 | Charles Palmer (Deputy Serjeant of the House of Commons.) - 1748 - 342 pàgines
...would be buried ? No matter, faid he, there is a fhort cut into the other world every where. 1584. It is the character of an unworthy nature, to write injuries in marble, and benefits in duft. 1585. The words of Lewis the twelfth of France mewed a great and noble mind ; who being advifed... | |
 | Mr. Addison - 1797 - 642 pàgines
...as in a civil fociety. HE who receives a good turn, mould never forget it, he who does one, fhould never remember it. IT is the character of an unworthy...nature, to write injuries in marble, and benefits in dull. H£ that preaches gratitude, pleads the caufe both of God and man, for without it we can neither... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1797 - 626 pàgines
...receives a good turn, mould never forget it, he who does one, fhould never remember it. IT is the charaQer of an unworthy nature, to write injuries in marble, and benefits in duft. HE that preaches gratitude, pleads the 'caufe both of God and man, for without it we can neither... | |
 | John Feltham - 1799 - 146 pàgines
...into masculine company, where it will be as hard to wedge in a word, as at a female gossipping. xxxvi. It is the character of an unworthy nature, to write injuries in marble, and benefits in dust. XXXVII. At table, the company should never exceed that of the Muses, nor be under the number of the... | |
 | 1803 - 228 pàgines
...mindful. Without good nature and gratitude, man had as well live in a wilderness as in a civil society. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it,...nature, to write injuries in marble, and benefits indust. He that preaches gratitude, pleads the cav.sc both of God Snd man ; for without it we can neither... | |
 | 1810 - 234 pàgines
...reward. It must be a due reciprocation in virtue that can make the obliger and the obliged worthy. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it ; he who docs one should never remember it. It is the character of an unworthy nature, to write injuries in... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...huffing, and swearing, any other then a more fashionable way of braying? — Sir R. L' Estrange. DCXI. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it. — Charron. DCXII. He that prolongs his meals, and sacrifices his time, as well as his other conveniences,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pàgines
...huffing, and swearing, any other then a more fashionable way of braying?—Sir R. L'Estrange. DCX1 He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember H—Charron. DCXII. He that prolongs his meals, and sacrifices his time, as well as his other conveniences,... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pàgines
...adverse fortune easy to us. It is as common for gratitude to be forgetful as for hope to be mindful. It is the character of an unworthy nature to write injuries in marble, and benefits in dust. Without virtue we do but abuse all the good things we have, whether they be great or little, false... | |
 | Watson Adams - 1834 - 290 pàgines
...Ingratitude. To make too much haste to return an obligation, is a sort of ingratitude. Rochef. -f- He who receives a good turn, should never forget it; he who does one, should never remember it. Charron. Cato, In Tully, boasts of this as the great comfort and joy of his old age, That nothing was... | |
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He who receives a good turn should never forget it : he who does one should never remember it. 
