 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pàgines
...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 ;... | |
 | 1800 - 322 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Mrs. Pilkington (Mary) - 1804 - 276 pàgines
...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)... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pàgines
...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 ;... | |
 | 1806 - 330 pàgines
...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 diff 'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pàgines
...wou'd, One they must want, which is, to pass for good. HONOUR consists in ACTING our PART "well. (POPE.) 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... | |
 | T Nixon - 1806 - 176 pàgines
...adversity, without dejection, as for demolished temples the very ruins thereof are reverenced and adored. The virtue of prosperity is temperance. The virtue of adversity is fortitude. When we despond under the calamities of life, we reproach ourselves; their sting maybe sharp, but,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pàgines
...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 in men has some small difference made, 195 One flaunts in rags, one -flutters in hrocade; The... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 542 pàgines
...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 however... | |
 | George Gregory - 1808 - 352 pàgines
...on Man are the delineations of character, and of these there are none finer than the following : " 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, 193 " One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade... | |
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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... 
