 | Hannah More - 1838 - 544 pages
...One soul-felt sigh hy pow'rless pity given, JM Accepted incense ! shall ascend to heav'n I ;^. - :/ Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foihles springs ; Since life's hest joys consist in peace and ease, And though hut few can serve, yet... | |
 | 1839 - 496 pages
...thought illustrative of the subject. They are from the pen of Hannah More, in a poem on Sensibility. " Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...though but few can serve, yet all may please. О let the' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence ; To spread large bounties,... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - American poetry - 1839 - 452 pages
...well-pleased, record; One soul-felt sigh by powerless pity given, Accepted incense! shall ascend to heaven! Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. To spread large... | |
 | Margaret Coxe - Young women - 1839 - 364 pages
...address to a female disciple of old ; " she hath done what she could." " Since trifles make the sura of human things, And half our misery from our foibles,...ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please ; O let the ungentle spirit learn fiom thence, ' A small unkindness is a great ofTeice." The mild forbearance... | |
 | John N Woodroffe - 1839 - 408 pages
...GENTLENESS. C. Wesley. 2 Cor. x. 1. Gal. v. 22. 1 Thess. ii. 7. 2 Tim. ii. 24. Titus iii. 2. James iii. 17. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please, Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence A small unkindness... | |
 | M. S. - English poetry - 1839 - 194 pages
...peace, Blossom and bloom in every part, With sweet and varied grace. ANON. TEMPER AS IT SHOULD BE. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but all can please ; Oh ! let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small... | |
 | Readers - 1839 - 428 pages
...engraft these qualities upon the solid basis of Christian truth.—Mrs, Sandford. IMPORTANCE OF TRIFLES. SINCE trifles make the sum of human things, And half...Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save, or serve, but all can please: Oh ! let th' ungentle spirit learn, from hence, A small... | |
 | mrs. Marshall - Conduct of life - 1839 - 146 pages
...temper or habit, or bad example, to be cruel or unkind, in thought, word, or deed, to those at home. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our temper springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, yet all... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Conduct of life - 1839 - 204 pages
...than to act one ; no more right to say a rude thing to another, than to knock him down. — JOHNSON. Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from foibles springs — Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And few can save or serve, but... | |
 | Hannah More - English poetry - 1839 - 570 pages
...record; One soul-felt sigh hy pow'rless pity given, Accepted incense! shall ascend to heav'n I Sbu-e trifles make the sum of human things. And half our misery from our foihles springs j Since life's hest joys consist in peace and ease, And though hut few can serve, yet... | |
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness... 
