 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 pages
...himself as he can against his own sensibility, endeavours to practise on others the arts which'are practised on himself; and gains the kindness of his...their misery, and others survive only to propagate villany. It may be hoped, that our lawgivers will at length take away from us this power of starving... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 pages
...evil : they are filled with every corruption which poverty and wickedness can generate between them ; with all the shameless and profligate enormities that...misery, and others survive only to propagate villainy. It may be hoped, that our lawgivers will at length take away from us this power of starving and depraving... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 610 pages
...impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the publick eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there...their misery, and others survive only to propagate villany, It may be hoped, that our lawgivers will at length take away from us this power of starving... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 pages
...impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the publick eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there...their misery, and others survive only to propagate villany. It may be hoped, that our lawgivers will at length take away from us this power of starving... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 pages
...impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the publick eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent; there...their misery, and others survive, only to propagate villany. It may be hoped, that our lawgivers will at length take away from us this power of starving... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 510 pages
...is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The le•vd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious....their misery, and others survive only to propagate villany. It may be hoped, that our lawgivers will at length take away from us this power of starving... | |
 | Samuel Parr - Theology - 1828 - 796 pages
...fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility; endeavours to practise on others the arts which he practised on himself; and gains the kindness of his associates by similitude of manners."* It is singular enough that the punishment for private stealing by hard labour, which has lately been... | |
 | Frederic William Naylor Bayley - Correctional institutions - 1835 - 334 pages
...audacious harden the audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility, and endeavours to practise on others the arts which are...misery, and others survive only to propagate villainy. It may be hoped that our law-givers will at length take away from us this power of starving and depraving... | |
 | Books - 1835 - 618 pages
...audacious harden the audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility, and endeavours to practise on others the arts which are...their misery, and others survive only to propagate villany. It may be hoped that our law-givers will at length take away from us this power of starving... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility, endeavours to prictise on others the arts which are practised on himself;...associates by similitude of manners. Thus some sink amid their misery, and others survive only to propagate villany. It may be hoped that lawgivers will... | |
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In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one fortifies himself as he can against his own sensibility,... 
