| Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...and whom scarce any villainy made perfectly detestable, because they never could be whollydivested of their excellencies ; but such have been in all...preserved, than the art of murdering without pain." 5 A Good Conscience makes Patience easier. — "And surely, if we are conscious that we have not contributed... | |
| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 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 "grateful... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 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 "grateful... | |
| Samuel Miller - 1803 - 522 pages
...excellences; 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 without pain."' Estimating novels, then, not as they might be .. made, but as they are in fact, it may be asserted,... | |
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