 | 1874 - 590 pages
...improvement ;" and that — we quote the Earl of Chatham's reply to Horace Walpole — the individual "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,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...the province of determining ; but surely »ge may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities humbler lot. Our portion is not large, indeed who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...the province of determining ; but surely »ge may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities $ who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose... | |
 | John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...proVince of determining ; — but surely ag'e/ may become justly conte'mptible, if the opportu'nities/ which it' brings/ have passed away without improvement,...prevail, when the pas'sions have sub'sided. The wret'ch wh'o (after having seen the con'sequences of a thousand e'rrors) continues still to blunder, and whose... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 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,...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.... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 372 pages
...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 errors, continues still to -blunder,... | |
 | Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...passions have subsided. a Chatham, (Earl of;) formerly prime minister of Great Britain. 2. 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 gray hairs should secure him from insult.... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1847 - 400 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,...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.... | |
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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... 
