 ... have subsided. The wretch who, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his...  Time's Telescope - Page 601830Full view - About this book
 | H. R. Duff - Scotland - 1815 - 572 pages
...imputed to any man as a reproach ; but the wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insult... | |
 | H. R. Duff - Scotland - 1815 - 574 pages
...imputed to any man as a reproach ; but the wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is Surely the objedt of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...as a reproach; but I will affirm that the wretch, who, after having seen the consequence of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his gray hairs should secure him from insult. Much more is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...passed without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions are subsided. The wretch who, having seen the consequences of a thousand errors,...age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely an object of contempt or abhorrence, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insult.... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when the passions have subsided. The wretch...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult.... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...opportunities which it brings have past away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when fhe passions have subsided. The wretch who, after having...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey hairs should secure him from insult.... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...contemptible, if the opportunities which it brings have passed away without improvement, and vice appear to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch,...a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, and in whom age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object either of abhorrence or contempt,... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Readers - 1820 - 226 pages
...passed away without improvement, and vice appears to prevail, when the passions have subsided. 3. 1 he wretch, who after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors, continues still to blunder, a-.J whose age has only added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or... | |
 | Joseph Clinton Robertson - 1822 - 206 pages
...without improvement, and vice appears to prevail when the passions have subsided. The wretch that, after having seen the consequences of a thousand errors,...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from rebukes.... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1822 - 494 pages
...as a reproach ; but he affirmed, that the wretch who, after having seen the consequences of repeated errors, continues still to blunder, and whose age...added obstinacy to stupidity, is surely the object of either abhorrence or contempt, and deserves not that his grey head should secure him from insults... | |
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