has fortune over the Man? None at all. For, as her favours can confer neither worth... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...190 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...all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, 195: One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobler apron'd, and the parson... | |
| Arabella Argus - 1812 - 236 pages
...Mr.'' " Titles or names are nothing, my dear," said I, " unless accompanied by proper conduct." •* Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honour lies." " I know those lines," said my lord,^" and I suppose you know enough of Shakespeare to recollect what... | |
| Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 pages
...wife. O my farms ! what shall I do for my farms ! LXVI. Contempt of the common OBJECTS of PURSUIT. HONOUR and shame from no condition rise ; Act well...lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made ; One flaunts in rags ; one flutters in brocade ; The cobler apron'd,.and the parson gown'd ; The friar... | |
| 1814 - 786 pages
...customer from want of attention or civility, and has not left one who does not sincerely regret him : "Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part; there all the honour lies." Feb. 8. At Balnagown Castle, CO. Ross, in his 5?.d year, Lient.-gen. Sir Charles Ross, bart. In hitn... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1814 - 190 pages
...birthright for a savoury mess of pottage. A regular and virtuous education, is an inestimable blessing. Honour and shame from no condition rise : Act well your part ; there, all the honour lies. The rigour of monkish discipline often conceals great depravity of heart. We should recollect, that... | |
| Thomas Green Fessenden - 1818 - 192 pages
...stations — Be such as cannot fail in life's career, To make them useful in their proper sphere. " Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part there all the honour lies." •Tis folly then for one to crack his head Striving to hammer gold leaf out of lead, Nor greatef wisdom... | |
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