 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...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 age has on15 ly added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...— but surely age may become justly con10 temptible, 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... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1829 - 234 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. The wretch, who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errours, continues still to blunder,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1830 - 472 pages
...without improvement, and vice appeal's to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch, who after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors,...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult.... | |
 | Benjamin Waterhouse - Great Britain - 1831 - 482 pages
...assume 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... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1831 - 692 pages
...assume the province of determining; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions should have subsided, lie who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1831 - 688 pages
...assume the province of determining; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions should have subsided. He who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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,... | |
 | James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 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...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt; and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults.... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...a reproach ; but I will affirm that the wretch who, after having seen the consequences 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 grey head should secure him from insults.... | |
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Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, sir, assume the province of determining; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail... 
