 | Vicesimus Knox - 1805 - 320 oldal
...the consequence* of a thousand errors, continues to blunder, and whose age has only added ob•tinacy to stupidity, is surely an object either of abhorrence...Innovation, Madam, is a term used by the indolent and artful merely as a bugbear. Dismiss it, and adopt improvement in its place; for I would have no innovation... | |
 | John Sabine - 1810 - 308 oldal
...still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, .Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has reK. cede<J ceded from virtue,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 oldal
...still tcr blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 oldal
...still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 276 oldal
...to stupidity, is surely an object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult*.' ' " Innovation,...innovation which is not, after mature deliberation, clearly shewn to be an improvement. Place the word improvement in the room of innovation in your favourite... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 oldal
...wretch, who having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves...that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue; who becomes... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 oldal
...wretch, who having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves...that , his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue ; who becomes... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 oldal
...to blunder, and whose age has on15 ly added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes... | |
 | 1830 - 472 oldal
...errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves...that his grey hairs should secure him from insult. Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he advanced in age has receded from virtue, and becomes... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 oldal
...errors, continues still to blunder, and in whom age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults. Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced... | |
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... to prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt,... 
