 Is placable, because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness...  The Christian Disciple - Sida 241822Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 sidor
...More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more expos'd to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive...Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse 111, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 180 sidor
...able to endure, As more expos'd to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. 32 Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that...Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 sidor
...that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress...Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 sidor
...that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress...Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation... | |
 | British poets - 1828 - 838 sidor
...that demand such sacrifice ; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress...Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in quality or act is best Doth seldom on a right foundation... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1828 - 372 sidor
...that demand such sacrifice; More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness. — 'T is he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends; Whence, in... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1832 - 360 sidor
...EDWARD TAGART, Who is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arras should wish to be ? — 'Tis he whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means ; and there will stand On honourable terms,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1837 - 452 sidor
...people, honour, safety, and the means of perpetual pro gross. CHAPTER III. MORALS OF POLITICS. " TIB b<» whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as...Whence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill. And what in quality or act is best, .Doth seldom on a right foundation... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1837 - 426 sidor
...people, honour, safety, and the means of perpetual pro. gress. CHAPTER III. MORALS OF POLITICS. * Tis hi whose law is reason ; who depends Upon that law as on the best of friends ; \Vhence, in a state where men are tempted still To evil for a guard against worse ill, And what in... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 536 sidor
...often that demand such sacrifice. More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure As tempted more ; more able to endure As more exposed to suffering and distress, Thence also mote alive to tenderness." This exquisito picture cannot be a portraiture of all military men, it is... | |
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