...as a Cresar dead; Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of GOD. Fame but from death a villam's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave; When what...

...character, from the sense of his own frailty. An honest man lives not to the world, but to himself. , A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God. There are few persons to be found, but what are more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense,...

...dead ; Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's-a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of GOD. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When...

...place in every Litany. This was evidently the meaning of the word in the time of Pope, who writes— " A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God." Speaking of the Spectator and Pope reminds me of a circumstance not irrelevant to the present...

...as a Caesar dead : Alike, or when, or where they shone or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. Fame, but from death a villain's name can save, As justice tears his body from the grave ; When...

...with the celebrated Thomas Spence, — an eccentric but hearty and sincere man. I priz'd him, since A Wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod, An honest man's the noblest work of God. Poor Spence, like myself, had grappled with bad fortune and like me too, stood the tug of adversity...

...marble — In memory of Sir John Cheeshyre,* who departed this life, on the xv of May, MDCCXXXVIII. Л wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod— An honest man's the noblest work of God. On a similar monument — Near this place lieth the body of Arthur Rawdon, Esq. late of Hallwood,...

...considered as the support of the rights of the people ; he is an honest man, and Pope tells us that '* A wit's a feather and a chief's a rod ; " An honest man's the noblest work of God." Talking of wit, that is not his lordship's fort, and we would advise him, now that he is become...

...the man. He' is, like Napoleon Bonaparte, the architect of his own fortunes. ZADOK PRATT. " A wit'M a feather, and a chief's a rod. An honest man's the noblest work of God." THE subject of this memoir was born October 30th, 1790, at Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New...

...a Caesar dead ; Alike or when, or where, they shone, or shine, Or on the Rubicon, or on the Rhine. A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest Man's the noble work of God. Fame but from death a villain's name can save, As Justice tears his body from the...