| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 páginas
...made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1833 - 404 páginas
...diffusion of useful knowledge ? If one of our best moral poets declared, that "he would not enter, on his list of friends, though graced with polished manners...sense, the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm," what would be his estimate of the man who derived one of his chief gratifications, day after day, from... | |
| Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 páginas
...species, or towards any part of the Creator's works, are evinced by the following striking lines: — * I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush... | |
| Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 páginas
...species, or towards any part of the Creator's works, are evinced by the following striking lines. " I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush... | |
| 1835 - 440 páginas
...species, or towards any pan of the Creator's works, are evinced by the following striking lines— "I would not enter on my list of friends. Though graced with polished manners and fine souse, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may... | |
| the christians - 1836 - 426 páginas
...dignity of his professed character as a disciple of the Saviour, or even as a native of Britain : — " I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." Mr. Egerton Smith's " Dream'1... | |
| 1837 - 276 páginas
...to the bee, that poets, the worst entomologists in the world, have led us astray. Cowper says, " I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine cense, ****** the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." By u-arm, we wonder if he included the... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1838 - 690 páginas
...diffusion of useful knowledge ? If one of our best moral poete declared, that " he would not enter, on his list of friends, though graced with polished manners...sense, the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm," what would be his estimate of the man who derived one of his chief gratifications, day after day, from... | |
| Caroline Howard Gilman - 1838 - 290 páginas
...aged 24. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." CHAPTER IX. THE BOAT-SONG. TRIALS. " 1 would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Vet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm."... | |
| M. S. - 1839 - 194 páginas
...when the work by Thee is done, Accept its incense through thy Son. B. BARTON. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush... | |
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