| Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with^pofish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wantmg sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. , . , An inadvertent step may crush the snail, , . , i That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd,... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...censured. II would not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine senspi Yet wanting sensibility,) the man "Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertant step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity,... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - Conduct of life - 1827 - 270 pages
...I think of Cowper's lines : ' I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the...sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread... | |
| William Jevons - Ethics - 1827 - 424 pages
...says an amiable poet, \ * v . " I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners, and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,)...sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will step... | |
| Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...*VCruelty to brutes censured. 1. I WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with pohsh'd manners and fine sense) Yet wanting sensibility,)...sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evenirg in the publick path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread... | |
| Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...storm. His hour was come. ***** I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac.d with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the...sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path j But he that has humanity, forewarn 'd, Will tread... | |
| Poetical ladder - 1827 - 94 pages
...me all. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish 'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,)...needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step tray crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd,... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...brutes censured. I WOULD not enter on my list of friends', (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fise sense, Yet wanting sensibility',) the man Who needlessly...sets foot upon a worm*. An inadvertent step may crush the snail', That crawls at evening in the public patfr ; But he that has humanity', forewarn'd', Will... | |
| Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...thus : I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine seioe-, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. Aii inodvertent step may crush the «r ai! c 2 That crawU at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that... | |
| William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...brute the way to safe revenge, I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the...sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail. That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But her that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will... | |
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