 | 1836 - 708 pages
...feelings than Human love, hatred, and revenge. It is no longer a mystery "That pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness: that he who feels...contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he haa never used: that thought with him IB in its infancy." There are those now that can lead forth their... | |
 | Mary Richardson (ady.) - 1837 - 986 pages
...the world intensely, he affected to despise it, and had not learned that true wisdom, which teaches " That he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath...never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy." Mr. Willoughby's impressions concerning his new friends may be best conveyed by a part of one of his... | |
 | 1837 - 418 pages
...yearning toward those little immaturities ; and notwithstanding Wordsworth's profound saying — " That he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath...Which he has never used ; that thought, with him, Ig m its infancy" — We do rather despise a man that looks with a cold eye and a curled lip upon a... | |
 | sir John William Kaye - 1837 - 922 pages
...asked Lawrence. "A very great poet," replied Ella, "and he tells us, as well as I can remember, that be who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never tried — that thought with him Is in its infancy — " " I don't quite agree with that," remarked... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1837 - 444 pages
...mountains, but who would forget its flowers ? In the world of animate and of inanimate existence, " He who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he hath never used; and thought with him Is in its infancy." — WOBDSVYORTH. Only a mess of pottage cost... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pages
...peculiar domain. We are told that ' He who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties That he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.' It is here that, were we to unde'rstand the doctrine as delivered for acceptation by mankind at large,... | |
 | 1840 - 552 pages
...We know that one of the greatest of English poets has said, The man whose eye Is ever on liiraself, doth look on one, The least of nature's works, one...man to that scorn, which wisdom holds Unlawful ever. We know that pride leads men to conceal the littleness, and the weakness, and the poorness of vanity... | |
 | Eliza Buckminster Lee - Salem (Mass.) - 1840 - 186 pages
...consequence at his advanced age. CHAPTER X. Pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; and he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used. O, be wiser, then ! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love: True dignity abides with him alone,... | |
 | Joseph Holdich - Methodist Church - 1842 - 488 pages
...words we have before employed, observes, in one of his sonnets, " Know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels...man to that scorn which wisdom holds Unlawful ever." — WORDSWORTH. From this vice he was preserved by the equal development of all his faculties, and... | |
 | Boys - 1842 - 362 pages
...grade than those with which they are endowed, it is nevertheless of rare occurrence, and great utility. He who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used. It is not meant to deny that there is both pleasure and profit in having access and habitual intercourse... | |
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The man whose eye Is ever on himself doth look on one, The least of Nature's works, one who might move The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds Unlawful, ever. 
