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" A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to the body : it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us. "
The British Essayists: Guardian - Page 68
edited by - 1823
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The Guardian, Volume 2

Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1714 - 382 pages
...— Hor. A Good Conference is to the Soul what Health ii to the Body: It preferves a conftant Eafe and Serenity within us, and more than countervails all the Calamities and Afflictions which can poflibly befal us. I know nothing fo hard for a generous Mind to get over as Calumny and Reproach,...
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A Collection of Select Aphorisms and Maxims: With Several Historical ...

Charles Palmer (Deputy Serjeant of the House of Commons.) - 1748 - 342 pages
...good confcience is to the foul, what health is to the body j it preferves a conftant eafe and ferenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can pofTibly befal us. 1478. He that needs leaft, feid Socrates, is moil like the Gods, who need nothing....
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The Guardian, Volume 2

1797 - 550 pages
...GOOD confcience is to the foul what health is to the body ; it prefervcs a conftant eafe and ferenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can poffibly befal us. I know nothing fo hard for a. generous mind to get over as calumny and red This...
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The Hive: Or, A Collection of Thoughts on Civil, Moral, Sentimental and ...

1803 - 228 pages
...future frown i How, ever and anon, awake the soul, As with ^ peal of thunder, to strange horrors ! A good conscience is to the soul what health is to...than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can befal us. No line holds the anchor of contentment so fast as a good conscience. This cable...
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The School of Wisdom

1803 - 250 pages
...GOOD confcience is to the foul, what health is to the body; it preferves a conftant eafe and ferenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can poffibly befall us. I know nothing fo hard for a generous mind to get over, as calumny and reproach...
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The Guardian, Volume 2

1804 - 498 pages
...13. mea Virtute me involve — HOR.3. Od.ixix. 54. Virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. DRYDEN. A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to...the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us. I know nothing so hard for a generous mind to get over as calumny and reproach, and cannot...
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The Youth's Magazine; Or, Evangelical Miscellany

530 pages
...voice of Christ. 4 Practice increaseth knowledge. 5 Nothing is truly infamous but what is wicked. 6 A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body. 7 Leaders in sin are the worst of sinners. 8 Poverty wants some things, luxury many, 'but avarice all...
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The British Essayists, Volume 18

Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 374 pages
...1713. rirtute me involve— HOR. 3 Od. xxix. 54. —Virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. DRYDEN. A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to...the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us. I know nothing so hard for a generous mind to get over as calumny and reproach, and cannot...
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The Hive: Or, A Collection of Thoughts on Civil, Moral, Sentimental and ...

1810 - 234 pages
...anon, awake the soul, As with a peal of thunder, to strange horrors ! A good conscience is to the soid what health is to the body. It preserves a constant ease and serenity within ns, and more thaa countervails all the calamities and aulictions that can befal us. IVo line holds...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 5

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 pages
...inclination to be Evites. " I am, sir," &c. No. 135. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15. • med Virtute me involvo— Hon. A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to...the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us. I know nothing so hard for a generous mind to get over as calumny and reproach, and cannot...
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