 | Junius - Great Britain - 1827 - 226 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. JUNIUS. LETTER XVI. To the Printer of the PvJblic Advertiser. SIR, July 19, 1769. A GREAT deal of useless... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 pages
...Grafton, there is an allusion to a sentiment in Bacon's Jldvancement of Learning, of which Mr. Heron does not seem to have been aware. " Yet, for the benefit...so much corrupt public manners, as those that are •Their "merit" it were folly to deny. This is great, beyond dispute ; but certainly much of their... | |
 | Junius - 1850 - 504 pages
...succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred, until your morals shall be happily ripened to that maturity of corruption, at which the worst examples cease to be contagious." The change which is perpetually taking place in the matter of infection gives it progressively a point... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1850 - 578 pages
...his metaphors are rather too far.fetched or recondite. " Yet for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred, until your morals ahull be happily ripened to that maturity of corruption, at which the worst examples cease to be contagious."... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age. I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...be ripened to that maturity of corruption at which, philosophers tell us, the worst examples cease to be contagious. JUNITTS. * This attack on the moral... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...be ripened to that maturity of corruption at which, philosophers tell us, the worst examples cease to be contagions. JUNTOS. 3 This attack on the moral... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, hands of a company of merchants. I know much is,...more may be said against such a system ; but with my corrupticn at which, philosophers tell us, the worst examples cease to be contagious. Juwus. 9 This... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred,...at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. XLVIL WILLIAM SCOTT, LORD STOWELL. 1745—1836. WILLIAM SCOTT, Baron Stowell, the elder brother of... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...though happiest in fie. tion, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...morals shall happily be ripened to that maturity of corrupticn at which, philosophers tell us, the worst examples cease to be contagions. JUNTOS. 3 This... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet for the benefit of the succeeding age I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. JDNIUS. LETTER XXIII.i TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. September 19, 176У. Mr LORD, — You are... | |
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Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until your morals shall happily be ripened to that maturity of corruption at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. 
