 | Beauties - 1791 - 214 pages
...foe of God and man, thou dcgradest human honour and blastest the opening prospects of human felicity. Diligence, industry, and proper improvement of time are material duties of the young. To no purpose arc they endowed with the best abilities, if they want activity for exerting them. Unavailing,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...then on trash thy hopes to bind ; Let nobler views engage thy mind. DR. JOHNSON. SELECT SENTENCES. DILIGENCE, industry, and proper improvement of time, are material duties of the young. The acquisition of knowledge, is one of the most honourable occupations of youth. A temperate spirit,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 542 pages
...birthright for a savory mess of potage. A regular and virteous education, is an inesteemable blessing. Honor and shame from no condition rise: Act well your part; there, all the honor lies. The rigor of monkish disciplin often conceals great depravity of heart. We should recollect, that however... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1808 - 178 pages
...birthright for a savor}' mess of pottage. A regular and virteous education, is an inesteemable blessing. Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part ; there all the honor lies. The rigor of monkish disciplin often conceals great depravity of heart. We should recollect, that however... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1808 - 474 pages
...man, thou degradest human honour, and blastest the opening prospects of human felicity. • • » VI. DILIGENCE, industry, and proper improvement of time, are material duties of the young. To no purpose are they endowed with the best abilities, if they want activity for exerting them. Unavailing,... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1810 - 182 pages
...fers dignity on the man, but a man of excellence will ever give respectability to any situation. , " Honor and shame from no condition rise, " Act .well your part there all the honor lies** LIX. Men of small size, and men of little minds are so anxious to secure their dignity from insult,... | |
 | United States - 1811 - 676 pages
...from Maryland (Mr. Wright) in defending the character of the foldier hath given us a quotation, viz. " Honor and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honor lies ;" I will give him another from the fame authority, viz. " A wit's a feather, a chiePs a rod, [-uritneta... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1812 - 224 pages
...birthright for a savory mess of pottage. A regular and virteous education, is an inesteemable blessing. Honor and shame from no condition rise : Act well your part ; there, all the honor lies. The rigor of monkish disciplin often conceals great depravity of heart. We should recollect. that however... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...intellectual endowments, it the only object of a solid and lasting esteem. Seed. INDUSTRY A DUTY OF THE YOUNG. DILIGENCE, industry, and proper improvement of time, are material duties of the young. To no purpose are they endowed with the best abilities, if they want activity for exerting them. Unavailing,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...READER.» PART I, PIECES IN PROSE. , CHAPTER I. SELECT SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS. SECTION if I-/ILIGENCE, industry, and proper improvement of time, are material duties of the young. The acquisition of knowledge is one of the most honourable occupations of youth. Whatever useful or... | |
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Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 
