 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1856 - 494 pages
...elevated, and the discursive jollity which he loved to promote. But beyond these ordinary attractions, he had a sincere respect for drinking, indeed a high...for the poor wretches who could not indulge in it; with due contempt of those who could, but did not. He groaned over the gradual disappearance of the... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1856 - 462 pages
...elevated, and the discursive jollity which he loved to promote. But beyond these ordinary attractions, he had a sincere respect for drinking, indeed a high...for the poor wretches who could not indulge in" it ; with due contempt of those who could, but did not. He groaned over the gradual disappearance of the... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1856 - 468 pages
...elevated, and the discursive jollity which he loved to promote. But beyond these ordinary attractions, he had a sincere respect for drinking, indeed a high...for the poor wretches who could not indulge in it ; with due contempt of those who could, but did not. He groaned over the gradual disappearance of the... | |
 | 1857 - 686 pages
...drinking a pleasure, but with Hermand it was a virtue. He expressed a sincere respect for it, a profound moral approbation, and a serious compassion for the poor wretches who could not indulge in it, with due contempt for those who could, but did not." His regards, in this respect, were shown once... | |
 | Richard Rowe - Australian poetry - 1858 - 240 pages
...permitted no fixed stars. ***** Common-place topers think drinking a pleasure, but with Hermand it was a virtue. * * * * * He had a sincere respect for...for the poor wretches who could not indulge in it ; with due contempt of those who could, but did not. * * # * * T^ cordiality inspired by claret and... | |
 | Edward Bannerman Ramsay - Fiction - 1859 - 240 pages
...have a degree of feebleness and imbecility of character. But as this is an important point, I will adduce the higher authority of Lord Cockburn, and...could but did not ;" and, secondly, I refer to Lord C.'s pages for an anecdote which illustrates the perverted feeling I refer to, now happily no longer... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - 1860 - 368 pages
...the severest scenes of old Scotch drinking than any man at last living." Moreover, " he had a serious respect for drinking — indeed, a high moral approbation,...and a serious compassion for the poor wretches who cou]fl not indulge in it, with due contempt of those who could, but did not." The cordiality inspired... | |
 | Hugh Miller - History - 1862 - 532 pages
...elevated, and the discursive jollity which he loved to promote. But beyond them ordinary attractions, he had a sincere respect for drinking ; indeed, a...for the poor wretches who could not indulge in it ; but due contempt of those who could but did not. He groaned over the gradual disappearance of the... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 390 pages
...steps to your front doo? 1 " With Lord Hermand drinking was a virtue : he had a sincere respect for it, indeed a high moral approbation, and a serious compassion...for the poor wretches who could not indulge in it, with due contempt of those who could but did not. No carouse ever injured his health, for he was never... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 516 pages
...elevated, and the discursive jollity which he loved to promote. But beyond these ordinary attractions, he had a sincere respect for drinking : indeed, a...for the poor wretches who could not indulge in it; but due contempt of those who could but did not. He groaned over the gradual disappearance of the Fineat... | |
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But beyond these ordinary attractions, he had a sincere respect for drinking, indeed a high moral approbation, and a serious compassion for the poor wretches who could not indulge in it; with due contempt of those who could, but did not. 
