 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 strani
...education forms the common mind : Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined. Epistle i. Line 149. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.1 Epistle i. Line 172. 1 Tempora rautantur nos et mutamur in illis. Borbonius. Mora) Essays continued.]... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 strani
...education forms the common mind : Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined. Epistle i. Line 149. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.* Epistle i. Line 173. Odious ! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke, Were the last words that poor... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 strani
...Dissimulation hides: Opinions? they still take a wider range: 170 Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. Search then the RULING PASSION»: there, alone, The Wild are constant, and the Cunning known; 175 The... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 strani
...fond of pow'r ; 3 A quaker? Sly. A Presbyterian ? Sour. A smart free-thinker ? All things in an hour. 'Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known. This clue... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 strani
...pow'r ; 3 A quaker? Sly. A Presbyterian 1 Sour. A smart free-thinker 1 .All things in an hour. 4Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Search then the ruling passion. There alone The wild are constant, and the cunning known. This clue... | |
 | James Grant - 1871 - 320 strani
...four years' imprisonment with hard labour " for burying a slave-girl" i n the city o f Benares! So, '' Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes Tenets with books, and. principles with times !" or some one else, alike beyond th e keu Per * ; ~ Thus Zohrab, perceiving that the power and influence... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 strani
...dissimulation hides : Opinions? they still take a wider range : Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. III. Search, then, the ruling passion :: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known... | |
 | John Conington - 1872 - 624 strani
...determined by education. The sum of all is, that there is nothing in which a man cannot change : — Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. But there is a way to educe Cosmos from this Chaos, and that is by finding out the ruling passion.... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 strani
...human breast : Man never is, but always to be blest. Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis — Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. Laudatione tua labeculam aspergere (Cicero) — Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And... | |
 | Words, E. S. - 1873 - 184 strani
...footsteps. My thoughts labour to persuade my soul. Shakespeare. Man's extremity ; God's opportunity. Manners with fortunes, Humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, And principles with times. Pope. " My master is all very well," said the dog, " but I wish he had a tail to wag when he is pleased."... | |
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Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. 
