 | John Bell - 1789 - 376 pages
...churches, courts, and kings, All that our rev'rence, joy, or hope create, Are the gay play -things of this infant state. Scarcely an ill to human life...belongs, But what our follies cause, or mutual wrongs ; 6 ETHIC EPISTLES. Epist. /. Or if some stripes from Providence we feel, He strikes with pity, and... | |
 | George Crabb - 1816 - 788 pages
...can give us ease ; The soul, nu Д£зси1ар1ап medicine can cure. GKMTLBMAN. Scarce); an III to human life belongs. But what our follies cause, or mutual wrongs ; Or If some stripe« from Providence we feel, He strike» with pHy, and but wounds to heal. JBHTICT. Every man... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pages
...busy-bodies create mischief. The misfortunes of the children cause great affliction to the parents ; Scarcely an ill to human life belongs, But what our follies cause, or mutual wrongs. JENYNS. Business occasions a person's late attendance at a place; ' The good Psalmist condemns the... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 736 pages
...an ill to human life belongs, llut » hat our follies cause, or mutual wrongs , Or if «one etiipos from Providence we feel, He strikes with pity, and but wounds to heal. Jcnyng. Every man has frequent grievances, which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...falling into crimes which would otherwise have been our utter abhorrence. No. 230.] APHORISMS. [SATURDAY. SCARCELY an ill to human life belongs But what our...feel, He strikes with pity, and but wounds to heal. Of all bad things with which mankind are curst, Their own bad tempers surely are the worst. Oh ! what... | |
 | Thomas Whittemore - 1830 - 492 pages
...friend ! Who forming by degrees to bliss, mankind, This globe our sportive nursery assigned. Scarce any ill to human life belongs But what our follies cause, or mutual wrongs, 4 Origin of Evil, Boiton edition, 68 — 71. 5 Puritanical Divines. Or if some stripes from Providence... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pages
...whenever the general mounted him, the word ran through the ranks, " We have business on hand." APHORISM. SCARCELY an ill to human life belongs, But what our...feel, He strikes with pity, and but wounds to heal. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD. As you value the approbation of heaven, or the shame of the world, cultivate the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 432 pages
...whenever the general mounted him, the word ran through the ranks, " We have business on hand." APHORISM. SCARCELY an ill to human life belongs, But what our...feel, He strikes with pity, and but wounds to heal. TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD. As you value the approbation of heaven, or the shame of the world, cultivate the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 440 pages
...whenever the general mounted him, the word ran through the ranks, " We have business on hand." APHORISM. SCARCELY an ill to human life belongs, But what our follies cause, or mutual wrongs j Or, if some stripes from Providence we feel, He strikes with pity, and but wounds to heal. TRUTH... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 pages
...ambition's tow'ring wings, The pomps of senates, churches, courts, and kings, All that our rev'rence, joy, or hope create, • Are the gay play-things of...heal ; Kindly perhaps sometimes afflicts us here, To ^uide our views to a sublimer sphere, In more exalted joys to fix our taste, And wean us from delights... | |
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Scarce any ill to human life belongs But what our follies cause, or mutual wrongs, Or if some stripes from Providence we feel, He strikes with pity, and but wounds to heal. 
