 | Frederic Hervey - 1779 - 550 pages
...either abhorrence or contempt, and deferves not that his grey hairs mould fecure him from cenfure : much more is he to be abhorred; who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with lefs temptation ; who proftitutes himfelf for money,... | |
 | Sir Herbert Croft - 1780 - 326 pages
...abhorrence or contempt^ ; and deferves not that his grey hairs fliould protect him from in-' fuHs : that much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with lefs temptation.— Still, this patron of Offian,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1785 - 518 pages
...either abhorrence or contempt, and deferves not that " his grey head fhould fecure him from infults : much " more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced " in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more " wicked with lefs temptation ; who proflitutes himfelf " for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1787 - 444 pages
...abhorrence or contempt, and deferves not that his grey head fhould fecure him from infults. Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wfkt* w':s temptation ; who pra£iia:es t .i:ic.f tor manry •... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1787 - 422 pages
...abhorrence or contempt, ^nd deferves not that his grey hod ibould fccurc him from infults. Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded From virtue, and becomes more wicked with lefs temptation; who proftitutes himfelf for money... | |
 | 1791 - 302 pages
...either abhorrence or contempt, and deferves not that his grey head mould fecure him from infults : much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with lefs temptation ; who proftitute'S himfe.lf for money... | |
 | John Almon, William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1792
...either abhorrence or contempt, and dcferves not that his grey head fhould fecure him from infults. " « Much more is he to be abhorred who as he has advanced m age has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with lefs temptations i who proftitutes himfelf... | |
 | John Almon - 1793 - 514 pages
...either abhorrence or contempt, and deferves * not that his grey head mould fecure him .* from infults. 4 Much more is he to be abhorred, who, as ' he has advanced in age, has receded from ' virtue,, and becomes more wicked with lefs ' temptation; who proftitutes himfclf for... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1795 - 612 pages
...added obftinacy to ftupidity, defervcs not that his grey hairs fhould fecure him from infult ; and much more is he to be abhorred who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and who deliberately devotes the remnant of his life to the ruin of his country."... | |
 | 1798 - 744 pages
...either abhorrence or contempt, and drferves not that his grey head fhould fecure him from infults. Much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtut, and becomes more wicked with lefs temptation ; who proftitetes liimfelf for money... | |
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The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should... 
