 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 380 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems : for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but fcarVou IV. C ed ; and there are... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems : for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The llomaa tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but fearVoL. 1. C ed ; and there are... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 376 pages
...stratagems : for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. 'I he Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but...thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore, to be steadily inculcated, that virtue... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 352 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems: for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to bo hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems : for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared ; and there are thousands... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems : for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared ; and there are thousands... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...stratagems : for while it is supported by cither parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was...thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be stea* dily inculcated, that virtue... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, i£ Jie was but feared ; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if theymay be allowed tQ be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 462 pages
...stratagems : for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was...thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems : for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared ; and there are thousands... | |
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Vice, for vice is necessary to be shewn, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, be so united with it, as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices,... 
