 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 386 pages
...permission. The poem, as it now stands in this cellection, is agreeable to Mr. Faulkner's copy. N. ** In all distresses of our friends, We first consult...ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us." If this perhaps your patience move, Let reason and experience prove. We all behold with envious eyes... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 558 pages
...X\\t They argue no corrupted mind Tn him ; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast : " In all distresses...ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us." If this perhaps your patience move, Let reason and experience prove. We all behold with envious eyes... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 pages
...argue no corrupted mind In him ; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thonght too base for human breast* * In all distresses of...ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.' If this perhaps your patience move, Let reason and experience prove. We all behold with envious eyes... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 262 pages
...brings examples to confirm his doctrine. He does. In order to prove, from reason and experience, that in all distresses of our friends we first consult our private ends, he argues, that, when our friend is NOT IN DISTRESS, but in an advantageous situation, we wish to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 pages
...no corrupted mind In him ; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought tuo base for human breast: " In all distresses of our...to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please n-.B If this perhaps your patience move. Let reason and experience prove. We all behold with envious... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 pages
...corrupted mini? In him ; tin: fault is in mankind. Tins maxim more than all the rest Is thought loo base, for human breast : " In all distresses of our...friends, We first consult our private ends ; While nal urc, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.™ If this prrliaps your... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...true: they argue no corrupted mind in him; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest is thought too base for human breast: " In all distresses...ease us, points out some circumstance to please us." If this perhaps your patience move, let reason and experience prove. We all behold with envious eyes... | |
 | William Somervile - 1811 - 312 pages
...fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest is thought too base for human breast: " In alj distresses of our friends, we first consult our private...ease us, points out some circumstance to please us." If this perhaps your patience move, let reason and experience prove. We all behold with envious eyes... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 832 pages
...stands in this collection, is agreeable to Mr. Faulkner's copy. N. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast : "In all distresses...friends, "We first consult our private ends ; While Wature kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us." If this perhaps your patience... | |
 | 1812 - 708 pages
...eternal, during interest ; Our foes implacable when worth their while." ' And has not another remarked, " In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends." ' SAVAGE. Your pardon, good doctor; these, I conceive, ' apply to nothing but the regviry of Mankind.... | |
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As Rochefoucault his maxims drew from nature, I believe them true: they argue no corrupted mind in him; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest is thought too base for human breast: " In all distresses of our friends, we first consult... 
