 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...thousand pounds a year. Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made,...flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. ' What differ more (you... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Noah Webster - Readers - 1809 - 202 pages
...CoxfEMprofthe common Objects of Puasuir. HONOR and shame from no condition rise ;• Act well yjnr part, there all the honor lies. Fortune in men has...made ; One flaunts in rags ; one flutters in brocade j The cobler apron'd, and the parson gown'd ; The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...Human Acquisitions. HONOUR and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies, Fortune in men has some small difference made,,...flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...thousand pounds a year. Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made,....flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade; The cobler apron'd, and the parson.gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...follies. On his garb indeed she has some little influence ; but his heart still remains the same : Fortune in Men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. II. Then, II. Then, as to NOBILITY, by creation or birth, thia too he shews [from 1. 19.5 to 207] is,... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 446 pages
...follies. On his garb indeed she has some little influence ; but his heart still remains the same : Fortune in Men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. ' « II. Then, II. Then, as to NOBILITY, by creation or birth, this too he shews [from 1. 195 to 207]... | |
 | 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... | |
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Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more," you cry, " than crown and cowl ?" I'll tell you,... 
