This tale will not be told in vain, if it shall be found to illustrate the great truth, that guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness; that the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and,... The Haileybury observer - Page 65by East India college - 1845Full view - About this book
| Walter Scott - English fiction - 1818 - 386 pages
...lived beloved, and died lamented. READER — This tale will not be told in vain, if it shall be found to illustrate the great truth, that guilt, though...murdered, for ever haunt the steps of the malefactor ; and that the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness... | |
| 1818 - 574 pages
...vain, if it shall be found to illustrate the great truth, that guilt, though it may attain teiu. poral splendour, can never confer real happiness ; that...murdered, for ever haunt the steps of the malefactor ; and that the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness... | |
| Walter Scott - English fiction - 1818 - 424 pages
...lived beloved, and died lamented. READER — This tale will not be told in vain, if it shall be found to illustrate the great truth, that guilt, though...consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, ind, like the ghosts of the murdered, for iver haunt the steps of the malefactor ; ind that the piths... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1818 - 392 pages
...lived beloved, and died lamented. READER — This tale will not be told in vain, if it shall be found to illustrate the great truth, that guilt, though...happiness ; that the evil consequences of our crimes longWsurvive their commission, Is and, like the ghosts of the murdered, for ever haunt the steps of... | |
| Walter Scott - 1836 - 676 pages
...lived beloved, and died lamented. READER — This tale will not be told in vain, if it shall be found to illustrate the great truth, that guilt, though...murdered, for ever haunt the steps of the malefactor ; and that the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness... | |
| 1838 - 544 pages
...hereafter. ALISON. GVILT, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. The evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the phosts of the murdered, for ever haunt the steps of the malefactor. The paths of virtue, though seldom... | |
| Periodicals - 1838 - 272 pages
...listen to it, to everything for which we were called into being, either Lere or hereafter. ALISON. GUILT, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. The evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered,... | |
| Periodicals - 1838 - 274 pages
...listen to it, to everything for which we were called into being, either here or hereafter. ALISON. GUILT, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness. The evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered,... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1839 - 264 pages
...the opposite arguments a much more fair statement than that which he affords it in tacit meditation. The evil consequences of our crimes long survive their...murdered, for ever haunt the steps of the malefactor. Guilt, though it may attain ten-fold splendour, can never confer real happiness. f Any religion, however... | |
| 536 pages
...reverence melt; Oh biest be those fair girls, and blest That home where God is felt. Mn. ¡If mans. Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness ; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, ami, like the ghosts of the murdered,... | |
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