 ... supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be...  Thaddeus of Warsaw - Page xiiby Jane Porter - 1806Full view - About this book
 | 1861 - 302 pages
...than repay for all your toil. JK NOTES FEOM MY SCRAP-BOOK. IT ought always to be steadily inculcated that virtue is the highest proof of understanding,...vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts ; that it begins in mistake and ends in ignominy. No habit is more difficultly acquired than that of... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...Mrs. 1'iozzi, and died at an advanced age. APOPHTHEGMS. IT ought always to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding,...vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts ; that it iegins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. No habit is acquired with more difficulty than that... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 pages
...jjd. (6) 827 at£9. 19s. IJd. Exercise in Dictation— II. It ought always to be steadily inculcated that virtue is the highest proof of understanding,...vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts ; that it begins in a mistake and ends in ignominy. Drawing Copy— I. Application of GeometryTrefoil... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 pages
...useless to a man Ventas ^o knew he was not a liar, when he was sober. — Piozzi's Anecdotes, page 261. Virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness. — Rambler, No. 4. All that virtue can afford is quietness of conscience, a steady prospect of a happier... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...to be thought wicked if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding...vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts ; that it begins in mistake and ends in ignominy. Rambler. No. 4. Oats: A GRAIN which in England is... | |
 | Heinrich Schmidt - 1905 - 76 pages
...the good, and extenuates our hatred of the bad. Ra. 54. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding,...vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts ; that it begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. Ra. 4. There seem to be some souls suited to great,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness ; 30 and that vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts; that it begins in mistake, and ends... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...any moral corruption from the splendor of successful wickedness. "It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding,...vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts; that it begins in mistake and ends in ignominy." All this is almost exclusively moral. The author cannot... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...willing to be thought wicked if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated that virtue is the highest proof of understanding,...vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts; that it begins in mistake and ends in ignominy. PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE (selections)1 1765 . . . The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding,...vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts, that it begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. No. 6. Saturday, 7 April 175o. Strenua nos exercet... | |
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