 | Thomas Fuller - 1840 - 420 strani
...and a hundred to one they will come to thee once in thy lifetime. LX. — OF MODERATION. MODERATION is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.* It appears both in practice and judgment : we will insist on the latter, and describe it first negatively.... | |
 | 1865 - 838 strani
...think of the mother we have lost. MODERATION. — Fuller beautifully says of moderation, that " It is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues." (^tier's Cable. THB BtTKIAL OP BIKNET. TOILING ! tolling ! bark the knell Of the solemn funeral bell,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 590 strani
...warmth of the fire ! But they must be deferred to leave me time and space for other attributes — for example, his charity, in its widest sense, the moderation...would have been (if the foundation had existed, save iu the fiction of Rabelais,) of the Utopian order of Thelemites, where each man under scriptural warrant... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 612 strani
...element may so much prevail as to disfigure its possessor rather than fortify or ennoble him. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl- chain of all virtues, without which the orator suffers more than any other man, since he can command others only so far as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 strani
...have lost. Is there no way to bring home a wandering sheep but by worrying him to death! Moderation ons reason could invent. Though sure I know my labour's end is grief, IZAAK WALTON. One of the most interesting and popular of our early writers was IZAAK W ALTON, an English... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 strani
...and we run after him again to save us !" MODERATION. Fuller beautifully says of moderation, that "it is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues." WILKD3 AND THE MONK OF THE ESCURIAL. have sat daily in sight of that picture for now nearly threescore... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 strani
...and we run after him again to save us !" MODERATION. Fuller beautifully says of moderation, that " it is | the silken string running through the pearl chain of \ all virtues." WILKIE AND THE MONK OF THE ESCURIAL. When Wilkie was in the Escurial, looking at Titian's famous picture... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 strani
...A mob is a monster, with heads enough, but no heart, and little brains. MODERATION. — Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl- chain of all virtues. — Fuller. MODERATION OF DESIRES. — Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all... | |
 | 1855 - 852 strani
.... . Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire. . . . Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. . . . Scorn no man for his poverty ; honor no man for his wealth. — Turkish five. ANOTHER WORD TO... | |
 | 1862 - 362 strani
...with God, but reign together with him, and partake of his glorious kingdom. — Taylor. Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. — Fuller. Let our life be moderate, our desires reasonable, our hopes little. — Taylor. Be not... | |
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the Silken String running through the Pearl Chain of all Virtues. 
