 What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man a service? Art thou not content that thou hast done something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it, just as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking?  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - Page 245by Paul Barron Watson - 1884 - 338 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1901 - 622 pages
...confer it absolutely, nor yet in such way as to have received from thy very act all the profit. For what more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...demanded a recompense for seeing or the feet for walking. For as these members are formed for a particular purpose, and by working according to their several... | |
 | Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1899 - 192 pages
...thou not content that thon hast dono something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to bs paid for it, just as if the eye demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking?" 40 STATE NORMAL MONTHLY. THE STATE NORMAL MONTHLY. ISSUED TEN TIMES PRR YEAR. THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 474 pages
...which has produced grapes, and seeks for nothing more after it has once produced its proper fruit. As a horse when he has run, a dog when he has tackled the game, a bee when it has made the honey, so a man when he has done a good act does not call... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 438 pages
...man, then, be one of these, who in a manner acts thus without observing it ? Yes.' And again : — ' What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...a recompense for seeing , or the feet for -walking ? ' Christianity, in order to match morality of this strain, has to correct its apparent offers of... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1903 - 268 pages
...uneasiness. We ought to check in the series of our thoughts everything that is without a purpose and useless. What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...demanded a recompense for seeing or the feet for walking? Have I done something for the general good? Well, then, I have had my reward. Let it not be in any... | |
 | Francis Burdett Money-Coutts - Bible - 1903 - 330 pages
...will he, whether he be poor or rich, engrave on his heart those grand words of Marcus Aurelius : " Art thou not content that thou hast done something...demanded a recompense for seeing or the feet for walking ? " l From these and the like considerations, s«. (j). it is now, I hope plentifully apparent that... | |
 | Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - Readers - 1910 - 298 pages
...confer it absolutely, nor yet in such way as to have received from thy very act all the profit. 5. For what more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...art thou not content that thou hast done something comformable to thy nature, and dost thou seek to be paid for it ? just as if the eye demanded a recompense... | |
 | Mangasar Mugurditch Mangasarian - Bible - 1911 - 280 pages
...than the rewards, either here or in the next world, which the bible held out as inducements to action. What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man a service than the fact of having done it? Art thou not content to have done something conformable to thy nature,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Fiction - 1913 - 376 pages
...man, then, be one of these, who in a manner acts thus without observing it? Yes." 1 And again : — "What more dost thou want when thou hast done a man...demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking ? " 2 Christianity, in order to match morality of this strain, has to correct its apparent offers of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Criticism - 1914 - 502 pages
...more dost thou want when thou hast done a man 40 a service ? Art thou not content that thou hast dono something conformable to thy nature, and dost thou...demanded a recompense for seeing, or the feet for walking ? ' Christianity, in order to match morality of this strain, has to correct its apparent offers of... | |
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