 | David Thomas - 462 pages
...delay. " 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...from other lands, but a continent that joins them ; if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1852 - 424 pages
...mutual usefulness. As Lord Bacon so truly observes, " if a man be gracious and courteous to others, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his...from other lands, but a continent that joins them." It is a very different thing to resist the temptations of life or to avoid them, and he who is accustomed... | |
 | Samuel Martin - 1852 - 120 pages
...:,.... . • 7 A PLACE OF EEPENTANCE. " If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it snows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is...from other lands, but a continent that joins them. If he be compassionate toward the ajfiictions ofotfiers, it shows that his heart is like the noble... | |
 | 1852 - 596 pages
...the canstic reply. Lord Bacon beautifully said: "If a man be gracious to Grangers, it shows he ¡ч a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island, cut off from other lands, bat a continent that joies them. Unjust riches corse the owner in getting, in keeping, and transmitting.... | |
 | 1853 - 390 pages
...GOODNESS If a man be gracious, and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, — that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If a man be compassionate, it proves his heart to be like the noble tree which is itself wounded... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1852 - 180 pages
...excellences of his own — the good as well as the evil of others. In the noble language of Lord Bacon, his " heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." But, after all, the source of this superiority to the world lies in an internal and reserved... | |
 | 1865 - 740 pages
...on everybody. Lord Bacon beautifully observes : " If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is...from other lands, but a continent that joins them." After all, the true harmonizer of the manifold dissonances of life, is a spirit of love and peace.... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1853 - 144 pages
...observations in his Essay upon goodness : — " If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shews he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is...cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them ; if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he ie a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island...cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart ia like... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...stand firm. The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, to them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like... | |
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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... 
