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" Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. "
Crime: Its Nature, Causes, Treatment, and Prevention - Page 144
by Sanford Moon Green - 1889 - 346 pages
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Stories of school boys

Stories - 1799 - 188 pages
...alas ! too soon broken through. So true is it that — " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar grows her face : We first endure, then pity, then embrace." One day a few of the older boys of the...
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Letters from Mrs. Palmerstone to Her Daughter: Inculcating ..., Volume 2

Rachel Hunter - 1803 - 234 pages
...the mind : there is a time when, in regard to all, you may fay with the poet, Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen. But this {late of moral rectitude will not fuffice to.keep offthe incroachments of vice. She is too fubtle...
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Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of two noble families, Volume 2

Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 274 pages
...the triumph of vanity. VOL. II. K CHAP. CHAP. XXXII. Vice is a monster of such hideous mein, As to be hated needs but to be seen, But seen too oft familiar grows her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. PERHAPS vice is never more certain...
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A History of the West Indies: Containing the Natural, Civil, and ..., Volume 2

Thomas Coke - 1810 - 478 pages
...it in a state of purity. But this, at present, is rather an object of our wishes than our hopes. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, :• As to be hated, needs but to be seen." Whether, therefore, self interest, or a better motive, shall be made the medium of illumination,...
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Rose and Emily, Or, Sketches of Youth

Mrs. Roberts (Margaret Wade) - 1812 - 312 pages
...would be able to resist all its attractions ; and, under any disguise it might assume, to find it, ' A monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, .needs but to be seem" But, my dear Sir, whoever may have the happiness of being selected as the companion of...
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Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with ..., Volume 1

1814 - 568 pages
...who would keep his morals untainted, must not associate familiarly with the debauched and wicked. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As to be...be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first admire, next pity, then embrace." The fox, when he first saw a lion, ran from him in great...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 pages
...nor one grain of gold which we did not buy in Hatton Garden t Ex uno discs.. In vain Pope wrote : " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen," becanse, though fresh from any villany, our looking-glass shews us no such fright. Some...
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Rose and Emily; Or Sketches of Youth

Margaret Roberts - 1815 - 308 pages
...would be able to resist all its attractions; and, under any disguise it might assume, to find it, ' A monster of such frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen.' But, my dear Sir, whoever may have the happiness of being selected as the companion of'your daughter, you,...
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The watchman

James A. Maitland - 1816 - 330 pages
...disquiet their peaceful dreams. CHAPTER XXI. THE PORGEK. " Vice ia a monster of so foul a mien As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." " I AM sure there M something the matter, George,"...
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The baptist Magazine

1818 - 510 pages
...guilt and danger of actually committing it vanish. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, A» to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first begin to pity, then embrace." 4. Excuses are invented for the indulgence of the...
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