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A Plea for Spelling Reform: A Series of Tracts Comp. from the Phonetic ... - Page 5
edited by - 1878 - 326 pages
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The Belfast Monthly Magazine, Volume 7

1811 - 538 pages
...and observe the dreadful effects of attempting the work of reformation. The false and slaTJsh maxim, that it is «' Better to bear the ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of." is held out to us in terrorem, as if it were better to bear acturil, certain,...
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Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, Volume 125

1819 - 728 pages
...will be and should be generally read. Frorn its warning page* will be learned the important lesson, that it is better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others we know not of. A« t'i , our Author, after undergoing every privation and suffering, subsisting on...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 152

Great Britain - 1832 - 728 pages
...space for such subjects. The question on the Bank Charter resolves itself into another, — whether it is " better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of." This author, who we have reason to believe is one who lately alarmed our war-department...
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The Life of William Roscoe, Volume 2

Henry Roscoe - 1833 - 404 pages
...and observe the dreadful effects of attempting the work of reformation. The false and slavish maxim that it is ' better to bear the ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of," is held to us in terrorem, as if it were better to bear actual, certain, and...
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The British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and ..., Volume 16

1834 - 512 pages
...insurmountable difficulty and endless toil, but also of extreme danger; it is often far more prudent— " to bear the ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of." We can congratulate the ministers that they have found a point to which the spirit of reform can advantageously...
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The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volume 11

Phrenology - 1838 - 478 pages
...of the present state of things may be ready to quote those much-abused words of Shakspeare, and say that " It is better to bear the ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of." But of how much evil an obedience to this maxim would be productive ! Everything...
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The Phrenological Journal, and Magazine of Moral Science, Volumes 11-12

1838 - 908 pages
...of the present state of things may be ready to quote those much- abused words of Shakspeare, and say that " It is better to bear the ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of." But of how much evil an obedience to this maxim would be productive! Everything...
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The Millennial Harbinger, Volume 2

Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1838 - 540 pages
...life a blessing, and cling to it maugre all its troubles." And what is this but to say with the poet, "It is better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of"? — virtually making the love of life the choice of evils. "To be, or not to...
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A Discussion of the Doctrines of the Endless Misery and Universal Salvation ...

Alexander Campbell - Future punishment - 1840 - 438 pages
...a blessing, and cling to it maugre all its troubles." And what is this but to say with the poet, " It is better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of?"- — virtually making the love of life the choice of evils. " To be, or not to...
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Belgium, Volume 2

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Belgium - 1841 - 324 pages
...assailed, by their dupes and victims. Belgium has, years ere this, discovered the truth of the maxim, that it is — " — better to bear the ills we have, Than fly to others we know not of." If, under the successive sovereignties of Austria and France, and as an integral VOL....
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