 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...distract, or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong ", than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have a mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite : The self-same thing... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1828 - 592 pages
...against Lord Byron, who called it a ' solitary vice,' and condemned its advocate and apologist, Ixaak Walton, as ' a quaint old cruel coxcomb,' who ' in...no mind to.' And we can easily conceive that scarce any thing could have been less suited to Byron's eager and active temper, and restless and rapid imagination,... | |
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Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. 
