 | 1832 - 698 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 of... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 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... | |
 | 1823 - 886 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 seldom be heartily abhorred." If these observations be just, and to us they appear unanswerable, Richardson's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 474 pages
...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 - 1825 - 526 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, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of ntly deluded. The same detail and the same advice he would have repeated on the second day ; but abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared ; and there arc thousands... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of ius 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, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 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... | |
 | 1847 - 356 pages
...appears it 14 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 seldom be heartily abhorred." Now compare with this admirable rule, one of the principal characters... | |
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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,... 
