 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...  Prose extracts [&c.]. - Trang 9được biên tập bởi - 1885Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 trang
...but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have • passed away -without improvement, and vice appears to prevail,...stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, .Sir, is he... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 474 trang
...determining: But surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which .it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail...stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not .that his grey head should secure him from insults. ' Much more is he to... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 470 trang
...determining: But surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail...stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. r ' Much more is he to... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1810 - 590 trang
...reproach; but " he affirmed, that the wretch, who after having seen the " consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, " and whose age...obstinacy to stupidity, is " surely the object of either abhorence or contempt, and " deserves not that his grey head should secure him from ". insults : much... | |
 | David Hume - 1810 - 582 trang
...reproach; but " he affirmed, that the wretch, who after having seen the " consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, " and whose age...obstinacy to stupidity, is " surely the object of either abhorence or contempt, and " deserves not that his grey head should secure him from " insults : much... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1810 - 578 trang
...reproach; but " he affirmed, that the wretch, who after having seen the " consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, " and whose age...obstinacy to stupidity, is " surely the object of either abhorence or contempt, and " deserves not that his grey head should secure him from " insults : much... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 trang
...determining ;—but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail,...passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen theconsequences of a thousand errors, continues still tcr blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 540 trang
...reproach ; but I will affirm, that Cut: wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. Much more is he to be... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1812 - 752 trang
...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, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose... | |
 | H. R. Duff - 1815 - 572 trang
...imputed to any man as a reproach ; but the wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insult : much more is he to be... | |
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