...centuries of bondage, and ignorance, and persecutions, we gladly comply with the bidding of the poet, to " Be to their faults a little blind, And to their virtues very kind;" Lut the practical evil as regards the effect on the Moslem mind is not thereby abated. In this connexion,...

...and liberal manner to conciliate them, it becomes us of the Caucasian stock in all time hereafter to Be to their faults a little blind, And to their virtues very kind, Hanging a padlock on the mind. I have mentioned the man Hardwick that took the most prominent part...

...charmed; wonder they dislike you ! Think of that, and, as a preliminary to a new union, stop it. " Be to their faults a little blind, and to their virtues very kind," is a mighty safe diplomatic maxim for the highest men in the Government, and for all their followers....

...seat of justice, and superstition was the counselor and guide of leading men, should cause us to " Be to their faults a little blind, And to their virtues, very kind." Roger Williams, himself a Puritan minister, and victim of persecution in England, was among those who...

...the seat of justice, and superstition was the counselor and guide of leading men, should cause us to "Be to their faults a little blind, And to their virtues, very kind." Roger Williams, himself a Puritan minister, and victim of persecution in England, was among those ^'ho...

...different characters and temperaments. Adopt Matthew Prior's advice for the treatment of a young lady, and "Be to their faults a little blind, And to their virtues very kind." Teach them to confide in and trust you, and make them feel you are their friend in any trouble, and...

...our faults ; and I venture to think that Dr. Begg gives a one-sided view of them and of us. He is " to their faults a little blind, and to their virtues very kind," while he brings his seeing eye to bear upon our faults, and turns his blind one towards our virtues....

...remember what is due to the parent ; the parent should seek to retain their love and reverence by being ' to their faults a little blind and to their virtues very kind ; ' freely according to each when maturity arrives the same independent existence and the same exclusive...

...linking of the arm ; ' educate them, eradicate their false ideals, dispel their foolish prejudices; be to their faults a little blind and to their virtues very kind : in fine, realise that you have a mission — that these wretches are not here for nothing. The task...

...Harvard. He had but one motto, which he universally applied in his treatment of the undergraduates: 'Be to their faults a little blind, and to their virtues very kind, and clap the padlock on the mind." "When from there I proceeded to the law school a similar state of...