| Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - English essays - 1714 - 382 pages
...— Hor. A Good Conference is to the Soul what Health ii to the Body: It preferves a conftant Eafe and Serenity within us, and more than countervails all the Calamities and Afflictions which can poflibly befal us. I know nothing fo hard for a generous Mind to get over as Calumny and Reproach,... | |
| 1797 - 550 pages
...GOOD confcience is to the foul what health is to the body ; it prefervcs a conftant eafe and ferenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can poffibly befal us. I know nothing fo hard for a. generous mind to get over as calumny and red This... | |
| Aphorisms and apothegms - 1803 - 228 pages
...future frown i How, ever and anon, awake the soul, As with ^ peal of thunder, to strange horrors ! A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the...than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can befal us. No line holds the anchor of contentment so fast as a good conscience. This cable... | |
| Readers - 1803 - 250 pages
...GOOD confcience is to the foul, what health is to the body; it preferves a conftant eafe and ferenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can poffibly befall us. I know nothing fo hard for a generous mind to get over, as calumny and reproach... | |
| 1804 - 498 pages
...mea Virtute me involve — HOR.3. Od.ixix. 54. Virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. DRYDEN. A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to the...the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us. I know nothing so hard for a generous mind to get over as calumny and reproach, and cannot... | |
| Children - 530 pages
...voice of Christ. 4 Practice increaseth knowledge. 5 Nothing is truly infamous but what is wicked. 6 A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body. 7 Leaders in sin are the worst of sinners. 8 Poverty wants some things, luxury many, 'but avarice all... | |
| Conduct of life - 1810 - 234 pages
...anon, awake the soul, As with a peal of thunder, to strange horrors ! A good conscience is to the soid what health is to the body. It preserves a constant ease and serenity within ns, and more thaa countervails all the calamities and aulictions that can befal us. IVo line holds... | |
| Decoration and ornament - 1815 - 502 pages
...verbatim et literatim, I am confident of the author's sentiment from whom I have borrowed it. — " A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body ; it n fails to maintain a predominai ' lr>ix ki SDate.vlsvii d-icMi K i 'aru>us tfl'^1 m^'i mera ciilatnities,'... | |
| John Wilson (D.D.) - Bible - 1816 - 308 pages
...ill effeets. t gjod eonseienee the best seeurity against Calumny and Reproaeh. 1. A good eonseienee is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a eonstant ease and serenity within us, and more than eountervails all the ealamities and afflietions... | |
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