 | 1851 - 560 pagina’s
...poet, adverted to by lord Chatham on the memorable subject of America, unfortunately without effect. " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind; Let all their thoughts be unconfin'd, Nor ckp your padlock on the mind." Engage the people by their... | |
 | 1855 - 724 pagina’s
...inasmuch as th« We should then respectfully commend to our readers the adoption of the old adage, " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind." If metaphysical platitudes, egotistical pomposity, and an unexceptionable exhibition, and unmerciful... | |
 | 1851 - 498 pagina’s
...to remember that we in our favoured land must in common fairness as well as in common charity — " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind." For the wonder is — not that their ignorance is gross or their indolence contemptible, or that the... | |
 | Sir George Ferguson Bowen - 1852 - 276 pagina’s
...to remember that we in our favoured land must in common fairness as well as in common charity — " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind." For the wonder is, not that their ignorance is gross or their indolence contemptible, or that the spirit... | |
 | William Smyth - 1854 - 554 pagina’s
...for the madness which you have occasioned 1 Rather let prudence and temper come from this side : * Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind.' " My opinion is, that the Stamp Act be repealed, absolutely, totally, and immediately; that the reason... | |
 | 1855 - 442 pagina’s
...treated ? Like a noble and generous race, as they are, which is not yet, but may soon be civilized. Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind. They require a treatment as much removed from pure despotism on the one hand as from Governmental neglect... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 638 pagina’s
...would apply to the present French rulers (particularly BARRAS and REÜBKL) the words of the poet : < Be to their faults a little blind ; Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their ways be unconfined, And clap the padlock on their mind Г And for these reasons, thanking... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 872 pagina’s
...would apply to the present French rulers (particularly Barras and Eewbell) the words of the poet : Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind ; Let all their ways be unconfmed, And clap a padlock on their mind. And for these reasons, thanking... | |
 | John Thompson Brooke - 1860 - 134 pagina’s
...childhood. We must still doubt the expediency of verbally reproving every such fault. The couplet — " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind," — with due Christian modification, may be applied to our children as well as to other members of... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1861 - 546 pagina’s
...other nations, she is disposed to judge her friends and servants more leniently than her foes, — to " Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind ;" — we may confess, with shame, that the language of our statesmen, especially of late, when they... | |
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Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, A.nd clap your padlock on the mind. 
