 | Samuel Johnson - 1750 - 296 trang
...and whom fcarce any villainy made perfectly deteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies ; but fuch have been in all...preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 trang
...and whom fcarce any villainy made perfectly 'detdftablei, becaufo they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies ; but fuch have been in all...to be preferved, than the art of murdering without paifl. • .11 -i- 4 iI 05 SOME SOME have advanced, without due attention to the confequences of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 trang
...could be wholly diverted of their.excellencies : but fuch have been, in all ages, the great corruptors of the world; and their refemblance ought no more...preferved, than the art of murdering without pain.; X. Y. Rambler, vol. i. p, iz, YOUTH. YOUTH is of no long duration ; and in . maturer age, when the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1784 - 340 trang
...whofe endowments threw a brightnefs on their crimes, and whom fcarce any villainy made . perfectly deteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly divefted...corrupters of the world, and their refemblance ought no mo* to be preferred, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 trang
...and whom fcarce any villany made perfeclly dcteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies; but fuch have been in all ages...preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confcquences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...any villany made pertiCLly detei'u'.ble, becaull. they never could be wholly N»4. THE RAMBLER. 25 wholly divefted of their excellencies; but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupccrs of the world, and their refemblan.ce ought no more to be preferved, than the art of murdering... | |
 | Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 trang
...and whom fc.irce any villainy made perfeftly deleitable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies ; but fuch have been in all...preferved, than the art of murdering without pain." — Some have advanced, without due attention to the confequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 trang
...and whom fcarce any villany made perfectly deteftable, becaufe they never could be •wholly diverted of their excellencies ; ' but fuch have been in all...preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 trang
...crimes, and whom Icarce any made perfectly deleitable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies: but fuch have been in all ages...the world; and their refemblance ought no more to be preferred than the art of murdering without pain. " In narratives, where hiltorical veracity has no... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 trang
...threw a brightnefs on their crimes, and whom fcarce any villany made perfectly deteftable, bccaufe they never could be wholly divefted of their excellencies;...preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. • Some have advanced, without due attention to the confequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
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There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any... 
