 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1749 - 262 strani
...much aggravation. Nay more, by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a fufficient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray...habits unworthy of princes and unworthy of men. The confutations of governments, and the different tempers and characters of feople> may be thought juftly... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1749 - 264 strani
...the different tempers and characters of feopk, may be thought juftly to deferve fome confideration, in determining the behaviour of princes in private life as well as in public ; and to put a difference, for inftance, between the decorum of a king of France, and that of... | |
 | Richard Rolt - 1767 - 554 strani
...greater aggravation. Nay more, by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a fufficient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray...habits, unworthy of princes, and unworthy of men. , Even the reputation of the firfl Scipio Africanus was not fo clear and uncontrouled in private as... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1768 - 354 strani
...much aggravation. Nay more, by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a furficient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray...habits unworthy of princes and unworthy of men. The conftitutions of governments, and the different tempers and characters of people, may be thought juftly... | |
 | Henry Saint-John Bolingbroke - 1775 - 326 strani
...much aggravation. Nay more, by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a fufficient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray...habits unworthy of princes and unworthy of men. The conjlitutions of governments, and the different tempers and characters of people, may be thought juftly... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1775 - 296 strani
...into vices, and their vices into habits unworthy of princes and unworthy of men. The conftitutions of governments, and the different tempers and characters of people, may be thought jufrly to deferve fome confederation, in determining the behaviour of princes in private life as well... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 strani
...ne" glefting this decency and this grace, and •" for want of a fufficient regard to appearcc anccs, even their virtues may betray them " into failings,...habits unworthy of princes, " and unworthy of men." (Idea of a Patriot King.) I MUST obferve, however, that this fort of full and oratorial climax, cau... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 504 strani
...much aggravation. Nay more • by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a sufficient regard to appearances^ even their virtues may betray...of men. The constitutions of governments, and the difi ferent tempers and characters of people, may be thought justly to deserve some consideration,... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 strani
...much aggravation. Nay more; by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a sufficient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray...habits unworthy of princes, and unworthy of men." The finest instance of climax extant is, however, that of St. Paul, 2 Cor. xi. 22, &c. "Are they Hebrews?... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 strani
...much aggravation. Nay more; by. peglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a sufficient regard to appearances, even. their virtues may betray...habits unworthy of princes and unworthy of men."* In the year 1741, the public was presented with a work which has been usually, and upon the whole,... | |
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... this grace, this propriety of manners to character, is so essential to princes in particular, that whenever it is neglected their virtues lose a great degree of lustre, and their defects acquire much aggravation. Nay more; by neglecting this decency... 
