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" ... made perfectly detestable, because they never could be wholly divested of their excellencies; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering without... "
Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... - Page 157
by Hugh Murray - 1805 - 174 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...excellencies ; but such have been in all ages the great corruptorsof the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering...virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to be "...
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Works, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...excellencies ; but such have been in all ages the great corruptors of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering...consequences of this notion, that certain virtues hava their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 462 pages
...excellencies ; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering...virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to be "...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pages
...excellencies ; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering...virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to be "...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 pages
...corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdermg without pain. . Some have advanced, without due attention...virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to be "...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 pages
...excellencies ; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering...virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to be "...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...excellencies ; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering...virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to be "...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...excellencies ; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering...advanced, without due attention to the consequences consequences of this notion, that certain virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 15-16

British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...excellencies ; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering...virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to be '...
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The British Essayists: Rambler

James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 pages
...excellences; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved than the art of murdering...virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to be "...
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