 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 ページ
...know their virtues. — Sir P. Sidney. VIRTUES AND VICES. — All the virtues that have been ever in mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap. VIRTUOUS, BIOGRAPHY OF THE. — There is no part of history which... | |
 | 1856 - 374 ページ
...Without regard to use or symmetry. Stillingleet CCCCLXXXIX. All the virtues that have been ever in mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap. The utmost a poor poet can do, is to get by heart a list of the cardinal... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1857 - 432 ページ
...diseases are by thousands, besides new and daily additions : so all the virtues, that have been ever in mankind, are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap. Now the utmost a poor poet can do, is to get by heart a list of the... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1857 - 222 ページ
...own defence." — " All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few ringers, but his follieB and vices are innumerable." Is not mankind, in this place, a noun of multitude, and euch as requires the pronoun referring to be in the plural number, their ? " The peasantry goes barefoot,'.'... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1857 - 348 ページ
...as when you was here. That elderly man, he that came in late, I supposed to be the superintendent. All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fm: gers, but his follies and vices are innumerable. It must indeed be confessed that a lampoon or... | |
 | Roswell Chamberlain Smith - 1859 - 222 ページ
...this manner ?"' " There is indeed no constitution so tame and careless of their own defence." — " AH the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few...not mankind, in this place, a noun of multitude, and such as requires the pronoun referring to be in the plural number, their ? " The peasantry goes barefoot,"... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1860 - 354 ページ
...as when you were here. That elderly man, Mm that came in late, I supposed to be the superintendent. All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers ; but their follies and vices are innumerable. It must indeed be confessed, that a lampoon or a satire does... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1862 - 326 ページ
...as when you were here. Thai elderly man, him that came in late, I supposed to be the superintendent. All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers; but their follies and vices are innumerable. There were more persons than one engaged in this affair. It... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1865 - 350 ページ
...as when you was here. That elderly man, he that came in late, I supposed to be the superintendent. All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fin gers, but his follies and vices are innumerable. It must indeed be confessed that a lampoon or... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1880 - 280 ページ
...The tongue is like a race-horse, which runs the faster the less weight it carries. — Addison. 23. All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon...fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable. — Swift. 24. No one can have lost their character by this sort of exercise in a confined circle and... | |
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... all the virtues that have been ever in mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable, and time adds hourly to the heap. 
