 They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the rules of decorum as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult...  The Letters of Junius - Page 140by Junius - 1791 - 403 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 232 pages
...as with the laws of morality, they will not surfer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now they tell you that life is no more than a dramatic scene, in which the hero should preserve his consistency to the last ; and that, as you lived without... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...man of honor. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they ouce did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the...decorum as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 504 pages
...man of honour. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the...decorum as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now... | |
 | Arthur Waugh - 1897 - 364 pages
...man of honour. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the...decorum, as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now... | |
 | Charles William Colby - Great Britain - 1899 - 378 pages
...man of honour. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the...decorum, as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now... | |
 | Charles William Colby - Great Britain - 1899 - 398 pages
...man of honour. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the...decorum, as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 pages
...man of honor. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the...decorum as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now they... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1905 - 666 pages
...man of honor. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the...decorum as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit, by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now... | |
 | Junius - English letters - 1907 - 172 pages
...man of honour. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the...decorum, as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...man of honour. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the...decorum as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now... | |
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