 ... a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity. Such is not the recompense which Providence has deemed worthy of suffering merit...  Miscellanies - 51. oldalszerző: Harriet Martineau - 1836Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1843 - 376 oldal
...his grave. i A character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp is degraded rather than exalted byin attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity....dangerous and fatal doctrine, to teach young persons that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded... | |
 | John McVickar - 1833 - 92 oldal
...But I do wrong to take this defence out of his own hands— " worldly rewards, says Sir W. Scott, are not the recompense which providence has deemed worthy...dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, that rectitude of conduct and of principle, is either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 404 oldal
...pardoned for extracting it here. He says : — " The character of the fair Jewess found so much favour in the eyes of some fair readers, that the writer...suffering merit ; and it is a dangerous and fatal doctrine ta teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 oldal
...gate ; and to Simplicity Resigns her charge, while Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. MILTON. A CHARACTER of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp is...dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, that rectitude of conduct, and of principle, is either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded... | |
 | 1840 - 566 oldal
...with more of the tone of philosophy than often appears in his writings. " I think," are his words, " a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp,...to teach young persons, the most common readers of romances, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally allied with, or adequately... | |
 | 1842 - 788 oldal
...who would have wished him to reward the lofty character of Rebecca with worldly prosperity : — ' A character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp is...dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally allied with or adequately rewarded... | |
 | 388 oldal
...observes that in his opinion " a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp is degraded, 1 athcr than exalted, by an attempt to reward virtue with...worthy of suffering merit, and it is a dangerous and fetal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes - 1848 - 510 oldal
...the sofa, and reading therefrom the following passage : " To reward virtue with temporal prosperity is not the recompense which Providence has deemed...dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally allied with,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1851 - 606 oldal
...perhaps the noblest passage, in a moral point of view, in all that writer's works — " A character of a lofty stamp is degraded, rather than exalted, by an...suffering merit, and it is a dangerous and fatal doctrine, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded... | |
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