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" Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow, And all the rest is leather and prunella. "
An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy, Late of Covent-Garden Theatre - Page 172
by George Anne Bellamy - 1786
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An Apology for the Life of George Anne Bellamy: Late of Covent-Garden ...

George Anne Bellamy - 1785 - 250 pages
...rendering you" more confpicuoufly contemptible. For it is only goodnefs in the extreme, joined to mining talents, and tenacious honour, that conftitutes true...nobility. Mr. Pope, with great judgment, fays, " Worth " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; " And all befides, is leather or prunella." Your...
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A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England: In the Summer of ...

Sir George Head - 1836 - 360 pages
...viewing my own collier's dress, I marched on, {allowing my leader, repeating the lines of the poet, " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, And all the lest is leather and prunella." As we proceeded, my new companion was at some pains to explain to...
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Hints on husband-catching; or, A manual for marriageable misses, by the hon ...

Hints - 1846 - 164 pages
...but a meagre capital on which 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,...
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Dante's Divina Commedia, Volume 3

Dante Alighieri - 1863 - 396 pages
...and frivolities, put the precepts which are quoted above into a neat and epigrammatic form, thus : " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, And all the rest is leather and prunella." And a little later a Scotch ploughman sang : ' ' The rank is but...
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 370 pages
...not: I'm Mrs. Dingley's Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies." Pope has the well known lines, " Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow, And all the rest is leather and prunella." Miss Sinclair also, in her description of the Queen's visit to Scotland,...
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History of English Humour: With an Introduction Upon Ancient Humour, Volume 2

Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 414 pages
...: I'm Mrs. Dingley's Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies." Pope has the well known lines, " Worth makes the man and want of it the fellow, And all the rest is leather and prunella." Miss Sinclair also, in her description of the Queen's visit to Scotland,...
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The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Volume 69

Iron and Steel Institute - 1906 - 634 pages
...would be a long time before the debt of gratitude which the Institute owed to him would be forgotten. " Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, And all the rest is leather and prunella ! " His report that year, he was happy to say, was of a very satisfactory...
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