 | Samuel Richardson - Maxims - 1755 - 428 pages
...only coniblaton which can weaken the force of worldly difappointments, iv. 171. [v. 42]. Adverfity is the trial of principle : Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honeft man, iv. 196. [v. 67]. Ill-news obliges us to look around us for confolation, iv. 233. [v. 104].... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1776 - 336 pages
...to thofe laws would be a fecurity to. me, againft ever again being feea in fuch company. Adverfity is the trial of principle : Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honeft man. Two things my coufin, in his prefent diffi. culties, muft guard againfl ; the one, that... | |
 | Gorges Edmond Howard - 1782 - 376 pages
...which lead us to expect what is not to be found, than from the miferies we daily encounter. Adverfity is the trial of principle ; without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honeft man. A wife man will bring his mind to bear inevitable evils, and to make a virtue of necefllty.... | |
 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...excels them all. To which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance. — Wm. Penn, ADVERSITY Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. — Sir Charles Grandison. • ' SPENCER AND SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. — Spencer was a stranger to Sir Philip... | |
 | 432 pages
...doing no harm and occasioning no trouhle to society. HE who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke. ADVERSITY is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is nn honest man. IF none were to reprove the vicious, excepting those who sincerely hate vice, there... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. — Burke. ADVERSITY TRIES us. — Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. — Fielding. ADVERSITY, WHAT IT TEACHES. — He that has never known adversity, is... | |
 | Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 pages
...unwillingness to place herself among his learned friends : — " Silence is the female's ornament." Adversity is the trial of principle ; without it a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. The Council of Trent treats the combatants who fall in a duel as self-murderers, and denies them Christian... | |
 | Burton Abbots - 1863 - 360 pages
...simples grow which cure the heartache."' HYPERION. " Strong reasons make strong actions." SHAKESPEABB. " Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not." THE morrow came — a pouring wet day. Cecil had a headache, and I persuaded her to... | |
 | Eliza Cook - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1865 - 216 pages
...ourselves most completely in our manner of praising. HE who comes from the kitchen smells of its smoke. ADVERSITY is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man. IF none were to reprove the vicious, excepting those who sincerely hate vice, there would be much less... | |
 | 1867 - 488 pages
...for six thousand years, and few have learned yet that their fellow beings are as good as themselves. ADVERSITY is the trial of principle ; without it a man hardly knows whether he is au honest mau. A CODNTBY editor, describing the bonnets now in fashion : " They have a downward slant... | |
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I should not account the debts incurred debts of honour; and should hardly scruple, had I not indirectly promised payment, by asking time for it, or had they refused to give it, to call in to my aid the laws of my country; and the rather, as the appeal... 
