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" I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. "
A New and Literal Translation of Juvenal and Persius: With Copious ... - Page 287
by Juvenal, Martin Madan - 1829
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Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Letters to Charles Butler, Comprising Essays ...

Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 562 pages
...once the monareh acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunello. Essay on Man. with wonder-workers, and persecutors, and traitors. . What, Sir, are we to...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with stringy, That thou may'st be by kings, or whores of kings....
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A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Persius; with notes by M. Madan ...

Juvenal - 1829 - 334 pages
...a man is in himself, not what his ancestors were, is the great matter to be considered. Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow ; The rest is all...IX. ARGUMENT. Juvenal, in this Satire, exposes and vensures the detestable vive then practised at Rome. Some have thought that this is done too openly....
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 18

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...Barb. Lat. prunella. A kind of stuff of which clergymen s gowns are made. Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or pnmello. Pope. PRUNING, in gardening and agriculture, is the lopping off the superfluous branches of...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...wad uiuriallywouuded ut Zutpheo. ' IMÍ . . . 22. Jfib6 {spa trufe). Worth makes the man, and wan* miseries that threaten human nature : let us therefore rejo . . . But by your father's worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow: . The rest is all but leather or prunello. 27 Stuck o'er with titles and hung round with strings, x That thou may'st be by kings, or...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...never endanger his far it. Yours, my dear friend, WC humility. Pope says truly Worth makes tho man, and want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather or prunello. Again — ' Rich and splendid situations in the church have been justly regarded OB prizes,...
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The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential ...

Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow: The rest is all but leather or prunello. Stuck o'er with titles arid hung round with strings, That thou may'st be by kings, or whores...
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Works: Life and Letters, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1835 - 382 pages
...cap of his diocesan will never endanger his humility. Pope says truly — Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella. Again — " Rich and splendid situations in the church have been justly regarded as prizes, held out...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 13

English literature - 1835 - 596 pages
...of his diocesan will never endanger his humility, " Pope savs truly — ' Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.' " Again — ' Rich and splendid situations in the church have been justly regarded as prizes, held...
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