 How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill...  Chambers's poetical reader - Pagina 35door Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 200 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1849 - 550 pagina’s
...Your Helper will be near. • Doddridge. 210. LM A Happy Life. 1 How happy is he born and taught, Who serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest...are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied to this vain world by care Of public fame, or private breath : 3 Who hath his life from rumours freed,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 372 pagina’s
...some short poems, which are distinguished by a dignity of thought and expressiou rarely excelled. 1. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! 2. Whose passions not his masters are,... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pagina’s
...itself. Francois de La Rochefoucauld « Be true to your own highest convictions. William E. Channing K How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Sir Henry Wotton 3. James Lane Allen... | |
 | Joan Thirsk - 1990 - 484 pagina’s
...For the cottager with ample common rights, there was profound truth in Sir Henry Wotton's dictum : How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will. C. ENCLOSURE AND ENCROACHMENT Such an economy was peculiarly vulnerable, however, to the new economic... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...(1. 62—64) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P; PoRA SIR HENRY WOTTON (1568-1639) The Character of a Happy Life 1 he wind was still, Shaken out dead from tree and hill:...wind's will,— 1 sat now, for the wind was still. (1. (1. 1-4) Wotton POETRY QUOTATIONS 2 Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath... | |
 | Upton Sinclair - 2023 - 276 pagina’s
...practice self-control. I had read the world's best literature, and my mind was stored with consolations. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill. More radio dates in Los Angeles, and a series of final meetings. We had taken the Philharmonic Auditorium... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1996 - 304 pagina’s
...set out to inscribe an ideal. (Henry Wotton's lyric "On the Character of a Happy Life" comes to mind: "How happy is he born and taught / That serveth not another's will.") 83 Then again, Keble seems to have drawn on the sense of liturgical antiphony in such psalms as the... | |
 | William J. Bennett - 1997 - 392 pagina’s
...honorably in the matter. The Character of a Happy Life HENRY WOTTEN Honesty is armor for the soul. How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill! Whose passions not his masters are,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 476 pagina’s
...that the resolution would well become her. CHAPTER LVI "How happy is be born and taught That aerveth not another's will ; Whose armour is his honest thought And simple truth his only skill t • •••••• His man is freed bom servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to... | |
 | Nahdjla Carasco Bailey - 2014 - 132 pagina’s
...the poet and protests against much of what he is saying. Begin the dialogue with the other person. How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's...honest thought And simple truth his utmost skill! Whose passions not his masters are, Whose soul is still prepared for death, Not tied unto the world... | |
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