 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...  Venetia - Page 104by Benjamin Disraeli - 1858Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 738 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1831 - 470 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...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.... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...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.... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...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.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...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.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...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... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very erroneous than their political opinions, they possessed, in a far greater degree than their adversari iu England, with the Parisian, laxity. At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-broken.... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very f attention. They were brought about 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... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very ngh or look aside from him without loss. He commanded...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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