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" Society; and to substitute in lieu of a sober contentment, and regular discharge of the duties incident to each man's particular situation, a wild desire of undefinable latitude and extravagance, — an aspiration after shapeless somethings, that can... "
The Ordeal - Page 289
1809
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The Anti-Jacobin, Or, Weekly Examiner, Volume 2

Europe - 1799 - 678 pages
...understood,—a contemptuous disgust at " all that «, and a persuasion that nothing is as it ought " to be;—to operate, in short, a general discharge of *' every...thing " that laws divine or human; that local customs, immeu morial habits, and multiplied examples impose upon 11 him; and to set them about doing what they...
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Poetry of The Anti-Jacobin [by G. Canning and others].

Anti-Jacobin The - 1801 - 276 pages
...each man's par" ticular situation, a wild desire of undefinable latitude and ex" travagance, — an aspiration after shapeless somethings, that can ««...of every man " (in his own estimation) from every tie which laws divine or " human, which local customs, immemorial habits, and multiplied " examples...
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The Anti-Jacobin, Or, Weekly Examiner, Volume 2

Europe - 1803 - 674 pages
...regular discharge of the duties, &c. a wild desire of uit*' definable latitude and extravagance, &c. a contemptuous '' disgust at all that is, and a persuasion that nothing it as •' it aught to ke—to operate a general discharge of EVERT " Man from every thing that Lotus...
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Poetry of The Anti-Jacobin [by G. Canning and others].

Anti-Jacobin The - 1807 - 258 pages
...— an aspiration after shapeless " somethings, that can neither be described nor un" derstood, — a contemptuous disgust at all that is, and " a persuasion...of every man " (in his own estimation) from every tie which laws " divine or human, which local customs, immemorial " habits, and multiplied examples...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 8

1828 - 454 pages
...incident to each man's particular situation, a wild desire of undefinable latitude and extravagance, an aspiration after shapeless somethings, that can neither...nor understood, a contemptuous disgust at all that . . and a persuasion that nothing is as it ought to be ; — to operate, in short, a general discharge...
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The North American Review, Volume 164

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1897 - 812 pages
...Rovers is Dr. Ibsen's ; it is to inculcate " a wild desire of indefinable latitude and extravagance ... a contemptuous disgust at all that is, and a persuasion that nothing is as it ought to be." Says Mr. Higgins, " I hold every government as an evil in itself," to be abated by force, if practicable,...
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Poetry of The Anti-Jacobin [by G. Canning and others].

Anti-Jacobin The - 1852 - 272 pages
...extravagance,—an aspiration after shapeless somethings that can neither be described nor understood,—a contemptuous disgust at all that is, and a persuasion that nothing is as it ought to be;—to operate, in short, a general discharge of every man (in his own estimation) from every tie...
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Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: Comprising the Celebrated Political & Satirical ...

George Canning, John Hookham Frere, George Ellis, Charles Carrington, William Gifford - English poetry - 1854 - 288 pages
...to each man's particular situation, a wild desire of undefinable latitude and extravagance, — an aspiration after shapeless somethings that can neither...discharge of every man (in his own estimation) from every tie which laws, divine or human, which local customs, immemorial habits, and multiplied examples, impose...
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Poetry of The Anti-Jacobin [by G. Canning and others].

Anti-Jacobin The - 1854 - 296 pages
...to each man's particular situation, a wild desire of undefinable latitude and extravagance, — an aspiration after shapeless somethings that can neither...discharge of every man (in his own estimation) from every tie which laws, divine or human, which local customs, immemorial habits, and multiplied examples, impose...
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The North British Review, Volume 29

1858 - 596 pages
...incident to each man's particular situation, a wild desire of undefinable latitude and extravagance,—an aspiration after shapeless somethings that can neither...understood, a contemptuous disgust at all that is." The purpose of this parody, according to the preface of its supposed author, Mr Higgins, is to represent...
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