| Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - English essays - 1714 - 382 pages
...— Hor. A Good Conference is to the Soul what Health ii to the Body: It preferves a conftant Eafe and Serenity within us, and more than countervails all the Calamities and Afflictions which can poflibly befal us. I know nothing fo hard for a generous Mind to get over as Calumny and Reproach,... | |
| 1797 - 550 pages
...GOOD confcience is to the foul what health is to the body ; it prefervcs a conftant eafe and ferenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can poffibly befal us. I know nothing fo hard for a. generous mind to get over as calumny and red This... | |
| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1803 - 228 pages
...future frown i How, ever and anon, awake the soul, As with ^ peal of thunder, to strange horrors ! A good conscience is to the soul what health is to...than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can befal us. No line holds the anchor of contentment so fast as a good conscience. This cable... | |
| Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...GOOD confcience is to the foul, what health is to the body; it preferves a conftant eafe and ferenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can poffibly befall us. I know nothing fo hard for a generous mind to get over, as calumny and reproach... | |
| 1804 - 498 pages
...13. mea Virtute me involve — HOR.3. Od.ixix. 54. Virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. DRYDEN. A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to...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... | |
| Children - 530 pages
...voice of Christ. 4 Practice increaseth knowledge. 5 Nothing is truly infamous but what is wicked. 6 A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body. 7 Leaders in sin are the worst of sinners. 8 Poverty wants some things, luxury many, 'but avarice all... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 374 pages
...1713. rirtute me involve— HOR. 3 Od. xxix. 54. —Virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. DRYDEN. A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to...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... | |
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