 | 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 "... | |
 | 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 "... | |
 | 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 "... | |
 | 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 "... | |
 | 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 "... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 "... | |
 | 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 '... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
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... 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. 
