 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 218 pages
...regard to the same rules. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by thumps upon your back, How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, — that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. Good manners, in short, are the ornament and defence of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1843 - 406 pages
...The man who hails you Tom — or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. So barren sands imbibe the shower, But render neither fruit... | |
 | John Hall - Elocution - 1845 - 354 pages
...13. The man who hails vou Tom, or Jack', And proves by thumping on your back' His sense of your great merit', Is such a friend that one had need' Be very much his friend indeed', To pardon', or to bear it. 14. Some friends make thisv their prudent plan — Say... | |
 | My youthful companions - 1846 - 170 pages
...be wholly disinterested. ' The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back, How he esteems your merit ; Is such a friend that one had need, Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.' " — COWPER. " Why, Jack," said my Cousin's companion,... | |
 | Emma Pessina - 1846 - 178 pages
...that The man who hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear itBut such is the delusion of the world on this point that you... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...The carving and the gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. As similarity of mind, Or something not to be defined,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...declension. The man who hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. Some friends make this their prudent plan" Say little,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...The carving and the gilding. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. A similarity of mind, Or something not to be defined, First... | |
 | George Etell Sargent - 1851 - 190 pages
...He does not consider that, ' The man who hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back, How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that...to transact business with a superior in wealth or station, it is more than likely he will be needlessly humble, unintentionally insolent, or, at any... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 592 pages
...declension. The man who hails you Tom, or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit; Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon, or to bear it. Some friends make this their prudent plan, Say little,... | |
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The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it. 
