 I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised...  The Rambler, by S. Johnson - Page 201806Full view - About this book
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 450 pages
...not angelical nor above probability, for what we cannot feel we shall never imitate, hut the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which exercised...what we can perform. Vice, for vice is necessary to he shewn, should always disgust ; nor should the graces of gayety, or the dignity of courage, be so... | |
 | Miss Stockdale (Mary R.), Mary R. Stockdale - 1821 - 454 pages
...evangelical nor above probability — for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate ; but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised...revolutions of things shall bring upon it, may, by comparing some calamities, and by enduring others, teach us what we may hope, and what we can perform."... | |
 | Mary R. Sterndale - 1821 - 886 pages
...evangelical nor above probability — for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate; but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised...various revolutions of things shall bring upon it, may, bycomparing some calamities, ami by enduring others, teach us what we may hope, and what we can perform."... | |
 | 1823 - 428 pages
...angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which exercised...we can perform. Vice, for vice is necessary to be shown, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, bo so united... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 pages
...angelical nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we sball never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach; which, exercised...we can perform. Vice, for vice is necessary to be shown, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety or the dignity of courage be so united... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which exercised...we can perform. Vice, for vice is necessary to be shown, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, be so united... | |
 | 1832 - 698 pages
...angelical, nor above probability — for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate — but the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised...we can perform. Vice, for vice is necessary to be shown, should always disgust, nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, he so united... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 466 pages
...angelical nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach ; which, exercised...what we may hope and what we can perform. Vice, for viqa.iMiecessarj^ to be shown, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety or the dignity... | |
 | 1823 - 886 pages
...never imitate), hut the highest and purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such tiials as the various revolutions of things shall bring upon...calamities and enduring others, teach us what we may, hope, anil what we can perform. Vice (for vice is ncj Кг . . . cesiary t The author of La jolie femme,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 pages
...angelical, nor above probahility, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and i purest that humanity can reach, which, exercised in such trials as the various revolution of things shall bring upon it, may, by conquering some calamities, and enduring others,... | |
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