 Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness...  The Works of Hannah More - Page 175by Hannah More - 1830Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 496 pages
...Hannah More, in a poem on Sensibility. " Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist...And though but few can serve, yet all may please. О let the' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence ; To spread large... | |
 | 1839 - 428 pages
...truth.—Mrs, Sandford. IMPORTANCE OF TRIFLES. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs : Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save, or serve, but all can please: Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn, from hence, A small... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 pages
...ii. 24. Titus iii. 2. James iii. 17. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs, Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please, Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence A small unkindness... | |
 | M. S. - 1839 - 194 pages
...grace. ANON. TEMPER AS IT SHOULD BE. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please ; Oh ! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1839 - 204 pages
...to knock him down. — JOHNSON. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from foibles springs — Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please — Oh ! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small... | |
 | Hannah More - 1840 - 832 pages
...incense ! shall ascend to heaven ! Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys...ease. And though but few can serve, yet all may please ; О let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. To spread large... | |
 | George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...cruel of the two' Brief Rcmiirftcr. Since trifles make the sum of human things, Arid half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please ; Oh ! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small... | |
 | Book - 1841 - 164 pages
...unto the wind did call ; The gentle warbling wind low answered to all. fltljr Importantr of Slviflt B. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save, or serve, but all can please, — Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1841 - 372 pages
...our own sweet singers says — " Since trifles m;il;c the sum of human things, And half our miseries from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve,<but all may please; Oh ! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1849 - 316 pages
...each believes his own. Kindness. * 3. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles, springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please ; O, let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, — A. small... | |
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