 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
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 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 gray hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, Sir, is he... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 trang
...— but surely age may beeome justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail...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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 trang
...determining : but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail...continues still to blunder, and whose age has only addod obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and 3 " Certainly... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 trang
...determining; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail...thousand errors continues still to blunder, and whose age b.is only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of cither abhorrence or contempt, and... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 trang
...determining ; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed le its interior yielded all its little savings to...spirit of freedom which actuated that people at first, contempt, and 1 " Certainly his (Henry the Seventh's) times for cood commonwealth's laws did excel,... | |
 | J H. Aitken - 1853 - 378 trang
...determining; hut surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail...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.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 trang
...but surely age may become justly contemptible , if the opportunities which it brings have passed aw^y without improvement', and vice* appears to prevail',...added obstinacy* to stupidity', is surely the object cither of abJiorrence' or contempt*, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult.... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 516 trang
...a reproach ; but I will affirm, that 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 insulte. Much more is he to be... | |
 | 1854 - 576 trang
...but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed iway without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when...stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, Sir, is he... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 trang
...determining; but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail,...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from •nsult.... | |
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