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" Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior : for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence? "
Cobb's Spelling Book: Being a Just Standard for Pronouncing the English ... - Page 147
by Lyman Cobb - 1835 - 168 pages
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Temper, a treatise on its use and abuse, by a Staffordshire curate

Temper - 1837 - 370 pages
...we are as yet strangers to the sweet 'assurance of hope' by faith in the atonement of Christ. 28. ' By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing over it, he is his superior. To be able to bear provocation, is an argument of great wisdom, and to...
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Fireside Education ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Child rearing - 1838 - 408 pages
...denied. " The discretion of a man defers his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior." PITY, PATIENCE, &o. There are various other virtues, such as pity, patience, forbearance,...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...doth but oflend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. Certainly in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over, he is superior : for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith, " It is the glory...
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The Odd Fellows' Magazine

Fraternal organizations - 1838 - 488 pages
...frame ; his heart felt truly then, He lov'd the meanest of his fellow-men. B. STOTT, NG REVENGE. — By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing over it he is superior. — Lord Bacon. FROM THE SALMAGUNDI AN ESSAYS. Jfustapha Kelt Kahn, to A>em...
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An enlarged edition of Murray's abridged English grammar, by dr. [J.A.] Giles

Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
...idol of fools. Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over, he is superior. No man has a thorough taste of prosperity to whom adversity never happened. The worst...
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance

Fashion - 1867 - 740 pages
...of the children be extraordinary, then it is good not to cross it. — SIR F. BACON. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior, for it is a prince's part to pardon ; and Solomon, I am sure, saith, " It is the glory...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...doth but offend the law, but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over, he is superior ; for it is a prince's part to pardon : and Solomon, I am sure, saith, " It is the glory...
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Selections from Jeremy Taylor [and others] designed to assist in forming the ...

Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...upon an implicit ignorance; for all colours will agree in the dark. FORGIVE AND FORGET. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but, in passing it over, he is superior ; for it is a prince's part to pardon : and Solomon, I am sure, saith, " It is the glory...
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Cobb's Spelling Book: Being a Just Standard for Pronouncing the English ...

Lyman Cobb - Spellers - 1842 - 182 pages
...return a kindness and does not, shows a mean ¡•ml contemptible spirit. the English Language. ЬП The sweetest revenge is to do good to our enemies. By taking revenge, a man is but even with his еш.чну ; but in passing «. over, lie is supérieur to him. CUCKOO. Haîl, beawteotis stranger...
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Lives of Celebrated American Indians

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...wild justice — which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior." " The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude." " It...
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