 Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays...  The Spectator - Page 48edited by - 1898Full view - About this book
 | Richard Valpy French - 1884 - 442 pages
...jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment,...every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. And more to the same effect. But a passage of his, to be found elsewhere, is far more terribly telling... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1886 - 568 pages
...madness. It often turns the good natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It |ives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable,...not naturally subject. There is more of turn than 30 of truth in a saying of Seneca, That drunkenness does not produce, but discover faults. Common experience... | |
 | Richard Eddy - 1887 - 492 pages
...show itself; it gives fury to the passions, and force to those objects which are apt to produce them Nor does this vice only betray the hidden faults of a man, and show them in the most odious colors, but often discovers faults to which ho is not naturally subject.... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1876 - 324 pages
...jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment,...this vice only betray the hidden faults of a man, and show them in the most odious ' colours, but often occasions faults to which he is not naturally sub244... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment,...displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost defbrmitv. — Addison. Wine and youth are fire upon fire. — Fielding. Look not thou upon the wine... | |
 | A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 pages
...jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment,...this vice only betray the hidden faults of a man, and show them in the most odious colors, but often occasions faults to which he is not naturally subject.... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 476 pages
...jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment,...this vice only betray the hidden faults of a man, and show them in the most odious colours, but often occasions faults to which he is not naturally subject.... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1906 - 880 pages
...TEMPERANCE PEARLS FROM MANY AUTHORS. Wine turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment,...every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity. Addison. 0, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains ! Slutkupearf.... | |
 | John Hamilton Moore - 1806 - 402 pages
...into madness. It often turns the good matured man into an idiot, and the choleric into anassassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity...insupportable, and displays every little spot of the 9. Nor docs this vice only betray the hidden faults of a man, and shew them inmost odious colours,... | |
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