 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1840 - 658 strani
...other mouth, would have appeared trivial, but from his was accepted as the apophthegm of a sage : — ' Be to her faults a little blind. Be to her virtues very kind.' This speech, powerful in its effect at the moment, is also remarkable for containing the first germ... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1841 - 548 strani
...will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of Prior's, of a man's behavior to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot...faults a little blind Be to her virtues very kind." Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the house what is my opinion. It is, that the stamp act be... | |
 | John Niles Hubbard - 1842 - 322 strani
...thousand pounds at present. You owe this to America. This is the price she pays for your protection." In conclusion he gave it as his opinion that the Stamp...be repealed ; " absolutely, totally and immediately ;" but at the same time that the sovereign authority of England over the colonies should be asserted... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 strani
...mortal rake-hells lewd With all their midnight arts punu'd, Had not Franca, vol. ii. p. 77. ADAPTED. charms, and strike you with admiration instead of desire. It And clap your padlock on her mind.— Padltck. 'MR. SPECTATOR, — Your correspondent's letter relating... | |
 | 1849 - 600 strani
...will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of Prior's, of a man's behavior to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot...faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind.' " Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the House what is really my opinion. It is, that the Stamp... | |
 | John Robert Godley - 1844 - 324 strani
...own country, or that he should not rather look upon all that is hers with a partial eye, and — " Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind;"— I mean nothing of this: but I mean that he should gravely and soberly, in a high spirit of goodwill... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1845 - 558 strani
...will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of Prior's, of a man's behavior to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot help repeating them: • Be to her frohi m fittlr blind Be to her virtues very kind-" Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the house... | |
 | 1845 - 554 strani
...man's behavior to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot help repeat* ing them : " Be to her faults a little blind Be to her virtues very kind." Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the house what is my opinion. It is, that the stamp act be... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1845 - 490 strani
...present question, supposing America in the situation of a wife : they are thesCj where he says — " ' Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind, And clap the padlock on her mind.' " I don't know how it is," continued he, " when I had something... | |
 | Jeptha Root Simms - 1845 - 686 strani
...would earnestly adopt in relation to America, is happily expressed in the words of a favorite poet : " Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind, Let a!l her ways be unconfined And clap your padlock on her mind." Upon the whole I beg leave to tell... | |
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Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America that she will follow the example. 
