 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...lie as a burden on the species, and be the only useless parts of the creation. SPECTATOR, No. 583. A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 536 pages
...inclination to be Evites. " I am, sir," &c. No. 135. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15. Virtute me involve HOB. A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to the...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... | |
 | 1856 - 790 pages
...do with books as bees do with flowers ; gather sweets from them, and hive them up for future use. A GOOD CONSCIENCE is to the soul what health is to the body. It preserves it in serenity and peace, and sustains it in its struggles with adversity or affliction. Keep it at... | |
 | 1859 - 396 pages
...eyes, only so far removed as to compose the mind, without frightening it." N BREVITIES. BREVITIES. A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to the...calamities and afflictions which can possibly befall us. The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. None are so... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. Slmkspcare. A of the shower, and colour'd by the sun ; Which spans...J'ri/ice. RAINBOW-Philosophy of the. Nor ever yet con possibly befall us. I CONSCTENCE-A Good. The testimony of a good conscience will make the comforts... | |
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 pages
...never riding forwards. Of wild beasts, the slanderer bites the sorest; of tame beasts, the flatterer. A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the...preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and countervails all the afflictions that can befall us. c In peril or war, true love is the vein of gold,... | |
 | 1863 - 910 pages
...to a patient than to a troubled and miserable suffering. — Jeremy Taylor. A GOOD CONSCIENCE. — A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the...calamities and afflictions which can possibly befall us. — Addison. DEFINITIONS OF POLITENESS. — As to politeness, many have attempted definitions of it.... | |
 | 1865 - 786 pages
...arid sports of childhood, is tho only home of the human heart. — Lalic. A GOOD COXSCIKSC«. — A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body : it preserves a constant caso and serenity within us, and more than countervails all tho calamities and afflictions which can... | |
 | T. B. S. - 1866 - 312 pages
...the cargo, is in continual danger of being wrecked. — Dillwyn. ROM. vi. 23. A GOOD CONSCIENCE. A GOOD CONSCIENCE is to the soul, what health is to...preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, that more than countervail all the calamities and afflictions that can befall us. I know nothing so... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 524 pages
...inclination to be Evites, •" I am, sir," &e. No. 135. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15. Tirtute me involve • HOE. A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to the...the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us. I know nothing so hard for a generous mind to getover as calumny and reproach, and cannot... | |
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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. 
