 | David Hume - 1810 - 582 pages
...undertake to determine whether youth " could be justly imputed to any man as a reproach; but " he affirmed, that the wretch, who after having seen the " consequences...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 pages
...undertake to determine whether youth " could be justly imputed to any man as a reproach; but " he affirmed, that the wretch, who after having seen the " consequences...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 - 590 pages
...undertake to determine whether youth " could be justly imputed to any man as a reproach; but " he affirmed, that the wretch, who after having seen the " consequences...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... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 470 pages
...prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. r ' Much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, .Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced... | |
 | John Almon - 1810 - 474 pages
...prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not .that his grey head should secure him from insults. ' Much more is he to he abhorred, who, as he has advanced... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinancy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults : much move i« he to be abhorred, who as he advanced in age,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...subsided. The wretch who, after having seen theconsequences of a thousand errors, continues still tcr blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 540 pages
...whether youth can justly be imputed VOL. XXV. B to any man as a reproach ; but I will affirm, that Cut: wretch who, after having seen the consequences of...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. Much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1812 - 752 pages
...when the passions have subsided. The wretch that, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults.* * " This celebrated retort of Mr. Pitt existed only in Johnson's... | |
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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 of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should... 
