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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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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 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...
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The Guardian, Volumes 8-9

Conduct of life - 1857 - 904 pages
...stranger. German hospitality has become proverbial. "If a man be gracious to strangers, he shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is not an island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them." Their freedom from pomp and...
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Memorials of the Chaunceys: Including President Chauncy, His Ancestors and ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 402 pages
...and courteous to slrangers, 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 tree that...
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The pupil's manual of choice reading, arranged by T.B. Smith

Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...thing But sin — hath faculties unused. 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...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...The parta and signs of goodness are many. 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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Memorials of the Chaunceys: Including President Chauncy, His Ancestors and ...

William Chauncey Fowler - Puritans - 1858 - 384 pages
...no less his friend? 'If a man,' says Lord Bacon, ' 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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...The parts and signs of goodness are many. 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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Selections from Various Sources

Lydia Howard Sigourney - Commonplace-books - 1863 - 254 pages
...that; and therefore, he who perceives it, hath it not." " IF 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 shores, but a continent that joins them." Bishop Taylor. " SIR, 1 am a true...
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Beauties of Sacred Literature: A Compendium of Christian Doctrine, Faith ...

Christian life - 1864 - 704 pages
...The parts and signs of 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...
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Diamond Dust

Eliza Cook - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1865 - 216 pages
...intention of sin often betrays itself 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...
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