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" Honours and great employments are great burthens, And must require an Atlas to support them. He that would govern others, first should be The master of himself... "
The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of ... - Page 15
by Philip Massinger - 1813 - 347 pages
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The British drama, Volume 1

British drama - 1804 - 954 pages
...for slaves To serve the virtuous. For myself, I know I lonours nndgreat employments areereat burden?, And must require an Atlas to support them. He that...courage. And those remarkable graces which I dare nut Ascribe unto myself. MASSISGEB.] 57 That are not in opinion, but in proof, Really good, and full...
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The British Drama: Tragedies. 2 v

English drama - 1804 - 516 pages
...for slaves To serve the virtuous. For myself, I know Honours andgreat employments aregreat burdens« And must require an Atlas to support them. He that...govern others, first should be The master of himself, ricldy endued With depth of understanding, height of conraur, And those remarkable graces which I dare...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...degrees, He still writes better than the rest, That's of the house that's counted best. Butler. MCCCCXXIV. Honours and great employments are great burthens^...govern others, first should be The master of himself. MassingA: • MCCCCXXV. Whilst the sages are puffing off our distempers in one page of a newspaper,...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...degrees, He still writes better than the rest, That's of the house that's counted best. Sutler. MCCCCXXIV. Honours and great employments are great burthens,...govern others, first should be The master of himself. Massinger. MCCCCXXV. Whilst the sages are puffing off our distempers in one page of a newspaper, the...
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The Plays of Philip Massinger: Adapted for Family Reading, and the ..., Volume 1

Philip Massinger - 1830 - 624 pages
...slaves, To serve the virtuous. For myself, I know Honours and great employments are great burdens, And must require an Atlas to support them. He that...endued With depth of understanding, height of courage, edition of Mac Fleckno, the monarch is placed on a state ; in the subsequent ones, he is seated like...
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Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed ...

Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...prevailing passion.—Ib. 844. Honours and great employments are great burthens, And must require an Mlas to support them. He that would govern others, first should be The master of himself. Massinger. 845. If you seem to have a good opinion of another man's wit, he will allow you to have...
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The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford

Philip Massinger - English drama - 1840 - 768 pages
...tbrKtST67 To serve the virtuous. For mysslfTT lino« Hmronn and great employments are great barthens, And must require an Atlas to support them. He that...understanding, height of courage. And those remarkable grace« which I dare not Ascribe unto myself. Archid. Sir, empty men Are trumpets of their own deserts...
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Familiar Views of Lunacy and Lunatic Life: With Hints on the Personal Care ...

Views, Late Medical Superintendent of an Asylum for the Insane - Great Britain - 1850 - 224 pages
...stupidity or intemperance, and charged, of course, to the account of the patient's refractory disposition. He that would govern others, first should be The master...endued With depth of understanding, height of courage. MASSINOBB'S Bondman. The modes of restraint which it may be expedient or justifiable to use, will be...
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The Opal, Volume 2

1852 - 394 pages
...each other, we must ever bear in mind, in the truthful language of Massinger, that " He that wonld govern others, first should be The master of himself, richly endued With depth of underttanding, height of knowledge." While, therefore, condemning the practical ignorance and quackery...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...births they conclude The only freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean. Massinger. Honors and great employments are great burthens, And must...govern others, first should be The master of himself. Massinger. He is not great, who is not greatly good. Shakspeare. Earth's highest station ends in "...
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