| John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...the province of determining; — but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have • passed away -without improvement,...prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose... | |
| John Almon - 1810 - 474 pages
...determining: But surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which .it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose... | |
| John Almon - 1810 - 470 pages
...determining: But surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...determining ;—but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen theconsequences of a thousand errors, continues still tcr blunder, and whose... | |
| H. R. Duff - Scotland - 1815 - 574 pages
...imputed to any man as a reproach ; but the wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is Surely the objedt of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...passed without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions are subsided. The wretch who, having seen the consequences of a thousand errors,...age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely an object of contempt or abhorrence, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insult.... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...as a reproach; but I will affirm that the wretch, who, after having seen the consequence of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...; — but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose... | |
| Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...away without improvement, and vice appear to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch, who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and in whom age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt,... | |
| Caleb Bingham - Readers - 1820 - 226 pages
...assume the province of determining; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement,...appears to prevail, when the passions have subsided. 3. 1 he wretch, who after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder,... | |
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