 | 1797 - 490 pages
...the allowances to neceiiities ought not to grow into a pradlice. Thofe portents and prodigies oeght not to grow too common. If you have here and there...fallen into an error, which is not that of the dull or carelefs, you have an author who is hiinfelt guilty, in his own tongue, of the iame fault, in a very... | |
 | 1797 - 496 pages
...It yoa have here and there (much more rarely, however, than others ol great and not unmerited tame), fallen into an error, which is not that of the dull or carelels, you have an author who it himielt guilty, in his own tongue, ot the fame fault, in a very... | |
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...which make " Ambition virtue:" but the allowances to necessities ought not to grow into a practice. Those portents and prodigies ought not to grow too...his own tongue, of the same fault, in a very high degree. No author thinks more deeply, or paints more strongly ; but he seldom or ever expresses himself... | |
 | William Robertson - 1806 - 444 pages
...' ambition virtue.' But the " allowances to neceffities ought not to grow into a prac" tice. Thofe portents and prodigies ought not to grow " too common....rarely;, however, than others of great and not unmerited V fame,) fallen into an error, which is not that of the dull " or carelefs, you have an Author who... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...which make ' ambition virtue.' But " the allowances to necessities ought not to grow into a practice. " Those portents and prodigies ought not to grow too...his own tongue, of the same fault, in a very " high degree. No author thinks more deeply, or paints more " strongly ; but he seldom or ever expresses himself... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 452 pages
...something ought to be conceded to " the necessities which make ' ambition virtue.' But the ** allowances to necessities ought not to grow into a prac" tice....his own tongue, of the same fault, in a very high " degree. No author thinks more deeply, or paints more " strongly; but he seldom or ever expresses... | |
 | William Robertson - 1822 - 506 pages
...make ' ambi" tion virtue. ' But the allowances to necessities ought not to grow into " a practice. Those portents and prodigies ought not to grow too..." of great and not unmerited fame) fallen into an er i or, which is not that •' of the dull or careless, you have an author who is himself guilty,... | |
 | Sir James Prior - 1824 - 618 pages
...which make " ambition virtue;" but the allowances to necessities ought not to grow into a practice. Those portents and prodigies ought not to grow too...in his own tongue of the same fault in a very high degree. No author thinks more deeply, or paints more strongly, but he seldom or never expresses himself... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 pages
...which make " ambition virtue :" but the allowances to necessities ought not to grow into a practice. Those portents and prodigies ought not to grow too...his own tongue, of the same fault, in a very high degree. No author thinks more deeply, or paints more strongly; but he seldom or ever expresses himself... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...which make " ambition virtue :" but the allowances to necessities ought not to grow into a practice. Those portents and prodigies ought not to grow too...his own tongue, of the same fault, in a very high degree. No author thinks more deeply, or paints more strongly ; but he seldom or ever expresses himself... | |
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But the allowances to necessities ought not to grow into a practice. Those portents and prodigies ought not to grow too common. If you have, here and there, (much more rarely, however, than others of great and not unmerited fame,) fallen into an error,... 
