But, guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those, to whom nothing could give influence or weight, but their power of betraying. Hogg's Weekly Instructor - Página 621845Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 292 páginas
...suspect no tongue, is," says Johnson, "the great prerogative of innocence ; an exemption granted only to virtue. But guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes...to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying." It must be admitted however, on the other hand, that " comme a la fin tout... | |
| Frederick Charles Husenbeth - 1860 - 356 páginas
...Oscott, and in every stage of his life. He had a guileless heart, and an innocent and humble mind. If " to dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the...an exemption granted only to invariable virtue,"* he assuredly enjoyed that great prerogative. He was ever cheerful, and joined as heartily in the sports... | |
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 páginas
...The coloured slave that waits upon Thought. — A drop of ink may make a million think. — Byron. To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the great prerogative of innocence. — There is no courage but in innocence ; No constancy but in an honest cause. Instructum. Hast thou... | |
| William Lennie - 1863 - 188 páginas
...the needy, and comfort the afflicted,f are dnties that fall in our way almost every day of our lives. To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the great prerogative of innocence!0.f * When nothing bnt an infinitive precedes the verb, then it is the infiritivc that is... | |
| Alexander Reid - 1872 - 200 páginas
...give cheerfulness to those hours, which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. 2. To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the...innocence; an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. 3. Arbitrary power I look upon as a greater evil than anarchy itself, as much as a savage is in a happier... | |
| Maxims - 1876 - 340 páginas
...The -prosperous are feared, hated, and flattered ; and the unfortunate avoided, pitied, and despised. To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the...to whom nothing could give influence or weight, but their power of betraying. To know the world is necessary, since we were born for the help of one another;... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...from the other all the weeds they could spy. WHATELY : Annot. on Bacon's Essay, Of Truth. INNOCENCE. To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the...to whom nothing could give influence or weight, but their power of betraying. DR. S. JOHNSON : Rambler, No. 68. How many bitter thoughts does the innocent... | |
| James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - 124 páginas
...A plurality of subjects require a plural verb. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. To fear no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the great prerogative of innocence. All songsters save the hooting owl was mute. Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night. Doth... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...from the other all the weeds they could spy. WHATELY : Annot. on Bacon's Essay, Of Truth. INNOCENCE. To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the...exemption granted only to invariable virtue. But guilt ha< always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 páginas
...prerogative of innocence; an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. But guilt has always its horrours and solicitudes ; and, to make it yet more shameful...to whom nothing could give influence or weight, but their power of betraying. Saturday, November 24, 1750. _ " Omnis Aristippum decuit status, el color,... | |
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