 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 466 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...consequences of this notion, that certain virtues hare their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability.... | |
 | 1823 - 428 pages
...excellencies ; but such have been in all ages the great corruptcrs of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering without pain. Nor is it evident, that even the first motions to these effects are always in the same proportion.... | |
 | 1823 - 886 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 .without pain. " In narratives, where historical veracity has no place, there should be exhibited the most perfect... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 pages
...excellencies ; but such have been in all ages the great corrnpters 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 "... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 530 pages
...all ages the great corruptera of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, Tnan the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the con* sequences of this notion, that certain virtues have their correspondent faults, and, therefore,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1832 - 228 pages
...historian has no other labour than of gathering- what tradition pours down before him."— R. No. 122. " Some have advanced without due attention to the consequences of this notion, that certain virtues have their corresponding faults, and therefore, to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability."— R.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...excellences; but such have been in all ages the great comptera of the world, and their resemblance amuel faulte, and therefore tiiiii to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 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...advanced, without due attention to the consequences of tliis notion, that certain virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit either... | |
 | Rembrandt Peale - 1839 - 276 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 without pain. * * * While men consider good and evil as springing from the same root, they will spare the one for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 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 "grateful... | |
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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... 
