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" I have endeavoured to make nothing ridiculous that is not in some measure criminal. I have set up the immoral man as the object of derision : in short, if I have not formed a new weapon against vice and irreligion, I have at least shewn how that weapon... "
The European Magazine, and London Review - Page 97
1809
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Select British Classics, Volume 16

1803 - 376 pages
...absurd; or at best, have aimed rather at what is unfashionable than what is vicious. For my own part, I have endeavoured to make nothing ridiculous that is not in some measure criminal. I have set up the immoral man as the object of derision : in short, if I have not formed a new weapon...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...; or, at best, have aimed rather at what is unfashionable, than what is vicious. For my own part, I have endeavoured to make nothing ridiculous that is not in some measure criminal. I have set up the immoral man as the object of derision : in short, if I have not formed a new weapon...
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The Medical observer, Volume 1

1806 - 482 pages
...Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men : Hear this and tremble ! you who 'scape the laws. Pan. \ have endeavoured to make nothing ridiculous that is not in some measure criminal ABBIION. LONDON: Printsd ky C. Slvteer, 3*, Pater-nailer Xttu, FOR S. HIGHLEY, 24, FLEET-STREET. TO...
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The British Essayists, Volume 12

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pages
...have aimed rather at what is unfashionable than what is vicious. For my own part, I have endea. voured to make nothing ridiculous that is not in some measure...if I have not formed a new weapon against vice and irrcligioi), I have at least shown how that weapon may be put to a right use, which has so often fought...
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Four Discourses on Subjects Relating to the Amusement of the Stage: Preached ...

James Plumptre - 1809 - 318 pages
...my own part, I have endeavoured to make nothirrg ridiculous that is not in some measure criminal. I have set up the immoral man as the object of derision...if I have not formed a new weapon against vice and irreligion, I have at least shewn how that weapon may be put to a right use, which has so often fought...
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The Spectator, Volume 7

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 pages
...absurd : or at best, have aimed rather at what is unfashionable than what is vicious. For my own part, I have endeavoured to make nothing ridiculous that is not in some measure criminal. I have set up the immoral man as the object of derision. In short, if I have not formed a new weapon...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 pages
...absurd; or at best, have aimed rather at what is unfashionable than what is vicious. For my own part, I have endeavoured to make nothing ridiculous that is not in some measure criminal. I have set up the immoral man as the object of derision. In short, if I have not formed a new weapon...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 pages
...absurd ; or at best, have aimed rather at what is unfashionable than what is vicious. For my own part, I have endeavoured to make nothing ridiculous that is not in some measure criminal. I have set up the immoral man as the object of derision. In short, if I have not formed a new weapon...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 pages
...absurd ; or at best, have aimed rather at what is unfashionable than what is vicious. For my own part, I have endeavoured to make nothing ridiculous that is not in some measure criminal. I have set up the immoral man as the object of derision. In short, if I have not formed a new weapon...
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The Spectator, no. 315-635

Joseph Addison - 1837 - 478 pages
...have enTHE SPECTATOR. deavoured to make nothing ridiculous that is not in some measure criminal. I have set up the immoral man as the object of derision....if I have not formed a new weapon against vice and irreligion, I have at least shown how that weapon may be put to a right use, which has so often fought...
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