 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 326 pages
...sociable beings, and useful members of society. Goldsmith very properly condemns the man of talent, " who narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." " If the division of the male community into grades and classes be a confessed evil, what shall we... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 224 pages
...sociable beings, and useful members of society. Goldsmith very properly condemns the man of talent, " who narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind." " If the division of the male community into grades and classes be a confessed evil, what shall we... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...genius was such, We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind ; Tho' fraught with all learning, kept straining his throat, To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him... | |
 | 1837 - 1068 pages
...intolerance, without being reminded of the sentiment originally applied to an English statesman : He narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. But we would by no means intimate that all those geologists whose views respecting the deluge coincide... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend 7 to lend him... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1839 - 472 pages
...instances, but most of them are not now to be recovered from oblivion ; for the records of civil dissension, let it be remembered, are not so lasting as those...the awful history of our own times has persuaded me to forbear ; for of Burke, at least, posterity will never cease to say, What he gave vp to pc.rty,... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...themselves, they wrong their country, by following the example of the statesman, AVho, born for the universe, narrowed his mind. And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. All parties have their several merits and defects, which in case of a wise coalition might be harmonised... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1839 - 646 pages
...genius was such, \Ve scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat. To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 360 pages
...genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much ; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat, [vote : To persuade 15 Tommy Townshend... | |
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Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. 
