 | Society of Friends - 1846 - 398 pages
...manners, always to assent and to comply is the very worst maxim we can adopt. True gentleness, therefore, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit and fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. It stands opposed to harshness and seventy, to... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness, therefore, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the .mean spirit...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. It stands... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...various occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness, therefore, which belongs to virtue is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...fixed principle in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only the polish of gentleness can, with advantage, be superinduced. It stands... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...various occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness, therefore, which belongs to virtue is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...fixed principle in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only the polish of gentleness can, with advantage, be superinduced. It stands... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...rotten timber for his pains ! GENTLENESS-Deflnition oí. Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is tv be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of syoo- , pbante. It removes no just right from fear : it gives up no important truth from flatter}-... | |
 | 1870 - 1172 pages
...fell into as gentle a slumber as might a tired and healthy child. GENTLENESS, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycoihants. It removes no just right from fear ; t gives up no important truth from flattery ; t is,... | |
 | John Williams (of Lancaster, O.) - English language - 1871 - 274 pages
...the earth was to be called (a) into existence. — Blair. 10. The gentleness which belongs to virtue is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and from the fawning assent of sycophants. — Blair. 11. There may be planets which are yet to be discovered.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...manners which is so honourable to the national character. BEATTIE. Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It removes no just right from fear; it gives up no important truth from flattery; it is, indeed, not only... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness, therefore, which belongs to virtue, t Cochrane( Upon this solid ground only the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. It stands... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...occasions, even though we should stand alone. That gentleness, therefore, which belongs to virtue, t, actuated by principles of true English liberty,...compared with those they suifered in their native land Upon this solid ground only the polish of gentleness can with advantage bo superinduced. It stands... | |
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That gentleness therefore, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed... 
