 There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any villainy made perfectly detestable, because they never could be wholly divested of their excellencies; but such have been in all ages...  The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The rambler - Page 13by Samuel Johnson - 1792Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1752 - 326 pages
...villainy made perfectly 'detdftablei, becaufo they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies ; but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters...to be preferved, than the art of murdering without paifl. • .11 -i- 4 iI 05 SOME SOME have advanced, without due attention to the confequences of this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 302 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...could be wholly diverted of their.excellencies : but fuch have been, in all ages, the great corruptors of the world; and their refemblance ought no more...preferved, than the art of murdering without pain.; X. Y. Rambler, vol. i. p, iz, YOUTH. YOUTH is of no long duration ; and in . maturer age, when the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1784 - 340 pages
...villainy made . perfectly deteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly divefted of their excellencies; but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their refemblance ought no mo* to be preferred, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...villany made perfeclly dcteftable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies; but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters...pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confcquences of this notion, that certain virtues have their correfpondent faults, and therefore that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787
...RAMBLER. 25 wholly divefted of their excellencies; but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupccrs of the world, and their refemblan.ce ought no more...pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the confluences of this notion, that certain virtues have their correfpondent faults, and therefore that... | |
 | Charles Moore (rector of Cuxton.) - Dueling - 1790 - 482 pages
...villainy made perfeftly deleitable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies ; but fuch have been in all ages " the great corrupters...confequences of this notion, that certain virtues have their correfponding faults, and therefore that to exhibit either apart, is to deviate from probability. Thus... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...excellences : but fuch have been in all agss the great corrupters of the world ; and their refemblarae ought no more to be preferved, than the art of murdering without pain. /l*»ili-f- ' £M»~ ^ Some have advanced, without due'attention to the confequences of this notion,... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 450 pages
...Icarce any made perfectly deleitable, becaufe they never could be wholly diverted of their excellencies: but fuch have been in all ages the great corrupters...the world; and their refemblance ought no more to be preferred than the art of murdering without pain. " In narratives, where hiltorical veracity has no... | |
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