 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1858 - 638 pàgines
...would apply to the present French rulers (particularly BARRAS and REÜBKL) the words of the poet : < Be to their faults a little blind ; Be to their virtues...be unconfined, And clap the padlock on their mind Г And for these reasons, thanking the gentlemen •who had done him the honor to drink his health,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 872 pàgines
...would apply to the present French rulers (particularly Barras and Eewbell) the words of the poet : Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind ; Let all their ways be unconfmed, And clap a padlock on their mind. And for these reasons, thanking the gentlemen who had... | |
 | John Thompson Brooke - 1860 - 134 pàgines
...childhood. We must still doubt the expediency of verbally reproving every such fault. The couplet — " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind," — with due Christian modification, may be applied to our children as well as to other members of... | |
 | 1861 - 546 pàgines
...other nations, she is disposed to judge her friends and servants more leniently than her foes, — to " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind ;" — we may confess, with shame, that the language of our statesmen, especially of late, when they... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Thomas - 1863 - 240 pàgines
...the texture of their political fabric. Theirs was the toil of the distaff: ours, the robe of light. "Be to their faults a little blind ; Be to their virtues very kind." The founders, and four generations of their descendants, have passed away. Massachusetts, having renounced... | |
 | Reverdy Johnson - 1863 - 764 pàgines
...the texture of their political fabric. Theirs was the toil of the distaff: ours, the robe of light. " Be to their faults a little blind ; Be to their virtues very kind." The founders, and four generations of their descendants, have passed away. Massachusetts, having renounced... | |
 | John Weiss - 1864 - 522 pàgines
...for light and heat. We must have a good deal of charity for all men, both conservative and radical. " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind " is no bad rule for the active or passive part of the world. Truly yours, THEO. PABKEB. FROM THE JOURNAL... | |
 | John Weiss - 1864 - 534 pàgines
...for light and heat. We must have a good deal of charity for all men, both conservative and radical. " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind " is no bad rule for the active or passive part of the world. Truly yours, THEO. PABKEB. FROM THE JOURNAL.... | |
 | 1865 - 452 pàgines
...may have been their errors, however blind the infatuation of their folly, still would we say : — " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind." Let us bear constantly in mind ourselves, and no less constantly impress on the minds of all with whom... | |
 | 1865 - 432 pàgines
...which you yourself have occasioned ? No ! rather let prudence and temper come from this side — 1 Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind.' My opinion is (said Pitt in conclusion), that the Stamp Act be repealed — absolutely, totally, and... | |
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Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, And clap your padlock on the mind. 
