 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...from her. Sidney. , * Smooth slicing without itcp. Milton. He that once sins, like him that j/;V« on ice, Goes swiftly down the slippery ways of vice : Though conscience checks him, yet, those rubs He slid:; on smoothlv, and looks back no more. Drydsn. 3. To pass inadvertently. Make a door and a... | |
 | Forbes M. Moir - 1820 - 238 pages
...and friends. Tf ••' ;n.•.. , ."..«, • •: .. :• .•ESSAY VII. . - .. .I DISSIPATION. ' . He that once sins, like him that slides on ice, Goes swiftly d6wn the slippery ways of vice ; Tho' conscience checks, yet these rubs once gone o'er, He slides on... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 316 pages
...death: For how can hope with desperate guilt agree? And the worst beast is worthier life than he. XXI. He that once sins, like him that slides on ice, Goes...o'er, He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more. What sinners finish where they first begin; And with one crinie Content their lust to sin ? Nature,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1826 - 438 pages
...He that once sins, like him that slides -on ice, Runs swiftly down the slippery pnlh of vice ; Tho' conscience checks him, yet those rubs gone o'er, He slides on smoothly, and looks back no ' more." Mr. Fleming has long ceased to look back; and it is our duty to prevent him looking forward to other... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...When his fellow beasts are weary grown. He'll play the groom, give oats, and rub 'em down. Dryden. He that once sins, like him that slides on ice, Goes...of vice; Though conscience checks him, yet, those rubí gone o'er. He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more. Id. Servants blow the fire with puffing... | |
 | Alban Butler - Fathers of the church - 1845 - 554 pages
...secret envy appears light at first, but nothing is so rapid or so violent as the progress of vice. " He that once sins, like him that slides on ice, Goes...gone o'er, He slides on smoothly, and looks back no ruore."(l) The conversion of St. Austin happened in the year 386, the thirty-second of his age, in... | |
 | Child rearing - 1846 - 332 pages
...fragrant beauty on our own. 96 Literary Notices. THE SLIPPERY WAYS OF VICE. He who once sin?, like him who slides on ice, Goes swiftly down the slippery ways of vice ; Though conscience check him, yet, these rubs gone o'er. He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more. What ! sinners... | |
 | Edward Farr - Macedonia - 1850 - 382 pages
...His downward career of vice affords a fine comment on Juvenal's description of a sinner's progress. " He that once sins, like him that slides on ice, Goes...slippery ways of vice ; Though conscience checks him, yet these rubs gone o'er, He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more. What sinners finish where they... | |
 | Theology - 1857 - 992 pages
...result of irreverent tampering with divine truth, suitably apply the solemn warning of the poet : — " He that once sins, like him that slides on ice Goes swiftly down the slipp'ry ways of vice, Though conscience checks him, yet those rubs gone o'er, He slides on smoothly,... | |
 | Alban Butler - Christian saints - 1857 - 1074 pages
...so rapid or so violent as the progress of vice. "He that once tins, like him that slides on ice, GOM swiftly down the slippery ways of vice : Though conscience...o'er, He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more."' The conversion of St. Austin happened in the year 386, the thirty-second of his age, in the month of... | |
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He that once sins, like him that slides on ice, Goes swiftly down the slippery ways of vice : Though conscience checks him, yet those rubs gone o'er, He slides on smoothly, and looks back no more. 
