 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Bookbinding - 1880 - 686 pages
...fawning assents of sycophants. It removes no just right from fear ; it gives no important truth to flattery ; it is, indeed, not only consistent with...fixed principle in order to give it any real value. An able man shows his spirit by gentle words but resolute actions. How often experience convinces us... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...manners wiiich is so honourable to the national character. BEATTIE. Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, removes no just right from fear; it gives up no important truth from flnttery; it is, indeed, not only... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - Success - 1883 - 426 pages
...or position that ought to be maintained. Blair well said that "gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...of 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... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Conduct of life - 1884 - 648 pages
...fawning assents of sycophants. It removes no just right from fear ; it gives no important truth to flattery ; it is, indeed, not only consistent with...fixed principle in order to give it any real value. An able man shows his spirit by gentle words but resolute actions. How often experience convinces us... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...good will of every beholder, titéele. GENTLENESS. DEFINITION OP. 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 no important truth to flattery; it is, indeed, not only consistent... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - Quotations, English - 1896 - 382 pages
...ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion. — AUERBACH. Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of sycophants. — BLAIR. Gifts — Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those... | |
 | Mormon Church - 1898 - 432 pages
...surroundings, as proof of treasonable designs or wicked propensities. (To be Continued.) True gentleness is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning accent of syc.v phants. It sacrifices no just right from fear; it is not only consistent with u firm... | |
 | Mormons - 1899 - 492 pages
...a flow of joy into the heart of the giver, which is worth many a material benefit. True gentleness is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit...of cowards and the fawning assent of sycophants It sacrifices no just right from fear; it is not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily... | |
 | American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - Animal welfare - 1899 - 340 pages
...wanton cruelty. — [Humanity confirmed into a uniform habit, is termed] GENTLENESS. Genuine gentleness is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of hypocrites. It renounces no just right from fear ; it gives up no important truth from flattery. It... | |
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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... 
