 | Robert Aglionby Slaney - 1846 - 128 trang
...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... | |
 | Dorothy Wordsworth Quillinan - 1846 - 544 trang
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 602 trang
...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...is really my opinion. It is, that the Stamp Act be rcjc.ileJ, abmJutrly, In/ally, and immediately. That the reason for the repeal be assigned, because... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 528 trang
...behaviour to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot help repeating them:— < Be to her 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... | |
 | 1851 - 560 trang
...behavior to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot help repeating them: u Be to her faults a little blind Be to her virtues...whole, I will beg leave to tell the house what is my opinion. It is, that the stamp act be repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately. That the reason... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 458 trang
...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... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1851 - 588 trang
...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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1851 - 570 trang
...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... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 476 trang
...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 trang
...by treaty ? while the ransom for the Manillas is denied by Spain ? The Americans have been wronged. They have been driven to madness by injustice. Will...faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind." Let the Stamp Act be repealed ; and let the reason for the repeal — * Mr. Nugent had said that a... | |
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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 repealed absolutely, totally, and immediately. 
