 There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any villainy made perfectly detestable, because they never could be wholly divested of their excellencies; but such have been in all ages...  The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler - Sida 13efter Samuel Johnson - 1792Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 sidor
...villainy made perfectly 'detdftablei, becaufo they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies ; but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...villainy made . perfectly deteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly divefted of their excellencies; but fuch have been in all ages the great 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 sidor
...villany made perfeclly dcteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies; but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters...pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confcquences of this notion, that certain virtues have their correfpondent faults, and therefore that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...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...pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confluences of this notion, that certain virtues have their correfpondent faults, and therefore that... | |
 | Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - 1790 - 482 sidor
...villainy made perfeftly deleitable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies ; but fuch have been in all ages " the great corrupters...confequences of this notion, that certain virtues have their correfponding faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart, is to deviate from probability. Thus... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 sidor
...excellences : but fuch have been in all agss the great corrupters of the world ; and their refemblarae ought no more to be preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. /l*»ili-f- ' £M»~ ^ Some have advanced, without due'attention to the confequences of this notion,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 450 sidor
...Icarce any made perfectly deleitable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies: but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters...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... | |
 | 1801 - 342 sidor
...villany made perfeftly deteftable, becaufe they never could bewholly diverted of their excellencies: but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters...virtues have their correfpondent faults> and therefore i that that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability. Thus men are obferved by Swift... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 sidor
...villany made perfectly deteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies ; but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters...pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the cpnfecjuences of this notion, that certain virtues have their their correfpondent faults, and therefore... | |
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