 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 584 pages
...more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes...of his life in the ruin of his country. But youth, sir, is not my only crime ; I have been accused of acting a theatrical part — a theatrical part may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 552 pages
...more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes...of his life in the ruin of his country. But youth, sir, is not my only crime ; I have been accused of acting a theatrical part — a theatrical part may... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1825 - 234 pages
...more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becon.es more wicked with less temptation ; who prostitutes...cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the vuin of his country. 5. But youth, Sir, is not my only crime; I have been accused of a;- tiny a theairical... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1831 - 692 pages
...becomes more wicked with less temptation! who prostitutes himself for a reward which he never can hope to enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country." But after all, said Mr. A., is this an affair of such moment as to justify the vindictive feeling which... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...receded from virtue; who becomes more wicked with less temptation; who prostitutes himself for money he cannot enjoy ; and spends the remains of his life...ruin of his country. But youth is not my only crime : 1 am accused of acting a theatrical part. A theatrical part may either imply some peculiarities of... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...with less temptation ; who prostitutes himself for money he cannot enjoy ; and spends the remains pf his life in the ruin of his country. But youth is not my only crime: I am accused of acting a theatrical part. A theatrical part may either imply some peculiarities of gesture,... | |
 | John Henry Howlett - Elocution - 1826 - 342 pages
...emphasis : thus, in the famous reply of the first William Pitt to Mr. Walpole, " But youth, it seems, is not my only crime ; I have been accused of acting a theatrical part ;" neither the word acting, nor the word theatrical, nor the word part, taken separately, designates... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...he to be abhorred, who, as he advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked 20 with less temptation ;—who prostitutes himself for...of his life in the ruin of his country. But youth, sir, is not my only crime; I have been accused of acting a. theatrical part. A theatrical part may... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country. But youth, sir, is not my only crime ; I have been accused of acting...theatrical part. A theatrical part may either imply 25 some peculiarities of gesture, or a dissimulation of my real sentiments, and an adoption of the... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...is lib to be abhorred — who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes mbre wicked with less temptation : who prostitutes himself...which he cannot enjoy\ and spends the remains of his liie in the ruin of his country. But youth is not my only crime. I have been accused of acting a theatrical... | |
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