 Let not thy jests, like mummy, be made of dead men's flesh. Abuse not any that are departed ; for to wrong their memories is to rob their ghosts of their winding-sheets. Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh...  American Farmer - Página 1631866Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Dr. Doran (John) - 1858 - 414 páginas
...hittest Scripture in ordinary discourse, yet fly to the city of refuge, and pray God to forgive thee. Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to mend. Oh ! 'tis cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches. Neither scorn any for his profession,... | |
 | 1860 - 204 páginas
...adversity only does the soul come nobler and greater. Scoff not at the natural defects of any, which it is not in their power to amend. Oh ! 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches. — Fuller. One cannot always be a hero, but one may always be a man. The coward was born a slave.... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...be not so wise as i formerly ; they are yet your parents — your | duty is not diminished. South. Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh, it ¡я cruel to beat a cripple with his own : crutches ! JEST— How to Judge of a. Judge of a jest... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 páginas
...the church itself is a coemeterium, when the living sleep above ground as the dead do beneath." '• Scoff not at the natural defects of any, which are not in their power to ameadOh ! 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches." " Good company is not only profitable... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1864 - 340 páginas
...worst in withered age, when men run after that sin in their words which flieth from them in the deed. Let not thy jests, like mummy, be made of dead men's...of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh, 't is cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches. Neither flout any for his profession, if honest,... | |
 | 1866 - 578 páginas
...Ahuse not those who are dead. Even pagans had a proverb — " Speak of the dead nothing but good." 5. Scoff not at the natural defects of any, which are not in their power to amend. 0 it is a cruelty to beat the cripple with his own crutches ! Mock not a cobbler for his black thumbs.... | |
 | 1872 - 556 páginas
...by coming to the fire. Goods acquired by industry prove commonly more lasting than lands by descent. Scoff not at the natural defects of any, which are not in their power to amend. Oh ! 'tis cruelty to b-'at a cripple with his own crutches. Generally, nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face... | |
 | National reading books - 1871 - 224 páginas
...laugh and wise men frown. Seeing we are civilized Englishmen, let us not be naked savages in our talk. Scoff not at the natural defects of any, which are not in their power to amend. 0 it is cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches ! Neither flout any for his profession, if... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 páginas
...any that arc departed, for to wrong their memories is to rob their ghosts of their winding sheets. Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh! it is cruelty In beat a cripple with his own crutches. Neither flout any for his profession, if honest,... | |
 | John Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 952 páginas
...profane jests will come without calling." "Scoff not at the natural defects of any, which [defects] are not in their power to amend. Oh, 'tis cruelty to beat a cripple with his own crutches."1 (And elsewhere : " It is unnatural to laugh at a natural.") Of the character entitled "... | |
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