 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 300 strani
...is always appropriate in cases where conciliation is a duty, and will best pave the way for peace. "Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind." The maddest inmates of Bedlam are often guided back to sanity, to a higher and more intellectual morality,... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1850 - 942 strani
...schools, I wish to observe that I have spoken of them on the principle recommended in another case : — " Be to their faults a little blind ; Be to their virtues very kind." The local promoters of schools have made great efforts, often freat sacrifices, and they should not... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 strani
...would apply to the present French rulers (particularly Barms 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 unconnn'd, And clap the padlock on their mind.' And for these reasons, thanking the gentlemen who had... | |
 | 1851 - 560 strani
...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 affections, convince... | |
 | 1851 - 498 strani
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 724 strani
...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... | |
 | Sir George Ferguson Bowen - 1852 - 276 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 448 strani
...Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind ; Let all their ways be unconfln'd, And clap the padlock on their mind.' And for these...propose ' Merlin, the late Minister of Justice, and Triul by Jury.' " Cobbett about the same time published the following notice of one of his parliamentary... | |
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Be to their faults a little blind, Be to their virtues very kind, Let all their thoughts be unconfined, And clap your padlock on the mind. 
