| Tobias Smollett - 1810 - 578 pages
...affirmed, that the wretch, who after having seen the " consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, " and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is " surely the object of either abhorence or contempt, and " deserves not that his grey head should secure him from " insults : much... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...subsided. The wretch who, after having seen theconsequences of a thousand errors, continues still tcr blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 540 pages
...affirm, that Cut: wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy...to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 742 pages
...subsided. The wretch that, after having - seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy...that his grey head should secure him from insults.* * " This celebrated retort of Mr. Pitt existed only in Johnson's imagination, who penned these debates... | |
| William Cobbett - 1812 - 752 pages
...young men, had violently attacked Mr. Horace Walpole, he, in reply, ' lamented that, Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money... | |
| H. R. Duff - 1815 - 572 pages
...reproach ; but the wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy...deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insult : much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and... | |
| H. R. Duff - 1815 - 574 pages
...reproach ; but the wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is Surely the objedt of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...affirm that the wretch, who, after having seen the consequence of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 532 pages
...passions are subsided. The wretch who, having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely an object of contempt or abhorrence, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insult.... | |
| Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he advanced in age,... | |
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