...smile sarcastically, and thus unfeelingly belittle their honest efforts to relieve the sufferer. " Be to their faults a little blind, And to their virtues very kind." Your cordial approval of their simples, used in good faith with true and loving motives, will greatly...

...with 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...

...and right feeling should combine in disposing us to be 1845.] OSWALD I1ERBST S LETTERS FROM ENGLAND. To their faults a little blind, And to their virtues very kind. Britain and the United States contain nearly all the true religion that is to be found in the world....

...hostile attitude towards us on all possible occasions. On the contrary, we should try another plan, and " be to their faults a little blind " and " to their virtues very kind." M. Novicow's instances of England's (he speaks of us as "England") gratuitous hostility to Russia,...

...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...

...be dull for a moment. Would you be happy in this world ? Be full of sympathy for the human race, ' to their faults a little blind, and to their virtues very kind ' ; never let pass through your lips or drop from your pen any biting criticism which may offend a...

...amassed; reproves ill-natured judgement of one's neighbours almost in the words of Prior, bidding us be to their faults a little blind and to their virtues very kind, softening their moral blemishes as lovers and mothers euphemize a dear one's physical defects. (Sat....

...so pleasantly for the traveller who takes Kingsley's advice, and towards his fellow-passengers is " To their faults a little blind, And to their virtues very kind." The itinerary of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company is subject to variation, but at present the vessels...

...passed early in the 15th century to suppress them on the ground of public safety. Let us be, then, " to their faults a little blind, and to their virtues very kind," for they give little thought for the morrow, what they shall eat or wherewithal they shall be clothed,...

...avoided. Such ones are "freaks," we cannot get rid of them, but (as a cross) we can bear with them "being to their faults a little blind and to their virtues very kind." Emmerson has told us: "The past we cannot recall; the future we cannot secure; today (only'' is ours."...