 | William Andrus Alcott - Conduct of life - 1847 - 510 pages
...dislikes. All I aim at is, to convince the young — especially the young woman — that the old couplet, " Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies " — is not so very far from the truth, as many suppose ; and that happiness, and even usefulness... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1847 - 666 pages
...last finishing grace to the representation of the tragedy, lie probably thought with our poet, that " Honor and shame from no condition rIse: Act well your part, there all the honor lies." GRECIAN STAGE. The theatre of Bacchus in Atheus, was bnilt by the famous architect Philos, in the time... | |
 | Abiel Abbot LIVERMORE - 1847 - 172 pages
...dignity, too, that has no deeper basis than one's ancestry, or family, fortune, or calling in life. " Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part ; there all the honor lies." "I am a man," is better ground for respecting one's self than to be king or president. The human in... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1847 - 668 pages
...benefit the whole community. We need also to see and to feel what the old trite couplet well expresses, " Honor and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honor lies." and this is indeed the sum of the whole matter. The course of remark that has been followed, must have... | |
 | Lydia Folger Fowler - Phrenology - 1848 - 354 pages
...profession of the mechanic, the inventor, and constructor, is as honorable as any other ; remember that " Honor and shame from no condition, rise, Act well your part, there all the honor lies." 10. Little girls show this development in cutting and fitting dresses for their dolls, and in sewing... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Christian ethics - 1849 - 230 pages
...is called, great? How illustrated? 6* though they were not obliged to labor for their own support. " Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies." The Athenians erected a large statue to and placed him, though a slave, on a lasting pedestal, to show... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1850 - 162 pages
...peace, and competence comprise all the pleasures which this world can afford. EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE. 1. Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part ; there all the honor lies. 2. Like birds whose beauties languish half concealed, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1850 - 466 pages
...own species. Diligence, industry and proper improvement of time, are material duties of the young. Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines. USE OF WORDS, PHRASES, AMD CLAUSES,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1851 - 472 pages
...own species. Diligence, industry and proper improvement of time, are material duties of the young. Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines. X. USE OF WORDS, PHRASES, AND CLAUSES,... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - Children's literature, American - 1851 - 218 pages
...any occupation that was strictly honest. He had not studied to purpose that noble couplet of Pope's "Honor and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part — there all the honor lies." Instead of looking at his duty— instead of only asking "Is this right?" — he let himself be governed... | |
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Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 
