 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1749 - 262 lehte
...much aggravation. Nay more, by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a fufficient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray...habits unworthy of princes and unworthy of men. The confutations of governments, and the different tempers and characters of feople> may be thought juftly... | |
 | Richard Rolt - 1767 - 554 lehte
...greater aggravation. Nay more, by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a fufficient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray...habits, unworthy of princes, and unworthy of men. , Even the reputation of the firfl Scipio Africanus was not fo clear and uncontrouled in private as... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1768 - 354 lehte
...much aggravation. Nay more, by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a furficient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray...habits unworthy of princes and unworthy of men. The conftitutions of governments, and the different tempers and characters of people, may be thought juftly... | |
 | Henry Saint-John Bolingbroke - 1775 - 326 lehte
...much aggravation. Nay more, by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a fufficient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray...habits unworthy of princes and unworthy of men. The conjlitutions of governments, and the different tempers and characters of people, may be thought juftly... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1775 - 296 lehte
...into vices, and their vices into habits unworthy of princes and unworthy of men. The conftitutions of governments, and the different tempers and characters of people, may be thought jufrly to deferve fome confederation, in determining the behaviour of princes in private life as well... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1787 - 482 lehte
...ne" glefting this decency and this grace, and •" for want of a fufficient regard to appearcc anccs, even their virtues may betray them " into failings,...habits unworthy of princes, " and unworthy of men." (Idea of a Patriot King.) I MUST obferve, however, that this fort of full and oratorial climax, cau... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 498 lehte
...mnch aggravation. Nay morej by neglecting this, decency and this grace, and for want of a suflicient regard to appearances, even their virtues may betray...behaviour of princes in private life as well as in publick ; and to put a difference, for instance, between the decorum of a king of France and that of... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 500 lehte
...defects acquire much aggravation. Nay more; by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a sufficient regard to appearances, even their virtues...the different tempers and characters of people,, may ba thought justly to deserve some consideration, in determining the behaviour of princes in private... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 504 lehte
...defecls acquire much aggravation. Nay more • by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a sufficient regard to appearances^ even their virtues...of men. The constitutions of governments, and the difi ferent tempers and characters of people, may be thought justly to deserve some consideration,... | |
 | George Gregory - 1809 - 384 lehte
...defects acquire much aggravation. Nay more; by neglecting this decency and this grace, and for want of a sufficient regard to appearances, even their virtues...habits unworthy of princes, and unworthy of men." The finest instance of climax extant is, however, that of St. Paul, 2 Cor. xi. 22, &c. "Are they Hebrews?... | |
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... this decency, this grace, this propriety of manners to character, is so essential to princes in particular, that whenever it is neglected their virtues lose a great degree of lustre, and their defects acquire much aggravation. Nay more; by neglecting... 
