 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...striking contrast : — to read them with the monotone would make them insipid and <1: rusting : — " What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools." " With passions unruffled, untainted by pride, By reason, my life let me square; The wants of my nature... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...laws, which first herself ordam'd Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 55 Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1832 - 204 pages
...a preposition, if the sentence were formed as the connexion would , lictate, it would he a circle. Whatever nature has in worth denied,. She gives in large recruits of needful pride. IVhatever—is a compound relative pronoun, equivalent in meaning ' to c,eery tJiing which. Thing,... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1833 - 150 pages
...go, — if not, send." " Of all the causes that conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and mislead the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, — the never failing vice of fools." RULES FOR READING. 1. Study your lesson attentively before you read it. 2. Never pass over a word without... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...be spoken. Take this couplet from Pope, and read it first with the metrical accent and tone, thus; What the weak head, with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Now let it be observed that in these lines there is really but one emphatic word, namely pride. If... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...lines. Thus, in the following lines: Of all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Here an injudicious reader will be very apt to lay a stress on the article... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...sense, and doubt their own ! 200 n. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, 205 She gives in large recruits of... | |
 | Frances Talbot Parker Countess of Morley - English fiction - 1835 - 388 pages
...immediately retired to her room, without exchanging any further conversation with Dacre. CHAPTER XII. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needless pride; For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1836 - 264 pages
...THOMPSON. SECTION III. On Pride. OF all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest...rules, Is pride ; the never failing vice of fools. WhateveY nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride! For, as in bodies,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...by the critics, ver. 026, fcc. ' Or all the causes which conspire to blind Man's er ring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride ; the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied. She gives in large recruits of needful... | |
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OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 
