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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... "
The Percy anecdotes, by Sholto and Reuben Percy. (Eloquence). - Page 62
by Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...improvement, and vice appear to prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch, who after seeing the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still...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....
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The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book

Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 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,...
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The British orator

Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 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,...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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...
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The New American Speaker: A Collection of Oratorical and Dramatical Pieces ...

John Celivergos Zachos - Elocution - 1851 - 570 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...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 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,...has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the objeet of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...assume the province of determining; but surely ago 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...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 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...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 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...
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Select British Eloquence; Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 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...
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