 | Maxims - 1876 - 340 pages
...It is better to be of the number of those who need relief, than of those who want heart to give it. No object is more pleasing to the eye than the sight...agreeable to the ear as the voice of one that owns you for his benefactor. It is a good rule for every one who has a competency of fortune to lay aside a certain... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1881 - 524 pages
...please without adulation ; and is equally remote from an insipid complaisance and a low familiarity. 12. No object is more pleasing to the eye than the sight...agreeable to the ear as the voice of one that owns you for his benefactor. 13. There is scarcely a thinking man in the world who is involved in the business of... | |
 | 1897 - 176 pages
...bounty. Let a benefit be ever so considerable, the manner of conferring it is yet the noblest part. 4. No object is more pleasing to the eye than the sight...agreeable to the ear as the voice of one that owns you for his benefactor. 5. It is a good rule for every one who has a competency of fortune to lay aside a certain... | |
 | Abram N. Coleman - 1903 - 310 pages
...a benefit be ever so considerable, the manner of conferring it is yet the noblest part. Seneca. 45. No object is more pleasing to the eye than the sight...agreeable to the ear as the voice of one that owns you for his benefactor. Spectator. 46. It is a good rule for every one who has a competency of fortune to lay... | |
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No object is more pleasing to the eye, than the sight of a man whom you have obliged ; nor any music so agreeable to the ear, as the voice of one that owns you for his benefactor. 
