 ... or two extraordinary of gin. But this false notion of courage, however noble it may appear to the desperate and abandoned, in reality amounts to no more than the resolution of the highwayman, who shoots himself with his own pistol, when he finds it...  Select British Classics - Strona 781803Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1774 - Liczba stron: 296
...avoid being; being taken. All practicable means, therefore, fhould be devifed to extirpate fuch abfurd bravery, and to make it appear every way horrible,...odious, contemptible, and ridiculous. Every man in his fober ferifes muft with, that the moft fevcre laws that could poffibly be contrived were enabled againft... | |
 | 1786 - Liczba stron: 782
...avoid being taken. All practicable means, therefore, flroiild be de« vifed to extirpate fuch abinrd bravery, and to make it appear every way horrible, odious, contemptible, and culous. Every man in his fober fenfei muft wilh, that the moft fevere laws that could poffibly be contrived... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - Liczba stron: 516
...impoffible to avoid being taken. All praticable means, therefore, ihould be devifed to extirpate fuch abfurd bravery, and to make it appear every way horrible, odious, contemptible, and ridiculous. From reading the public prints, a foreigner might be naturally led to imagine, that we are the moll... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - Liczba stron: 1168
...even the cobler of any spirit goes off by ariose or two extraordinary of gin. Bat this false notion of courage, however noble it may appear to the desperate...no more than the resolution of the highwayman, who thootr himself with his own pistol, when he finds it impossible to avoid being taken. All practicable... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - Liczba stron: 270
...any spirit goes off by a dose or ttyo extraordinary of gin. But this false notion of courage, hwwever noble it may appear to the desperate and abandoned,...appear, every way horrible, odious, contemptible, and ridicu1 ous. From reading the public prints a foreignermight be naturally led to imagine, that we are... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - Liczba stron: 270
...even the cobler of any spirit goes off by a dose or two extraordinary of gin. But this false notion of courage, however noble it may appear to the desperate...should be devised to extirpate such absurd bravery j and to make it appear; every way horrible, odious, contemptible, and ridiculous. From reading the... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - Liczba stron: 310
...even the cobler of any spirit goes off by a dose or two extraordinary of gin. But this false notion of courage, however noble it may appear to the desperate...highwayman, who shoots himself with his own pistol, when be finds it impossible to avoid being taken. All practicable means, therefore, should be devised to... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - Liczba stron: 530
...•eferrtbe'ccbbler oFany spirirgoes off by a dose or two~E3ErraoTdtttaTy~Of~gfiTr But this false notion of courage, however noble it may appear to the desperate...way horrible, odious, contemptible, and ridiculous. From reading the pub^ lie prints a foreigner might be naturally led to imagine, that we are the most... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - Liczba stron: 422
...the cobbler of any spirit goes oft by a dose or two extraordinary of gin. But this false notion of courage, however noble it may appear to the desperate...way horrible, odious, contemptible, and ridiculous. From reading the public prints a foreigner might be naturally led to 'imagine, that we ire the most... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - Liczba stron: 854
...the cobbler of any spirit goes off by a dose or two extraordinary of gin. But this false notion of courage, however noble it may appear to the desperate...way horrible, odious, contemptible, and ridiculous. From reading the public prints, a foreigner might be naturally led to imagine that we are the most... | |
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