 | Charles Force Deems - 1878 - 780 pagina’s
...not, Lord, our offenses, nor the offenses of our forefather* Spare us, good Lord." detraction are but sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. — Boerhaave. A CHRISTIAN being only a traveler through the world, must expect a traveler's fare —... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1879 - 598 pagina’s
...course, there are those who must be adjudged superior. JRS CLIFFORD. CALUMNY and detraction are but sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. — Eoerhaave. CHARADE. By WM PRAED. ON the casement frame the wind, beat high, Never a star was in... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 608 pagina’s
...calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confate them ; 'for they are sparks,' said he, 'which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.' The town of Leyden erected a monument to his memory in St. Peter's church. BOERNE, LUDWIG, was born... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1883 - 878 pagina’s
...soured by calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them ; for, said he, they are sparks which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.' And, says Cato, ' We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 pagina’s
...calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them ; "for they are sparks," said he, "which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves."' Johnson's Works, vi. 288. Swift, in his Lines on Censure which begin, — ' Ye wise instruct me to... | |
 | Walter Baxendale - 1888 - 708 pagina’s
...to say, that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. "They are sparks," said he, " which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves." 70«. CALUMNY utilised. Tillotson collected a number of libels against himself, got them richly bound,... | |
 | 1892 - 658 pagina’s
...say that he never ' thought it necessary to rept at thoir calumnies. " They are sparks," said he, " which, if you ' do not blow them, will go out of themselves, i Tho surest method against scandal is to live ' it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by < prayer... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pagina’s
...of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire. Lavaier. Calumnies X ,pX ,@Π, Boer/¡aove, Calumny is like the wasp which worries you ; which it were best not to try to get rid... | |
 | Tract Association of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1893 - 636 pagina’s
...regarded calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to refute them. 'They are sparks,' said he, 'which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. The surest remedy against scandal is, to live it down by perseverance in well-doing ; and by praying... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pagina’s
...used to say that he never thought it necessary to repeat their calumnies. " They arc sparks," snid he, "which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves. — Disraeli. Those who ought to be secure from calnmny »re generally those who avoid it least. —... | |
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He was always cheerful, and desirous of promoting mirth by a facetious and humorous conversation; he was never soured by calumny and detraction, nor ever thought it necessary to confute them; "for they are sparks," said he, " which if you do not blow... 
