 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...being united with so much merit. There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any...preserved than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the consequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Literary Collections - 1968 - 400 pages
...being united with so much merit. There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any...preserved, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the consequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 655 pages
...being united with so much merit. There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any...preserved than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the consequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
 | Judith Moore - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1994 - 292 pages
...moralism but to his fundamental assumptions about fiction's audience. Like the depiction of "men . . . splendidly wicked, whose endowments [throw] a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any villainy [makes] perfectly detestable" (23), these are the subjects of serious historical writing, of truthful... | |
 | Ronald Paulson, Thomas F. Lockwood - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 488 pages
...hinder our Pleasure, or, perhaps, regard them with some Kindness for being united with so much Merit. THERE have been Men indeed splendidly wicked, whose...preserved, than the Art of murdering without Pain. SOME have advanced, without due Attention to the Consequences of this Notion, that certain Virtues... | |
 | Emma Clery, Robert Miles - Fiction - 2000 - 322 pages
...being united with so much merit. There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any...preserved, than the art of murdering without pain. Some have advanced, without due attention to the consequences of this notion, that certain virtues... | |
 | Jennifer L. Geddes - Philosophy - 2001 - 132 pages
...direction from Pascal's "but": 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 could never be wholly divested of their excellences; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters... | |
 | Jennifer L. Geddes - Philosophy - 2001 - 132 pages
...direction from Pascal's “but”: 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 could never be wholly divested of their excellences; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 622 pages
...being united with so much merit. There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any...detestable, because they never could be wholly divested of 115 their excellencies; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their... | |
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There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whose endowments throw 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... 
