| Alexander Maclaren - 1893 - 360 頁
...tongue ! " and it obeys to a very large extent. Inclination can silence conscience. We all " Compound for sins we are inclined to By damning those we have no mind to." The rush of passion can silence conscience. A whisper is not audible amidst the roar of Niagara. True,... | |
| James John Garth Wilkinson - 1894 - 346 頁
...insight to accompany the accusing conscience from onemisbehaviour to another. Perhaps we— " Compound for sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to." We do not, as Sir T. Brown says, " dive into our inclinations " with a purpose to overhaul and imprison... | |
| Michael Davitt - 1898 - 550 頁
...rigorous application of a law against those of his games that are harmless, except on the principle of " Compounding for sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to." Young was almost guilty at one time of spoiling the future ministerial career of a statesman marked... | |
| Benjamin Gregory - 1898 - 616 頁
...that which we have ourselves espoused as the right side. Butler's lines are often quoted : " Atone for sins we are inclined to By damning those we have no mind to." Might one venture to " cap " that couplet thus : "Vent holy wrath on crimes we curse, By perpetrating... | |
| Mrs. Frank Pope Humphrey - 1898 - 264 頁
...nothing by experience of their fascinations, and it is so easy, with Hudibras' Puritans, to " Compound for sins we are inclined to, By damning those we have no mind to." Not that Phoebe did this; she was a good woman — she meant to be good. And she did not care for amusements.... | |
| 1899 - 880 頁
...things ive do, which if done by others would cause us to lose all respect for them. We — * Compound for sins [we] are inclined to By damning those [we] have no mind to." In the fierce struggle of life, when men seek that which they desire with the rapacity of wild beasts,... | |
| Charles James Lever - 1899 - 484 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... | |
| Charles Lever - 1899 - 484 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... | |
| Keighley Snowden - 1901 - 392 頁
...languishes, invested with romance. Whence this interesting difference ? Are we agreed to — Compound for sins we are inclined to By damning those we have no mind to ? It may be so. You have also to reflect that there is no profession of sexual religion ; nor can there... | |
| Friends General Conference (U.S.). General Conference - 1904 - 492 頁
...either side to allow those interested to claim that it is necessary. It is a common failing to "Compound for sins we are inclined to By damning those we have no mind to." The reasoning which is supposed to justify the appeal to arms is that which shows some moral principle... | |
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