 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...of good"• If a man be gracious and "ness. If a man be civil " courteous to strangers, " it shews he is a citizen " of the world, and that " his heart is no island cut " offfrom other lands, but " a continent that joins to ?' them; if he be compas" sionate towards the... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 pages
...gracious and courteous to strangers," says lord Bacon, in enumerating the parts and signs of goodness, " it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his...cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." Essay on Goodness and Goodness of Nature. — ED. the waiter, saying, " It is as bad as bad... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 892 pages
...If a man be gracious and courteous to strangen. il shows he is a citizen of the world, and that hi* 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 lite... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...that shall stand firm. 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,...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...that shall stand firm. 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,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...goodness. If a man he civil and courteous to strangers, it shews him a citizen of the world, whose heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them. If he be compassionate to the afflicted, it shews a noble soul, like the tree which is wounded when... | |
 | Exemplary and instructive biography - Biography - 1836 - 348 pages
...beautiful passage : — " The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man may 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 oiher lands, but a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 440 pages
...CHAPTER I.X1I. r' If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the woild, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." LORD BACON. GERTRUDE watched with some solicitude the meeting between her mother and Mr.... | |
 | 1837 - 860 pages
...a man be gracious and [No. 11. MARCH 15, 1837.— 2t/.] VOL. i. courteous to others, it shows that he is a citizen of the world ; and that his heart...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... | |
 | 1837 - 352 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, hut a continent that joins to them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows... | |
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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... 
