 | Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 pages
...venustas. One more of these dark pictures. " The heart," says Lord Chesterfield, "never grows better by age ; I fear rather worse ; always harder. A young...be a greater knave as he grows older. But should a bud young heart, accompanied with a good head, (which by the way very seldom is the case) really reform,... | |
 | 1867 - 230 pages
...; but they do not forgive the least vice of the heart. The heart never grows better by age ; I fear worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old...greater knave as he grows older. But should a bad young heart, accompanied with a good head (which by the way is very seldom the case) really reform in a more... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1876 - 636 pages
...of the senses ; but they do not forgive the least vice of the heart. The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar...greater knave as he grows older. But should a bad young heart, accompanied with a good head, (which by the way very seldom is the case.) really reform in a... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. — Montaigne. The heart never grows better by age : I fear rather worse ; always harder. A young...knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. — Chesterfield. There is only one quarter of an hour in human life passed ill, and that is between... | |
 | 1878 - 632 pages
...of the senses ; but they do not forgive the least vice of the heart. The heart never grows better by age ; I fear rather worse ; always harder. A young...one ; and a young knave will only be a greater knave ns he grows older. But should a bad young heart, accompanied with a good head, really reform in a more... | |
 | French examination papers - 1881 - 322 pages
...of the senses ; but they do not forgive the least vice of the heart. The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse ; always harder. A young liar will be aîi old one ; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. But should a bad young... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1891 - 296 pages
...of the senses ; but they do not forgive the least vice of the heart. The heart never grows better by age ; I fear rather worse, always harder '. A young...greater knave as he grows older. But should a bad young heart, accompanied with a good head (which, by the way, very seldom is the case), really reform in... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 528 pages
...of the senses ; but they do not forgive the least vice of the heart. The heart never grows better by age ; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young...greater knave as he grows older. But should a bad young heart, accompanied with a good head, (which, by the way, very seldom is the case,) really reform in... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 514 pages
...of the senses ; but they do not forgive the least vice of the heart. The heart never grows bettor by age ; I fear rather worse, always harder.* A young...liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only bo a greater knave as he grows older. But should a bad young heart, accompanied with a good head (which,... | |
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... of the heart. The heart never grows better by age ; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. But should a bad young heart, accompanied with a good head,... 
