 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...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 - Periodicals - 1854 - 588 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 bo compassionate, it proves his heart to be like the noble tree which is ittdf wounded when it... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 794 pages
...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,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1854 - 652 pages
...heirs of heaven. In this sense he was truly Lord Bacon's " citizen of the world — his heart no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." The great commandment, " Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself," was written upon his heart, and... | |
 | George Lewis Prentiss - Lawyers - 1855 - 598 pages
...described by Lord Bacon, were found in him. " 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...The parts and signs of goodness arc 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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 to them ; if he be compassionate towards... | |
 | 1857 - 298 pages
...rendering every man his due.— Aristotle. 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 hearts, but a continent that joins them. — Bacon. No person who possesses... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - Hawaii - 1856 - 372 pages
...your door. Lord Bacon, too, has beautifully said, 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. The friends with whom I have been... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...perfons. 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 is...joins to them. If he be compaffionate towards the Afflictions of others, it fhews that his Heart is like the noble Tree that is wounded itfelf when it... | |
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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. 
