 | Catherine Sinclair - 1852
...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... | |
 | William Kidd - Nature - 1853
...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... | |
 | Samuel Martin - 1852
...:,.... . • 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... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Bible - 1852 - 163 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853
...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... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Knowles - 1865
...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... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1853
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854
...The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows set upon my island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1854
...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 bo compassionate, it proves his heart to be like the noble tree which is ittdf wounded when it... | |
 | William Peter Strickland - Literary Criticism - 1854
...own integrity and worth. LORD BACON beautifully said: "If a man be gracious to strangers, it stows 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." THE rum-bottle, says Douglass Jerrold,... | |
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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. 
