 | Peter Mackenzie - 1833 - Liczba stron: 252
...relished much better by our readers than if we had entered into a long dry disquisition on that topic. " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow, And all the rest are leather and prunella." As, therefore, we have neither the pride nor the vanity of any person to... | |
 | Sir George Head - 1836 - Liczba stron: 480
...dress, I marched on, following my leader, repeating the lines of the poet, " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, And all the rest is leather and prunella." As we proceeded, my new companion was at some pains to explain to me the mode by which a free circulation... | |
 | 1844 - Liczba stron: 576
...assert, that " Honor and fame from no condition rise ; Act well yonr part— there all the merit lies. Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow, And all the re«t ia leather and prunella." No man can ever entertain a proper respect and estimation for others,... | |
 | Anne Marsh- Caldwell - 1845 - Liczba stron: 666
...luxury-cradled minions of courts ? I'd have you to know — " " Oh!" said Reginald, " I have it by rote— that ' worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow,' and as there cannot be the slightest question as to the intrinsic worth of every one of us, the consequence... | |
 | 1744 - Liczba stron: 596
...them well ?" HONOCS or shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, for there true honour lies. Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow ; And all the rest Is leather and prunella. JFatts <Stma. UNINTERRUPTED SUCCESSIONS. — There have been but two in this world, after all the noise... | |
 | Hints - 1846 - Liczba stron: 164
...to start in wedded life. Remember the memorable words of the poet : — "\Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; And all the rest is leather and prunella." Of course, Spinsters, " worth " must be taken to allude to the man, who is "worth" some comfortable... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - 1851 - Liczba stron: 734
...therefore, shine among men : set it on a hill, and do not conceal it under a bushel of gawkeyness, or some stupid conceit of your personal dignity ;..." Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow, Anil all the rest is leather and prunella?'' I have seen dignified shoemakers, carters, butchers, and... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - 1854 - Liczba stron: 710
...therefore, shine among men : set it on a hill, and do not conceal it under a bushel of gawkeyness, or some stupid conceit of your personal dignity; or,...have known philosophers and very learned men without the least dignity. Believe me, there is true dignity in great virtue, great information, and great... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1856 - Liczba stron: 500
...at the opera, lodge in the Fifth Avenue, and create a great sensation in Wall street, where Money " makes the man, the want of it the fellow ; And all the rest is leather and prunella." But if it be asked, to what purpose does this man live ? what is he worth to his fellow-men ? what... | |
 | 1856 - Liczba stron: 606
...at the opera, lodge in the west end, and create a great sensation in the Exchange where — Money " makes the man ; the want of it the fellow ; And all the rest is leather and prunello :" There are some everywhere, in our prosperous country, of great possessions, who resemble... | |
| |
... or some stupid conceit of your personal dignity; or, what is still more asinine, the dignity of your calling. Dignity is you, not physic, nor the practice thereof. Did you never hear that " Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow, And all the... 
