 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pàgines
...soured by calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them ; for, said he, they are sparks, which if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves." And, says Cato, " We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise... | |
 | 1853 - 1036 pàgines
...calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them; 'for they are sparks,' said he, 'which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves." The town of Leyden erected a monument to his memory in St. Peter's church. BOERNE, LDDWIQ, was born... | |
 | Oliver Oldham - 1854 - 406 pàgines
...soured by calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them; for, said he, they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves." And, says Cato, " We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables' us to despise... | |
 | William Oland Bourne - 1854 - 350 pàgines
...to say that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. " They are sparks," said he, " which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to... | |
 | 1856 - 790 pàgines
...to say, that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. " They are sparks," he said, " which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to... | |
 | 106 pàgines
...used to say that he never thought it needful to repeat their calumnies ; 'they are sparks,' said he, 'which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing, and by prayer to... | |
 | 1870
...to say, that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. " They are sparks," said he, " which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, nnd by prayer to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1868 - 384 pàgines
...himself had enemies,) nor ever thought it necessary to confute them. " They are sparks," said he, " which if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. The surest remedy against scandal, is, to live it down by perseverance in well-doing; and by praying... | |
 | John Harrisson (M.R.C.S.) - 1869 - 118 pàgines
...calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to refute them, ' for they are sparks,' said he, ' which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.' His good temper, dignity, forbearance, and sympathy are qualities oftenest k "Spectator.'' ' " National... | |
 | E S. P - 1872 - 594 pàgines
...to say that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. " They are sparks," said he, " which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to... | |
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He was always cheerful, and desirous of promoting mirth by a facetious and humorous conversation; he was never soured by calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them; "for they are sparks," said he, " which if you do not blow... 
