| 1803 - 434 pages
...philosopheu 1 contemplates two or three hours every day over a 1 sun-dial ; and is true to the dial As the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. 1 Our younger students are content to carry their spe1 dilations as yet no farther than bowling greens,... | |
| 1803 - 420 pages
...philosopher ' contemplates two or three hours every clay over a ' sun-dial ; and is true to the dial As the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon. Our younger students are content to carry their speculations as yet no farther than bowling-greens,... | |
| 1806 - 312 pages
...horrouf o'er ' the woods." FRIENDSHIP. HUDIBRAS beautifully tells us, that a sin* cere friend is " True as the dial to the sun, " Although it be not shone upon." And another observer of life very philosophically says, " A false friend is like the shadow on a sun-dial,... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...than to any other in the history of these kingdoms : Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shincd upon L We cannot refuse ourselves the pleasure of transcribing a passage, which exhibits in... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...might receive, we should still have the consolation being like Butler's steady and generous Royalist, " True as the dial to the sun, " Although it be not shone upon." We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. Nowell's, where was a very agreeable company; and we... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...^receive, we should still have the consolation of being like Butler's -steady and generous Royalist, " True as the dial to the sun, " Although it be not shone upon." We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. NowelPs, where was a very agreeable company ; and we... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 606 pages
...enough to ruin any cause, would have made many a man . retire in disgust, if not actually change. But 41 Loyalty is still the same Whether it lose or win the...the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." 1 Derby's loyalty was of that exalted, pure, and simple character, which was ready to suffer all things,... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...philosopher contemplates two or three hours every day ever a sun-dial ; and is true to the dial, " As the dial to the sun, Although it be not shone upon." Our younger students are content to carry their speculations as yet no farther than bowling-greens,... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 412 pages
...defeated, Nor from their oaths and faith retreated : For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon. But when these Brethren in evil, Their adversaries, and the devil, Began once more to... | |
| Samuel Butler, Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 456 pages
...defeated, Nor from their oaths and faith retreated : For loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon. But when these Brethren in evil, Their adversaries, and the devil, Began once more to... | |
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