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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 essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ... - Page 46
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...The Parts and Signs of Goodnefs are many : If a Man be gracious and courteous to Strangers, it fhews he is a Citizen of the World ; and that his Heart...joins to them. If he be compaffionate towards the Afflidtions of others, it fhews that his Heart is like the noble Tree, that is wounded itfelf, when...
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A place of repentance; or, An account of the London colonial training ...

Samuel Martin - 1852 - 120 pages
...:,.... . • 7 A PLACE OF EEPENTANCE. " If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it snows 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 them. If he be compassionate toward the...
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Kidd's Own Journal, Volume 4

Arts - 1853 - 390 pages
...and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, — that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If a man be compassionate, it proves his heart to be like the noble tree which is itself wounded when...
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Popish Legends, Or, Bible Truths

Catherine Sinclair - Anti-Catholicism - 1852 - 424 pages
...usefulness. As Lord Bacon so truly observes, " if a man be gracious and courteous to others, 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." It is a very different thing to...
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The British Millennial Harbinger

Churches of Christ - 1852 - 588 pages
...ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. Lord Bacon beantifully said, " If a man be graeious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cnt off from other islands, bnt a continent that joins them." o THE first public act of the...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D ..., Volume 3

David Thomas - 462 pages
...THE parts and signs of 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 them ; if he be compassionate towards the...
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Characters in the Gospels: Illustrating Phases of Character at the Present Day

Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Bible - 1852 - 184 pages
...the good as well as the evil of others. In the noble language of Lord Bacon, his " heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." But, after all, the source of this superiority to the world lies in an internal and reserved power...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...and courteous to strangers, it shows he ie 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 ia like the noble tree that...
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The Illustrated Magazine, Volumes 19-20

Literature - 1865 - 740 pages
...on everybody. Lord Bacon beautifully observes : " If a man be gracious 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 them." After all, the true harmonizer of...
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Work; or, Plenty to do and how to do it

Margaret Maria Gordon - 1853 - 144 pages
...observations in his Essay upon goodness : — " If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shews 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...
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