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" We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of morals established in England, with the Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-broken. And our virtue goes quietly... "
The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Venetia. Tancred - Page 225
by Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1866
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 53

1831 - 738 pages
...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of...length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-hroken. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. It is clear that those vices...
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The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment, Volume 7

Great Britain - 1831 - 470 pages
...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness, ought to be as much as possible repressed....
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Selections from the Edinburgh Review: Comprising the Best Articles in that ...

Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness ought to be as much as possible repressed....
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. it is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness ought to be as much as possible repressed....
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happi' ness ought to be as much as possible repressed....
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of morals established in England, wiih the Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-broken. And...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 16

American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of...length, our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and broken-hearted. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more." Macaulay's style is of...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of morals established iu those qualities which are the grace of private It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness ought to be as much as possible repressed....
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 16

1849 - 588 pages
...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, ut neither by legislative regulation nor by physical force. Moral causes noiselessly broken-hearted. And our virtue goes quietly to sieep for seven years more." Macaulay's style is of...
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges...that heard him was lest he should make an end." From It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness ought to be as much as possible repressed....
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