| 1825 - 620 頁
...they themselves find neither pleasure nor profit, and that it is part of our common nature to Compound for sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to. It cannot then be denied, that this is a legitimate object of legislation, fully justifying the legal... | |
| 1832 - 792 頁
...! what art thou but a name ?'' So true it is, through all the gradations of life, that we Compound for sins we are inclined to By damning those we have no mind to. The shadows of the evening were descending as I reached St. Giles's church. St. Giles's ! What a name... | |
| Charles James Lever - 1845 - 272 頁
...been my object in the present little volume. To endeavour not only to show that we often " Compound for sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to ; " but also, that our laws and institutions — our manners and customs— are based less upon principles... | |
| Emma Roberts - 1845 - 450 頁
...lines of Hudibras more strongly exemplified than in India, since most certainly there, we Compound for sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to. VIEWS NEAR THE SOURCE OF THE JUMNA. THE glen of the Jumna, a deep and winding valley, sunk amid a most... | |
| 1850 - 590 頁
...partial in the scriptures. We must not reject one principle while we embrace another ; nor " Compound for sins we are inclined to. By damning those we have no mind to." We must remember that as the perfection of motion obtains among the heavenly bodies by the joint operation... | |
| 1856 - 504 頁
...Mister." We do not remember ever to have witnessed a more striking example of how readily we " Compound for sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to," than in the virtuous indignation manifested by the citizens of the Northern states at the desire evinced... | |
| George Macilwain - 1853 - 464 頁
...property ; and, finally, moral accounts are settled very much to our own satisfaction, as Butler says, by compounding " For sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to." After all, society keeps a pretty good look-out after faults of general commission. The law is tolerably... | |
| Frances Milton Trollope - 1853 - 366 頁
...against their unnatural father. It has been said, truly enough, that we are all disposed to ' Atone for sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to;' and it was probably for this reason that the enormous proportion of selfishness which the present plans... | |
| Cecilia Mary Caddell - 1858 - 366 頁
...Humph ! I must consider first," said Evelyn with a wicked smile. " There is such a thing, you know, as compounding — ' For sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to.' * " What do you mean ?" Frank rather testily enquired. " I mean, that, though you neither drink nor... | |
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