| John Bell - 1796 - 524 páginas
...190 Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a-yeat. 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, ipj One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ;... | |
| George Wright (author of The rural Christian.) - 1788 - 326 páginas
...invariable honours of true Wifdom, to the folid and •f- Honour and fhame from no condition rife, Aft well your part, there all the honour lies. Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow. P»PB. imprecations joys of Virtue and Goodnefs. Come and poffefs this breaft,... | |
| 1795 - 432 páginas
...crown'd. What differ more,, you cry, than crown and cowl ? I'll tell you, friend; a wise man and a fool. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with -strings, That thou may'st be by kings, or whores... | |
| 1797 - 614 páginas
...external form and appearance are of no consideration, in comparison with internal qualities. 'Jfhus, " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello." • But in applying this favourite maxim to forms of government, he appears to have beer, led away... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 páginas
...a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunello. Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings.... | |
| 1800 - 322 páginas
...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 cobler... | |
| Noah Webster - 1802 - 278 páginas
...fool. You'll find, if once the wise roan act* the monk, Or, cobler like the parson will be drunk ; Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck ov'r with titles and hung round with strings,"That thou may'st be by kings, or w —... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 páginas
...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 your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune hi Men has some small ciiirver.ee made, 19S One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ;... | |
| Mrs. Pilkington (Mary) - 1804 - 276 páginas
...attended with shame, when vice accompanies the actions of its possessor; for, as Mr. Pope justly observes, Honour and shame from no condition rise: Act well your part— there all the honour lies. PASSION AND ANGER. SEVn.MEKTS. It is much easier to check our passions in the beginning, than t* »toj)... | |
| Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 páginas
...find, if once the wise man acts the monk, Or cobler-like, the parson will be drunk ; Werth makes th6 man, and want of it the fellow* . . The rest is all but leather of prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, That thou mayst be by kings ; or ws... | |
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