 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 pages
...such have been in all ages the great corruptera of the world, and their resemblance ought no more U> be preserved, than the art of murdering without pain....virtues have their correspondent faults, and therefore that to exhibit cither apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed by Swift to bo "grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 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 :robabilitv. Thus men are observed by Swift to e "grateful... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 624 pages
...in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to he pn served, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have...notion, that certain virtues have their correspondent ('mills, and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are observed... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1863 - 200 pages
...historian has no other labour than of gathering what tradition pours down before him."— B. No. 122. " Some have advanced, without due attention to the consequences...therefore to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability."—R. No. 4. " But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1870 - 230 pages
...historian has no other labour than of gathering what tradition pours down before him." -E. No. 122. " Some have advanced without due attention to the consequences...have their correspondent faults, and therefore to exWnt either apart is to deviate from probability." — R. No. 4. " But, if the power of example is... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1883 - 264 pages
...historian has no other labor than of gathering what tradition pours down before him."—R. No. 122. " Some have advanced, without due attention to the consequences...therefore to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability."—R. No. 4. " But if the power of example is so great as take possession of the memory... | |
 | Robert Waters - 1883 - 616 pages
...historian has no other labor than of gathering what tradition pours down before him."—R. No. 122. "Some have advanced, without due attention to the...therefore to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability."—-R. No. 4. "But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory... | |
 | rev. George Barlow - 1891 - 182 pages
...their excellences ; but such have been in all ages the corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved than the art of murdering without pain. — I have seen men who, I thought, ought to have a whole conversion for each one of their faculties.... | |
 | 1892 - 672 pages
...their excellences ; but such have been in all ages the corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved than the art of murdering without pain. — I have seen men who, I thought, ought to have a whole conversion for each one of their faculties.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...excellencies; but such have been in all ages the great lOcorrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering...pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the consequence of this notion, that certain virtues have their 15 correspondent faults, and therefore... | |
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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... 
