 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 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... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...determining; hut 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...but surely age may become justly contemptible , if the opportunities which it brings have passed aw^y 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... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 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... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed iway 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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1855 - 444 pages
...of speaking. As soon as Mr. WALPOLE sat down, Mr. PITT got up »nd replied as above. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors,...and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, | ia surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt1, i and deserves not that his grey head1 j... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...improvement', and vice*appears 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.... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 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... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appear to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch...to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy VOL. I. R to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that... | |
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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... 
