 | General reader - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1827 - 246 pages
...apprentices of despatch and skill, but neither of them, ever learn their master's trade. — Lacon. If I am asked, who is the greatest man? I answer, the...the best ; I reply, he who has deserved most of his fellow creatures. — Sir Wm. Jones. It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is... | |
 | 1836 - 456 pages
...6+4+3=13 12 + 12 + 3 — 4 = 23 From the Original Ci)e ©atltmr. If I am asked, (says Sir W. Jones,) who is the greatest man '•' I answer, the best ;...I am required to say who is the best, I reply, he that has deserved most of his fellow-creatures. Whether we deserve better of mankind by the cultivation... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang. — Franklin. cccxLii. Of Greatness. — If I am asked, who is the greatest man? I answer the...if I am required to say who is the best? I reply he that has deserved most of his fellow-creatures. Whether he deserves better of mankind by the cultivation... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Missions - 1842 - 432 pages
...and generous applause ?* How truly may we apply to them the language of a philosophic writer ! " If I am asked, Who is the greatest man ? I answer, The...am required to say, Who is the best ? I reply, He that has deserved most of his fellow-creatures."f Among the strong inducements of the present crisis,... | |
 | J. Fletcher - 1843 - 472 pages
...grateful and generous applause? How truly may we apply to them the language of a philosophic writer ! " If I am asked, who is the greatest man, I answer, the...I am required to say who is the best, I reply, he that has deserved most of his fellow-creatures." — From an Essay on Missions, by the Rev. Richard... | |
 | Theology - 1855 - 630 pages
...William Jones— in which the same idea is expressed with great force and beauty. Sir William said : " If I am asked who is the greatest man, I answer, the...I am required to say who is the best, I reply, he that has discovered most for his fellow-creatures. Whether we deserve belter of mankind by the cultivation... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...makes an unjust war is only a great gang. — Franklin. FBOM THE BEST AUTHORS. Of Greatness. — If I am asked, who is the greatest man ? I answer the...if I am required to say who is the best? I reply he that has deserved most of his fellowcreatures. Whether we deserve better of mankind by the cultivation... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...— And a better day dawns upon suffering man, Hope, hope, hope ! GERALD MASSEY. OP GREATNESS. — If I am asked who is the greatest man ? I answer the...I am required to say who is the best ? I reply he that has deserved most of his fellow-creatures. Whether we deserve better of mankind by the cultivation... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...thy eternal day. XIV. GLORY. " To govern one's self, not others, is true glory." — Channing. " If I am asked, who is the greatest man ? I answer the...I am required to say who is the best ? I reply he that has deserved most of his fellow creatures. Whether we deserve better of mankind by the cultivation... | |
 | Bible Christians - 1885 - 746 pages
...SHAFrESBURY. THE BIBLE CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE. THE GOOD EARL ' N his Commentaries, Sir William Jones says, " If I am asked, Who is the greatest man ? I answer, The...He who has deserved most of his fellow-creatures. Whether we deserve better of mankind by the cultivation of letters, by obscure and inglorious attainments,... | |
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If I am asked, who is the greatest man ? I answer the best ; and if I am required to say who is the best? I reply he that has deserved most of his fellowcreatures. 
