 God, the Maker of all laws, Who hath commanded us we should not kill. And yet we say we must, for Reputation ! What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done...  The Ladies' Companion - Page 2681865Full view - About this book
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1876 - 764 pages
...scope Is always honour, and the public good, It is no valour for a private cause." Ibid. p. 412. "FBAB to do base unworthy things is valour; If they be done to us, to suffer them Ь valour too." Ibid. " I NBVEB thought an angry person valiant. Virtue is never aided by a vice. What... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1876 - 768 pages
...scope Is always honour, and the public good, It is no valour for a private cause." Ibid. p. 412. "FEAH to do base unworthy things is valour; If they be done to us, to sufler them Is valour too." Ibid. " I v KVER thought an angry person valiant. Virtue is never aided... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 552 pages
...Reputation ! W7iat hottest jnan can cither fear his osvn, Or else will hurt another's reputation ? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour / If they be done to us, to suffer t/iem Is "valour too. BEN JONSOS. I HE Colonel was walking pensively up and down the parlour, when... | |
 | Walter Scott - Astrologers - 1878 - 452 pages
...must, for Reputation I What honest man can either fear his own, Or else will hurt another's reputation? Fear to do base unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too. BEN JONSON. THE Colonel was walking pensively up and down the parlour, when the officious... | |
 | Lucy Bethia Walford - 1880 - 482 pages
...to marry Alice, and I have fallen in love with Kate." CHAPTER XX. THE MAN WOULD NOT LET HER ALONE. " Fear to do base, unworthy things is valour ; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too." — BEN JONSON. Kate was the only one of the family to find out what had happened. It... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1880 - 456 pages
...sufficient competence to be enabled to write his famous History of England. CHAPTER V. COURAGE—ENDURANCE. Fear to do base unworthy things, is valour; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too. BEN JONSON. Give me no light, great Heaven, but such as tuni-j To energy of human fellowship... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...Whose privilege permits my song, My love thus seeret to convey. jUS. VALOUB — sec Contempt, Courage. Fear to do base unworthy things is valour; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too. Ben Jonson, New Inn. Valour employ'd in an ill quarrel, turns To cowardice ; and virtue... | |
 | William C. Holbrook - United States - 1882 - 248 pages
...daily risking their lives never for a moment flagging. " Fear to do base, unworthy things, is valor ; If they be done to us, to suffer them is valor, too—" Most manfully did they bear their part in the long conflict which followed this event, as I can personally... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...is a very fool that will hear nothing gladly but that is according to his mind. — Colet. Courage. Fear to do base unworthy things is valour. If they be done to us, to suffer them is valour too. — Jonson. Courage mounteth with occasion. — Shakespeare. Courtesy. As the tree is known... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...convey. 5444 Bohn: ?*«, VALOR — see Contempt, Courage. Fear to do base unworthy things is valor ; If they be done to us, to suffer them, Is valor too. 5445 Ben Jonson : New Inn. Act iv. Sc- 3. When valor preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with.... | |
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