 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pagina’s
...shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 558 pagina’s
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. " In passing judgment upou the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 552 pagina’s
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. " In passing judgment upou the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...-most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pagina’s
...language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross, because they are familiar. " In passing judgment upou the characters of men, we ought to try them by the...most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1816 - 298 pagina’s
...than in a living language, whofe idioms and phrafes feem grofs, becaufe they are familiar. In paffing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try...the principles and maxims of their own age, not by thofe of another. For although virtue and vice are at all times the fame, manners and cuftoms vary... | |
 | William Robertson - 1817 - 482 pagina’s
...men, we ought to try them by the principles . VI ^ . and maxims of their own age, not by those of ins. another. For, although virtue and vice are at all...most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities, which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing... | |
 | William Robertson, Alexander Stewart - 1820 - 482 pagina’s
...to try them by the principles and ^-..-^_, maxims of their own age, not by those of another. 14*6. For although virtue and vice are at all times the...most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing... | |
 | William Robertson, Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 610 pagina’s
...shocking than in a living language, whose idioms and phrases seem gross because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...most culpable, gave no disgust to his contemporaries. It was even by some of those qualities, which we are now apt to blame, that he was fitted for accomplishing... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1821 - 376 pagina’s
...sometimes admitted, though they are joined by a copulative or disjunctive conjunction : as, '• In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them hy the principles and maxims of their ewn age, and not by those of another. For, although virtue and... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pagina’s
...•booking than in a living language, whose idioms and jihra«es teem gross, because they are familiar. In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought...try them by the principles and maxims of their own agi, not by those of another. For although virtue and vice we at all times the same, manners and customs... | |
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In passing judgment upon the characters of men, we ought to try them by the principles and maxims of their own age, not by those of another. For, although virtue and vice are at all times the same, manners and customs vary continually. 
