| Great Britain. Parliament - 1844 - 818 pages
...support. He thanked him for his proposal, but the conduct of the Dean and Chapter reminded him of those, who " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." The Bishop of Gloucester always understood, that whenever it was the intention of any noble Lord to... | |
| 1856 - 1432 pages
...dog distract or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way; Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite, The self-same thing they will... | |
| 1856 - 604 pages
...distract or monkey sick j That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite, The self-same thing they will... | |
| John Henry Hobart - 1844 - 286 pages
...heart, are in nothing more apparent than in the disposition of men to make a commutation of vices. " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." repeated by rote, as the school-boy would con over his lesson. But the Christian is " meek and lowly... | |
| 1845 - 434 pages
...passions are daily cooling down, the virtues of abstinence become more attractive, and men are prone to " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." The changes now described come not upon men of one disposition of character only, but on all. The old... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...sterling wit and profound satire, where, speaking of certain religious hypocrites, he says, that they " Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to;" but the wit consists in the truth of the character, and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous contradiction... | |
| 1845 - 404 pages
...passions are daily cooling down, the virtues of abstinence become more attractive, and men are prone to " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." The changes now described come not upon men of one disposition of character only, but on all. The old... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pages
...sterling wit and profound satire, where, speaking of certain religious hypocrites, he says, that they " Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to;" but the wit consists in the truth of the character, and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous contradiction... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 876 pages
...of Dante's preachers, seems to have been one of those wlf-ignorant or •elf-exasperated denouncer*, who " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning...could not bear to see ladies too little clothed. The denemg of " God's image" in his own person he considered nothing. * The passage respecting bis past... | |
| 1846 - 524 pages
...monopolies, sound currency but high interest, and are always ready, whether in religion or politics, " To compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to." Offences against property they think much more serious than those against the person. Capital punishments... | |
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