 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 strani
...will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of Prior, on a man's behavior to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot...stamp act should be repealed absolutely, totally, immediately ; and the reason assigned, — that it was founded on an erroneous principle. ' At the... | |
 | Robert Aglionby Slaney - 1846 - 128 strani
...steady part sustain, And some by usage harsh estrang'd, Have quite their natural feelings chang'd ; * " Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind ; In reason always take her part, And put your padlock on — her heart." No sight can more the mind appal,... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth Quillinan - 1846 - 544 strani
...reclaim any particle of her good- will, we should learn to repress our superciliousness, and — " Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind." The worst symptom in her modern character, and one indeed which to us at a distance does make the Portuguese... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1848 - 208 strani
...will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of Prior's, of a man's behaviour 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... | |
 | 1849 - 602 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, — 4 Be to her faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind.' "Upon the whole, I will beg leave... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 528 strani
...will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of Prior's, of a man's behaviour to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot...faults a little blind : Be to her virtues very kind.' made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 476 strani
...He recommended wisdom and moderation towards America, and quoted two lines of a ballad by Prior— " Be to her faults a little blind : Be to her virtues very kind." He then proposed that the Stamp Act should be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately ; but that... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1851 - 588 strani
...minds among the Ministers, and induced them unanimously, after a brief interval, to bring in two * " Be to her faults a little blind, " Be to her virtues very kind." Mr. Croker observes : " This quotation in any other mouth " would have appeared trivial, but from his... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 458 strani
...of the breath made men in high place to use towards the posterity of that noble daring pcople : " ' Be to her faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind.' " We have had Democratic presidents, Whig presidents, a pseudo Democratic Whig president ; and now... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 570 strani
...minds among the Ministers, and induced them unanimously, after a brief interval, to bring in two * " Be to her faults a little blind, " Be to her virtues very kind." Mr. Croker observes : " This quotation in any other mouth• " would have appeared trivial, but from... | |
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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. 
