| David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 582 pages
...King- of Great Britain. § I. DURING the infatuation produced by- this infamous scheme, luxury, vice, and profligacy, increased to a 'shocking degree of...pride, insolence, and the most ridiculous ostentation : they affected to scoff at religion and morality ; and even to set heaven at defiance. The earl of... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 590 pages
...King- of Great Britain. § I. DURING the infatuation produced by this infamous scheme, luxury, vice, and profligacy, increased to a shocking degree of...pride, insolence, and the most ridiculous ostentation : they affected to scoff at religion and morality ; and even to set heaven at defiance. The earl of... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1810 - 578 pages
...King of Great Britain. § I. DURIXG the infatuation produced by this infamous scheme, luxury, vice, and profligacy, increased to a shocking degree of...discourse was the language of pride, insolence, and tbe most ridiculous ostentation : they affected to scoff at religion and morality ; and even to set... | |
| Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Great Britain - 1821 - 304 pages
...great wickedness ] During the infatuation produced by the infamous South Sea bubble, luxury, vice, and profligacy increased to a shocking degree of extravagance....dainties, and the most expensive wines that could he imported ; they purchased the most sumptuous furniture, equipage, and apparel, though without taste... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1822 - 512 pages
...king of Great Britain. § I. DURING the infatuation produced by this infamous scheme, luxury, vice, and profligacy, increased to a shocking degree of...pride, insolence, and the most ridiculous ostentation : they affected to scoff at religion and morality, and even to set Heaven at defiance. The earl of... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 512 pages
...king of Great Britain. § I. DURING the infatuation produced by this infamous scheme, luxury, vice, and profligacy, increased to a shocking degree of...pride, insolence, and the most ridiculous ostentation : they affected to scoff at religion and morality, and even to set Heaven at defiance. The earl of... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1825 - 656 pages
...infamous scheme, luxury, vice, and profligacy, increased to a shocking degree of extravagance. Thu adventurers, intoxicated by their imaginary wealth,...pampered themselves with the rarest dainties, and the moat expensive wines that could be imported: they purchased the most sumptuous furniture, equipage,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Great Britain - 1827 - 536 pages
...scheme, luxury, vice, ~ and profligacy increased to a shocking degree of extravagance. The ad) venturers, intoxicated by their imaginary wealth, pampered themselves...pride, insolence, and the most ridiculous ostentation : they affected to scoff at religion and morality ; and even to set heaven at defiance. The earl of... | |
| George Buchanan - Scotland - 1829 - 742 pages
...delusion soon came to an end; while it lasted, according to the report of their own clergy,* luxury, vice, and profligacy increased to a shocking degree of extravagance....the most sumptuous furniture, equipage and apparel, without taste or discernment, indulged their criminal passions to the most criminal excess; their ostentation... | |
| George Buchanan - Scotland - 1829 - 764 pages
...delusion soon came to an end; while it lasted, according to the report of their own clergy,* luxury, vice, and profligacy increased to a shocking degree of extravagance....the most sumptuous furniture, equipage and apparel, without taste or discernment, indulged their criminal passions to the most criminal excess; their ostentation... | |
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