 | Regina Hewitt, Pat Rogers - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...for a pattern to their pupils," and added sarcastically: "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" (XV, 85—86). The unconstrained composure with which Junius aimed his satire at those in power and... | |
 | Van Buren Denslow - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 408 pages
...of Sir Robert Walpole's system except his abilities. * * * Yet foi 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. JUNlUt)' LETTER iAJUX. The morality of a king is not to be measured by vulgar rules There are faults... | |
 | English poetry - 1812 - 1092 pages
...could wish that your retreat rr/ight be deferred, «mil your morals shall be happily ripened to (hat 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... | |
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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. 
