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The Life of Hannah More: With Notices of Her Sisters - Page 386
de Henry Thompson - 1838 - 399 pages
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

1800 - 322 pages
...as a Cresar dead; Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of GOD. Fame but from death a villam's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave; When what...
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The Hive: Or, A Collection of Thoughts on Civil, Moral, Sentimental and ...

1803 - 228 pages
...character, from the sense of his own frailty. An honest man lives not to the world, but to himself. , A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God. There are few persons to be found, but what are more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense,...
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The beauties of the poets: a collection of moral and sacred poetry, compiled ...

Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...dead ; Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's-a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of GOD. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ..., Volume 27

New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...place in every Litany. This was evidently the meaning of the word in the time of Pope, who writes— " A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God." Speaking of the Spectator and Pope reminds me of a circumstance not irrelevant to the present...
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An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to ...

Noah Webster - 1814 - 240 pages
...as a Caesar dead : Alike, or when, or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame, but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When...
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The life and opinions of Thomas Preston

Thomas Preston - 1817 - 68 pages
...with the celebrated Thomas Spence, — an eccentric but hearty and sincere man. I priz'd him, since A Wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God. Poor Spence, like myself, had grappled with bad fortune and like me too, stood the tug of adversity...
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The History of the County Palatine of Chester

J. H. Hanshall - 1817 - 756 pages
...marble — In memory of Sir John Cheeshyre,* who departed this life, on the xv of May, MDCCXXXVIII. Л wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod— An honest man's the noblest work of God. On a similar monument — Near this place lieth the body of Arthur Rawdon, Esq. late of Hallwood,...
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Bath, a satirical novel

Thomas Brown (the elder, pseud.) - 1818 - 714 pages
...considered as the support of the rights of the people ; he is an honest man, and Pope tells us that '* A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod ; " An honest man's the noblest work of God." Talking of wit, that is not his lordship's fort, and we would advise him, now that he is become...
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The American Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 10

1848 - 396 pages
...the man. He' is, like Napoleon Bonaparte, the architect of his own fortunes. ZADOK PRATT. " A wit'M a feather, and a chief's a rod. An honest man's the noblest work of God." THE subject of this memoir was born October 30th, 1790, at Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New...
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Traduction de l'essai sur l'homme de Pope: en vers français, précédée d'un ...

Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 pages
...a Caesar dead ; Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest Man's the noble work of God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As Justice tears his body from the...
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