 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
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1849 - 604 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... | |
 | J. M - 1869 - 232 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, if 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.... | |
 | Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - Poets, English - 1869 - 676 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.... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1870 - 162 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. Thus it happened to Lord Cadurcis ; he was the periodical victim, the scape-goat of English morality,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...established in England with the Parisian laxity. At lengih our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-brokeu. And our virtue goes quietly to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1874 - 328 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 [essays]) - 1874 - 264 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...established in England with the Parisian laxity. At length pur anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heartbroken. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1875 - 716 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 literature - 1875 - 876 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it ia supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...established in England with the Parisian laxity. At length onr anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-broken. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own seventy, and compare with great pride the high standard of...length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heait-broken. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. Jt is clear that those vices... | |
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