 | 1854 - 652 sider
...grace and heirs of heaven. In this sense he was truly Lord Bacon's " citizen of the world — his heart no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." The great commandment, " Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself," was written upon his heart, and... | |
 | 1918 - 490 sider
...annoyance they could inflict on it." SPENCER MONTAGUE. — "The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it...cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins a them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shews that his heart is like the... | |
 | 1918 - 428 sider
...or annoyance they could inflict on it." SPENCER MONTAGUE. "The parts and signs of goodness are many. If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it...cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins a them. If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shews that his heart is like the... | |
 | William Alexander Newman Dorland - 1919 - 202 sider
...the brotherhood of man. It was a great soul who eaid, "If a man be gracious to a stranger it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands." And John, courtesy may [92] be cultivated just like any other virtue — only the seed must be there.... | |
 | Hamilton Jewett Smith - 1926 - 204 sider
...citizen of the world as far as possible. . .' 1625. Francis Bacon, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature: 'If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers,...other lands, but a continent that joins to them.' 1647. John Cleveland, Satire on the Scots: They live as rovers and defy This or that place, rags of... | |
 | Hamilton Jewett Smith - 1926 - 298 sider
...citizen of the world as far as possible. . .' 1625. Francis Bacon, Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature: 'If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers,...other lands, but a continent that joins to them.' 1647. John Cleveland, Satire on the Scots: They live as rovers and defy This or that place, rags of... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves - 1927 - 264 sider
...rhetorical, but charged with understanding : If a man be gracious, and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands. ... If he easily pardons and remits offences, it shows that his mind is planted above injuries, so... | |
 | Gustav Ungerer - 1974 - 558 sider
...and courteous to strangers», he wrote in his Essay Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature, «it shows he is a citizen of the world and that his heart is...other lands, but a continent that joins to them.» In the second, Bacon applied himself to Perez as another «fit instrument» to extend his knowledge... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - 1996 - 620 sider
...'the weale of men'. For he subscribed to the view - immortalized by John Donne - that a good man's heart 'is no island, cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins them'. And he saw man's heart as a 'noble tree, that is wounded itself, when it gives the balm'.79... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sider
...Pimen, in Boris Codunov, prologue, set. 5, 1. 18-28 (1825), trans, by Philip L. Barbour(1953). Strangers of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist,... | |
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. 
