 Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.  Western Characters - Página 324por John Ludlum McConnel - 1853 - 378 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 páginas
...thy virtues, them on thee. Heav'n doth with us as we with torches do, Nut light them for themfclvcs : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits arc not finclytouch'd. But to fine ilTues : nor nature never lends The fmalleft fcrnple of... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1829 - 550 páginas
...Quhar) is no other than Qua re, or, due (ie KM) ea re. " Heav'n doth with us as we with torches deal, Not light them FOR themselves : FOR if our virtues...forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not." [ie Themselves not being the Cause of lighting them. If our virtues did not go forth of us, 't were... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 páginas
...place; the good of those to whom we stand related is the primary object intended. " Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do— Not light them for themselves...forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not." Your capacity for usefulness, therefore, is charged with an amount of obligation proportioned to its... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1893 - 702 páginas
...same truth to our minds, which was proclaimed by apostles and prophets ? — " Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves...forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not." If we truly have the light, we must, by a spiritual law, seek to diffuse it abroad. Two thoughts connected... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 páginas
...Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves...forth of- us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are notfinely touched, But to fine issues : nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 páginas
...which most men display, who are conscious of superior powers. GIFTS NOT OUR OWN. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves...forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.* Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 páginas
...which most men display, who are conscious of superior powers. GIFTS NOT OUR OWN. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves...forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.* Spirits are not finely tonch'd But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 páginas
...familiar friends : — " Heaven doth with us as we with torehes do ; CHAP. III.] STUDIES O!' SHAK3PERE. Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spiriu are not finely touch'd But to fine issues." " Reason thus with life : If I do lose thec, I do... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1851 - 282 páginas
...them both? Better is he that hideth his folly, than he that hideth his wisdom." " Heaven does with us as, we with torches do, — Not light them for themselves,...of us — 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched But for fine issues — nor Nature ever lends The smallest scruple of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 622 páginas
...afterwards says, " Lord Angelo is precue." Thyself upon thy virtues, they B on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves...forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest seruple of... | |
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