 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 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...when the passions have subsided. — The wretch that, having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, — and whose age has... | |
 | Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 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... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - English literature - 1869 - 344 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 have subBided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - Elocution - 1870 - 204 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,...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.... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 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... | |
 | Angela Gillespie, Member of the Order of the Holy Cross - Elocution - 1871 - 664 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 passions have subsided. 2. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of » thousand errors,... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1872 - 274 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 where the passions have subsided." 6. " I trust myself," said Mr Brougham, " once more in your faithful... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...assume the province of determining ; but surely age may become ustly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to irevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1873 - 348 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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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... 
