 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...from other lands, hut a continent that joins to them : if he he compassionate towards the affections of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it give« the balm : if he easily pardons and remits offences, it shows that his mind is planted above... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...of goodness are many. If a man he gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off'...easily pardons and remits offences, it shows that his mind is planted above injuries, so that he cannot be shot : if he be thankful for small benefits, it... | |
 | James Northcote - 1833 - 334 pages
...you inflict on those whose misfortune it has been to have only touched you." APPLICATION. If a man be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree in the Fable ; but is it not much better to expose oneself to ingratitude than to be wanting to the... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...have less affinity than violence and reflection." — " If a man be compassionate," says Lord Bacon, " towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree which is wounded itself when it gives the balm." A person should avoid the two extremes of sensibility... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to 'strangers, it shews he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off...from other lands, but a continent that joins to them j if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shews that his heart is like the noble... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...goodness. If a man he civil and courteous to strangers, it shews him a citizen of the world, whose heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them. If he be compassionate to the afflicted, it shews a noble soul, like the tree which is wounded... | |
 | Anne Parker - 1835 - 302 pages
...by the wounds you inflict on those whose misfortune it has been to have only touched you." If a man be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree in the fable ; but is it not much better to expose oneself to ingratitude than to be wanting to the... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1835 - 598 pages
...with which he comforted the cast down, and bound up the broken heart — his own heart was indeed " like the noble tree, that is wounded it'self when it gives the balm," and it was this which made his ministrations so precious to the afflicted. To such, it is hoped, the... | |
 | William Howels - 1835 - 492 pages
.../ if, he comforted the cast down, and bound tip the broken hetart-rhis owft heaa&wjw.wteei-.'/rlite the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm," and it was this which made bis ministrations so precious to the afflicted, To such, it is hoped the... | |
 | 1836 - 440 pages
...CHAPTER I.X1I. r' If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the woild, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." LORD BACON. GERTRUDE watched with some solicitude the meeting between her mother and Mr. Lyndsay, as... | |
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The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them... 
