 Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining ; — but surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appears...  The Congressional Globe - Page 629by United States. Congress - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...ignorant in spite of experience. Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining ; — but surely...improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...ignorant .in spite of experience. Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining ; — but surely...improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who. after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, sir, assume the province of determining; but surely ago may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities...improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining ; — but surely age may beeome justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it...improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1853 - 456 pages
...are ignorant in spite of experience. I Whether youth can be imputed to a<ny man as a reproach, 1 1 will not assume the province of determining : | but...| and vice appears to prevail | when the passions have subsided. | * This illustrious father of English Oratory, having expressed himself, in the House... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...that number, who are ignorant in spite of experience. Whether youffi* can be imputed to a man aa a reproach', I will not assume the province of determining';..., if the opportunities which it brings have passed aw^y without improvement', and vice* appears to prevail', when the passions' have subsided*. The wretch*,... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, sir, assume the province of determining; hut surely age may become justly contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...ignorant in spite of experience. Whether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, sir, assume the province of determining; but surely age...improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch who (after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors), continues... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...ignorant in spite of experience \Vhether youth can be imputed to any man as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining ; — but surely...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed iway without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch who.... | |
 | Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...| in spite of experience. Whether youth can be imputed to any man | as a reproach, I will not, Sir, assume the province of determining; but surely age...brings | have passed away without improvement, and vice pear to prevail, when the passions have subsided •* Section 2 Fhe wretch, who, after seeing the consequences... | |
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