| Samuel Johnson - 1750 - 296 pages
...threw a brightnefs on their crimes, and whom fcarce any villainy made perfectly deteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies...to be preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 pages
...could be wholly diverted of their.excellencies : but fuch have been, in all ages, the great corruptors of the world; and their refemblance ought no more to be preferved, than the art of murdering without pain.; X. Y. Rambler, vol. i. p, iz, YOUTH. YOUTH is of no long duration ; and in . maturer age, when... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 340 pages
...and whom fcarce any villainy made . perfectly deteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly divefted of their excellencies; but fuch have been in all ages...corrupters of the world, and their refemblance ought no mo* to be preferred, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...threw a brightnefs on their crimes, and whom fcarce any villany made perfeclly dcteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies;...to be preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confcquences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...made pertiCLly detei'u'.ble, becaull. they never could be wholly N»4. THE RAMBLER. 25 wholly divefted of their excellencies; but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupccrs of the world, and their refemblan.ce ought no more to be preferved, than the art of murdering... | |
| Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 pages
...throw a brightnefs on their crimes, and whom fc.irce any villainy made perfeftly deleitable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies...be " preferved, than the art of murdering without pain." — Some have advanced, without due attention to the confequences of this notion, that certain... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...threw a brightnefs on their crimes, and whom fcarce any villany made perfectly deteftable, becaufe they never could be •wholly diverted of their excellencies...to be preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 pages
...whom fcarce any villany nefs on their crimes, and whom Icarce any made perfectly deleitable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies:...the world; and their refemblance ought no more to be preferred than the art of murdering without pain. " In narratives, where hiltorical veracity has no... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...threw a brightnefs on their crimes, and whom fcarce any villany made perfectly deteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies...to be preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the cpnfecjuences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
| 1801 - 342 pages
...their crimes, and whom fcarce any villany made perfeftly deteftable, becaufe they never could bewholly diverted of their excellencies: but fuch have been...to be preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
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