 We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels, pass with little notice. We read the scandal, talk about it for a day, and forget it. But once in...  The University Magazine and Free Review - Page 1421899Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 738 pages
...know about it now, had shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, is but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British...quarrels, pass with little notice. We read the scandal, telk about it for a day, and forget it. But once in six or seven years, our virtue becomes outrageous.... | |
 | 1831 - 470 pages
...know about it now, had shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, is but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British...laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines, that the English people appreciate the importance... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...know about it now, had shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, is but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British...laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines, that the English people appreciate the importance... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...know about it now, had shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, is but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its jR-riodical Qts of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels, pass with little... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1837 - 502 pages
...nothing.' ' You bleed ! ' said Lord Scrope. CHAPTER XVIII. IT has been well observed, that no spectacle is so ridiculous as the British public in one of its...laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines that the English people appreciate the importance... | |
 | 1871 - 608 pages
...raised against Byron ? The most brilliant of our essayists and historians has ' declared that he knew no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in...laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. Accordingly, some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved than hundreds... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...know about it now, had shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, is but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British...laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines, that the English people appreciate the importance... | |
 | 1849 - 606 pages
...pleasant, as in the following well-timed and well-turned admonition of public opinion : " We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in...laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines that the English people appreciate the importance... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...about it now, had shown that for* bearauce, which, under such circumstances, U but common justice. ed a handful of rice for their children. The Hoogley every day rolled down thousands of corpses clo |Iu general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels pass with little notice. We read the scandal,... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...pleasant, as in the following well-timed and well-turned admonition of public opinion : " We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in...divorces, and family quarrels pass with little notice. make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines that the English people appreciate the importance... | |
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