 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1854 - 180 pages
...striking observations in his Essay upon Goodness : — " If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his...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... | |
 | 1854 - 794 pages
...own integrity and worth. LORD BACON beautifully said: "If a man be gracious to strangers, it stows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is...from other lands, but a continent that joins them." THE rum-bottle, says Douglass Jerrold, is Satan's crucible, in which he melts down all the line gold... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854 - 588 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 bo compassionate, it proves his heart to be like the noble tree which is ittdf wounded... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - 1855 - 598 pages
...thus described by Lord Bacon, were found in him. " If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his...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 - 1856 - 406 pages
...stand firm. 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...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.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...when bent. The parts and signs of goodness arc many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his...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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1856 - 372 pages
...your door. Lord Bacon, too, has beautifully said, 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. The friends with whom I have been sojourning, are eminently continental in their make and their manners.... | |
 | 1857 - 298 pages
...virtue of rendering every man his due.— Aristotle. 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 hearts, but a continent that joins them. — Bacon. No person who possesses either piety, grace, or... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...when bent. The parts and signs of goodness arc many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his...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... | |
 | 1857 - 904 pages
...be gracious to strangers, he shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is not an island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them." Their freedom from pomp and formality, and their unsuspecting, artlesa simplicity, enables them to... | |
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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... 
