 | 1844 - 836 oldal
...to attempt to improve their minds as to go about to plough the rocks. It is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them giddy ; it is the looking down with contempt upon those below them. It is very unhappy for R man to be too well known to the world, and too much unknown to... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 oldal
...until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle. — Bracebridge Hall. It is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them giddy ; it is the looking down with contempt upon those beneath. — Conversations of Lord Byron. I could spend whole days, and moonlight nights, in feeding upon a... | |
 | 1852 - 572 oldal
...If mercy is to be extended, it is mercy to be revealed hereafter." " IT is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them giddy ; it is the looking down with contempt upon, those beneath." 136 137 WfliT IS DOXE WITH THE WICKED » A SUBSCRIBER in Morgan, Ashtabula County, Ohio, writes to... | |
 | Maxims - 1852 - 242 oldal
...of riches, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit. It is not the height to which men are advanced, that makes them giddy ; it is the looking down with contempt upon those below them. It is a much easier task to dig metal out of its native mine, than to get it out of the... | |
 | Elisha Reynolds Potter - 1854 - 354 oldal
...may learn- from the remark of the poor Brahmin. — Newport Advertiser. IT is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them giddy ; it is the looking down with contempt upon those below them. CHRISTMAS CAROLS. THREE years ago, the following lines, by Rev. EH Sears, were first pablished... | |
 | 1861 - 302 oldal
...friendship, changes justice into cruelty, and turns all order into confusion. It is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them giddy, it is the looking down with contempt upon those beneath. To tell our own secrets is folly, but that folly is without guilt. To communicate those with which... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1864 - 200 oldal
...friendship, changes justice into cruelty, and turns all order into confusion. It is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them giddy ; it is the looking down with contempt upon those beneath. To be angry about trifles, is mean and childish ; to rage and be furious, is brutish ; and to maintain... | |
 | 1881 - 398 oldal
...which none can hear Of human mould, with gross unpurged ear. MILTON. IT is not the height to which men, are advanced, that makes them giddy; it is the looking down with contempt upon those below them. 348 -^tti ftssorhiion NEW ZEALAND. From our Brother Bowron. FROM the far-oflf land Brother... | |
 | 1897 - 176 oldal
...n-_ver seem to know it. 12. Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown. 13. It is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them giddy; it is the looking down with contempt upon those below them. 14. He who swells in prosperity will shrink in adversity. 15. Arrogance is a weed that... | |
 | Abram N. Coleman - 1903 - 310 oldal
...Richard Cecil. 44. Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown. Talmud. 45. It is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them giddy ; it is the looking down with contempt upon those below them. Rule of Life. 56. A wise man has dignity without pride ; a fool has pride without dignity.... | |
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It is not the height to which men are advanced that makes them giddy ; it is the looking down with contempt upon those beneath. 