 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...calamitous ; yet not without redeeming points, to which justice will not be done in the present age, or by those who— ' Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.' There are too many who speak as if priestcraft were the only sin in the world — or, at least, the... | |
 | Scotland - 1867 - 816 pages
...inhale, and only hate the " poison " which they can imbibe — thus, like other sinners, compounding for " Sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." Under the auspices of Mr Neal Dow (claiming to be the original author or promoter of the Maine Liquor... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 378 pages
...sequela of exceptions. It is the besetting temptation of many natures, and honest natures too, to " Compound for sins they are inclined to. By damning those they have no mind to." And perhaps few sins are more " damned" upon this principle than those of the bottle. You might as well... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 380 pages
...seqwla of exceptions. It is the besetting temptation of many natures, and honest natures too, to " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." - ' - ' -;.;. .'. '-. '.:..' -::/. 7- '-"-.! ^ i And perhaps few sins are more " damned" upon this... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...indifferent to us, but that which is seductive; or, asHudibras more felicitously expresses, — ' Men compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.' Money had no charms for Robespierre, nor wine, nor women,— why not, then, extol his chastity and... | |
 | 1906 - 420 pages
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 | English literature - 1844 - 640 pages
...difficult not to remember that men have been known to fancy that they might atone, — — for faults they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. Yet it is scarcely fair perhaps to say this, after reading the passage in which he reproaches himself,... | |
 | 1822 - 472 pages
...with too much indulgence in the world. Thus they too, like our modern play-wrights, only make mankind Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. With them, too, prodigality, debauchery and fornication, are not merely venial but reputable offences... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...dog distract or monkey sick; That with more care kept holiday The wrong, than others the right way ; he throne: alike in place, Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite: The self-same thing they will... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1824 - 780 pages
...rich, in putting down the sports of the poor, preserved their own : or that they " Compound for sports they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." They would do well to take care, that in legislating for the abolition of cruelty, they did not introduce... | |
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Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. 
