 | Charles SANDYS - 1847 - 74 pages
...errors to their proper source, the innate weakness, corruption, and depravity of the human heart. " Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and mislead the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1847 - 540 pages
...SHAKSPEARE. 2. One whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and mislead the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride — that never-failing vice... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...severity is chiefly to he used hy the critics, ver. 526, &c. OF all the causes which conspire to hlind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest hias rules, Is pride ; the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - English language - 1849 - 262 pages
...reproach, "Long hast thou wander'd in a stranger's land A stranger to thyself and to thy God." Pride. 1. ; Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 1Whatever nature has in worth denied She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies,... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - Conduct of life - 1849 - 300 pages
...enervating spell, which all who would hope to live a virtuous and beneficent life must studiously avoid. " Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride ; the never-failing vice of fools." Human character of the first order is analogous to a Grecian temple, perhaps the most exquisite production... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...writes), To teach vain wits a science little known, To admire superior sense, and doubt their own ! n. Or all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For as in bodies,... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - Elocution - 1849 - 356 pages
...What beetles in our own ! m ^ &~, [Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, | What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride. Sit .^ High on a throne of royal state, f which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus or of lud, Or where... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...strange, stiff title for a poein !' readers possessed with the modern flippant taste would exclaim : " Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride! For as in bodies,... | |
 | 1850 - 642 pages
...actions the most vicious. 2. Pride is a very common source of infidelity. Pope has well observed that, " Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools." There is certainly no vice which exercises a more deleterious influence over the human understanding... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...strange, stiff title for a poem !' readers possessed with the modern flippant taste would exclaim : "Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride! For as in bodies,... | |
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OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 
