 ... have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his...  Time's Telescope - Page 601830Full view - About this book
 | Vicesimus Knox - English essays - 1805 - 320 pages
...thousand errors, continues to blunder, and whose age has only added ob•tinacy to stupidity, is surely an object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves...that his grey hairs should secure him from insult."* " Innovation, Madam, is a term used by the indolent and artful merely as a bugbear. Dismiss it, and... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have • passed away -without improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult.... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 474 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which .it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not .that his grey head should secure him from insults.... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 470 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 578 pages
...reproach; but " he affirmed, that the wretch, who after having seen the " consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, " and whose age...added obstinacy to stupidity, is " surely the object of either abhorence or contempt, and " deserves not that his grey head should secure him from " insults... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 582 pages
...reproach; but " he affirmed, that the wretch, who after having seen the " consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, " and whose age...added obstinacy to stupidity, is " surely the object of either abhorence or contempt, and " deserves not that his grey head should secure him from " insults... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 590 pages
...reproach; but " he affirmed, that the wretch, who after having seen the " consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, " and whose age...added obstinacy to stupidity, is " surely the object of either abhorence or contempt, and " deserves not that his grey head should secure him from ". insults... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when the 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... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1812 - 752 pages
...without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch that, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors,...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults.*... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 540 pages
...reproach ; but I will affirm, that Cut: wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults.... | |
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