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" If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them... "
The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature - Page 136
1836
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pages
...goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a cbutinent that joins to them, — if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows...
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Beauties of Sacred Literature: A Compendium of Christian Doctrine, Faith ...

1864 - 704 pages
...goodness are many. If a man he gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them : if he be compassionate toward the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble...
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Diamond Dust

Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 pages
...by a superfluous caution. IP a man be gracious to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them. HE who has most of heart knows most of sorrow. THE mercy of men is to be just, the justice of...
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Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His ...

Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...[15] If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, [16] it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them: if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 pages
...many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and<£hat his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them'>7— if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it7 shows that his heart is like...
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Proceedings at the Banquet Held in Honor of Cyrus W. Field, Esq., of New ...

1868 - 88 pages
...future ages. Mr. Field is pre-eminently " an international man," a citizen of the world—" One whose heart is no island " cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins " to them." There is, therefore, a peculiar appropriateness in publishing this volume, which, while it is a tribute...
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Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pages
...are many. If a Man be Gracious, and Curteous to Strangers, it shewes, he is a Citizen of the World ; And that his Heart, is no Island, cut off from other Lands ; E but a Continent, that ioynes to them. If he be Compassionate, towards the Afflictions of others,...
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Thoughts for Times and Seasons

John Timbs - 1872 - 104 pages
...many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards the affections of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble...
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Literature of the English Language: Comprising Representative Selections ...

1872 - 660 pages
...goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble...
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The Essays of Lord Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble...
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