| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 596
...have been gradually stained, and tlte influence of such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues...ruling passion : and a politician will suspect, that he • I prefer this interpretation of the passage, " his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power,"... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 304
...have been gradually stained, and the Jtt/iuence of such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues...ruling passion : and a politician will suspect, that he • * I prefer this interpretation of the passage, " his power shall be mighty, b« not by his own... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - Počet stránok 592
...Mohammed and his successors (VoL II. p. 72, 73, 74} ; which renders his former mistake the more singular. secretly smiled (the .victorious impostor !) at the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes. — In the support of truth the arts of fraud and fiction may be deemed Jess criminal ;... | |
| Thom Scott - 1824 - Počet stránok 758
...been gradually stained ; ' and the influence of such pernicious habits, ' would be poorly compensated by the practice ' of the personal and social virtues,...enthusiasm of ' his youth, and the credulity of his followers. In / the support of truth, the arts of fraud and fiction f may be deemed less criminal ;... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - Počet stránok 406
...influence on such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal or social virtues which are necessary to maintain the...the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes. A philosopher will observe that their cruelty and his success would tend more strongly... | |
| New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - Počet stránok 404
...influence on such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal or social virtues which are necessary to maintain the...the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes. A philosopher will observe that their cruelty and his success would tend more strongly... | |
| Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - Počet stránok 410
...influence on such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal or social virtues which are necessary to maintain the...the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes. A philosopher will observe that their cruelty and Ai* success would tend more strongly... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1828 - Počet stránok 484
...have been gradually stained : and the influence of such pernicious HABITS would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues,...the enthusiasm of his youth and the credulity of his proselytes. In the support of truth, THE ARTS OF FRAUD AND FICTION may be deemed less criminal : and... | |
| Samuel Green - 1840 - Počet stránok 430
...have been gradually stained; and the influence of such pernicious habits, would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues...a prophet among his sectaries and friends. Of his late years,, ambition was his ruling passion, and a politician will suspect that he secretly smiled... | |
| Samuel Green (Baptist minister, Lion St. Chapel, Walworth.) - 1840 - Počet stránok 442
...have been gradually stained ; and the influence of such pernicious habits, would be pporly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues...a prophet among his sectaries and friends. Of his late years, ambition was his ruling passion, and a politician will suspect that he secretly smiled... | |
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