 | Walter Gore Marshall - 1881 - 530 Seiten
...as follows : TO GENTLEMEN. It chills my blood to hear the Blest Supreme Rudely appealed to, on each trifling theme. Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise...nor wise. You would not swear upon a bed of death ; Reflect ! your Maker now may stop your breath. New York is particularly well provided with public... | |
 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1885 - 294 Seiten
...speaks of the vice, thus : "It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme, Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme ! Maintain your rank ; vulgarity despise...brave, polite, nor wise. You would not swear upon the bed of death ; Reflect ! your Maker now could stop your breath." Thus is it with dishonesty. No... | |
 | Knights Templar (Masonic order). Grand Commandery (Mich.) - 1885 - 314 Seiten
...growing evil of profanity. " It chills my blood to hear the blessed Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme ; Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise ; To swear is neither brave, polite nor wise." In our induction into the Lodge, we professed a trust in God. As we advanced in the ancient mysteries,... | |
 | Madison Clinton Peters - 1886 - 188 Seiten
...impolite. Cowper once wrote : " It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme, Lightly appealed to on each trifling theme ; Maintain your rank ; vulgarity despise ; To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise." Can he who leads every sentence with an oath or a curse, wear the name and garb of a gentleman ? This... | |
 | Richard Newton - 1887 - 414 Seiten
...English poets, who says — " It chills my blood to hear the great Supreme, Lightly appealed to, on each trifling theme. Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise: To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise." Our next story may be called — THE MINISTER'S REPKOOF. A Lieutenant in the English army had gotten... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1890 - 150 Seiten
...he is himself profane ? -" It chills my heart to hear the blest Supreme Lightly appealed to on each trifling theme. Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise. To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise." — COWPER. QUESTIONS. What is profanity? Is it common ? Is it right or wrong? Do we easily fall into... | |
 | Charles Northend - 1890 - 224 Seiten
...39. Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, — to forgive divine. — Pope. 40. Maintain your rank ; vulgarity despise ; To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise. 41. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. — Bible. 42. Liberty consists... | |
 | 1891 - 556 Seiten
...without having In one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of. iStnnislau«. SWEARING. Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise, To swear is...nor wise, You would not swear upon a bed of death — Reflect — your Maker now may stop your breath. Anonymout. ADMONITION AGAINST. Swear not at all:... | |
 | Tract Association of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1893 - 636 Seiten
...Philadelphia. PROFANE SWEARING. " It chills my blood, to hear the bless'd Supreme Rudely appeal'd to, on each trifling theme ; Maintain your rank — vulgarity...nor wise. You would not swear upon a bed of death — • Reflect ! your Maker now could stop your breath." — Cowper. UNDER this head, we include all... | |
 | Joseph Williamson - 1896 - 686 Seiten
...[8317 PBOFANE SWEARING (ON). " It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appeal'd to, on each trifling theme! Maintain your rank; vulgarity despise;...nor wise; You would not swear upon a bed of death ; Reflect! Your Maker now could stop your breath." Kennebunk: Printed by James K. Remick. 1832. 12mo.... | |
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appeal'd to on each trifling theme; Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise, To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise; You would not swear upon a bed of death: Reflect! 
