 | 1860 - 800 pages
...tried for shooting at George the Third ; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty ! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects...limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as it' all his moral powers were perfect. I suppose we must punish evil-doers as we extirpate vermin ;... | |
 | American essays - 1860 - 794 pages
...tried for shooting at George the Third ; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty ! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects...limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect I suppose we must punish evil-doers as we extirpate vermin ; but... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Birthmarks - 1861 - 298 pages
...tried for shooting at George the Third; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty ! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects...limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. I suppose we must punish evil-doers as we extirpate vermin ;... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Calendars - 1889 - 124 pages
...the frost has marred, the sunshine will not mend. To HW LONGFELLOW. 19. Thorwaldsen, 1770. It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects...limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. ELSIE VENNES. 20. Thomas Chatterton, 1752. A pun does not commonly... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - American literature - 1891 - 544 pages
...tried for shooting at George the Third; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty ! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects...limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. I suppose we must punish evil-doers as we extirpate vermin ;... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Authors, American - 1891 - 534 pages
...tried for shooting at George the Third; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects...limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. I suppose we must punish evil-doers as we extirpate vermin ;... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896 - 436 pages
...course make it all right hereafter for the unfortunate, involuntary victim. He said : — " It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects...limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. I suppose we must punish evil-doers as we extirpate vermin ;... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 552 pages
...tried for shooting at George the Third; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects...limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. I suppose we must punish evil-doers as we extirpate vermin ;... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 540 pages
...tried for shooting at George the Third; — lucky for him that he did not hit his Majesty! It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects...limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. I suppose we must punish evil-doers as we extirpate vermin ;... | |
 | John Torrey Morse, Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896 - 410 pages
...course make it all right hereafter for the unfortunate, involuntary victim. He said : — " It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects...limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. I suppose we must punish evil-doers as we extirpate vermin ;... | |
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It is very singular that we recognize all the bodily defects that unfit a man for military service, and all the intellectual ones that limit his range of thought, but always talk at him as if all his moral powers were perfect. I suppose we must punish... 
