 | 1856 - 766 páginas
...son of an eminent Turkey merchant." COMPASSION-. — If a man be compassionate towards the affliction of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm. — Bacon. NOTHIXO WITHOUT ns RESULT. — Each sin,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 páginas
...the world ; and that his heart is no island cut off from other lauds, but a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions...others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree, that is wounded itself when it gives the balm. If he easily pardons and remits offences, it shows that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 páginas
...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...others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree, that is wounded itself when it gives the balm. If he easily pardons and remits offences, it shows that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1822 - 238 páginas
...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...others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm : if he easily pardons and remits offences, it shows... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 436 páginas
...have less affinity than violence and reflection." — " If a man be compassionate," says Lord Bacon, " towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his...tree which is wounded itself when it gives the balm." A person should avoid the two extremes of sensibility and brutal indifference. The former is cruelty... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 páginas
...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...others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm : if he easily pardons and remits offences, it shows... | |
 | James Northcote - 1833 - 334 páginas
...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 páginas
...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...others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm. If he easily pardons and remits offences, it shows that... | |
 | Anne Parker - 1835 - 302 páginas
...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... | |
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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. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that... 
