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...so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavour to avoid cen- sure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues. And though these two c... ...us to close the first line, the thought would be rather more proper. Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults, of our pit... ...haps it may be objected to me, that I have against my own rules introduced vices, and of a very black kind, into this work. To which I shall answer: f... ...ue a series of human actions, and keep clear from them. Secondly, that the vices to be found here are rather the accidental consequences of some human...

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...resent himself to the court of France, to which the count offered his ser- vices, complaining of his treatment by Antonio di Leyva and Ferdinando di G... ...o not seek good rule men through their evil instincts. Now, the queen made vices out of certain of your noblest qualities, and she taught you to belie...

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...he may be so fitted That his soul sicken not. ANGELO: Ha! fie, these filthy vices! It were as good To pardon him that hath from nature stolen A man a...

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...urch both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two ser- vices we did not dine; but he read in the Greek New Testament, and I turned... ...and the graces? A man, indeed, is not genteel when he gets drunk; but most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may de- bauch his friend’s wif... ...eans strictly suitable. Johnson. ‘Steele, I believe, practised the lighter vices.’ Mr. Warton, being engaged, could not sup with us at our inn; we had... ...‘Goldsmith (he said,) referred every thing to vanity; his virtues, and his vices too, were from that motive. He was not a social man. He never exchang... ... there is no doubt as to peculiarities: the ques- tion is, whether a man’s vices should be men- tioned; for instance, whether it should be men- tioned... .... Johnson maintained, that ‘If a man is to write A Panegyrick, he may keep vices out of sight; but if he professes to write A Life, he must represent ... ... of it: farmers cheat and are not ashamed of it: they have all the sensual vices too of the nobility, with cheating into the bar- gain. There is as mu... ...orse, her parents will give her to him. Women have a perpetual envy of our vices; they are less vicious than we, not from choice, but because we restr...

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...yov, sir, formerly a captain in the Russian infantry, put to shame for his vices, but still a cap- tain. Though I might not be one now for the way I t...

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...bands of musicians. One brother had come back a broken man, who had learnt vices and ruined himself, though he talked largely of his wonder- ful succe...

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...effect on those who hear them; for everybody will begin to excuse his own vices when he is convinced that similar wickednesses are always being perp...

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...od and glass at the end of a long low work- shop, filled with benches, and vices, and tools, and straps, and wheels; which, when they were in gear wit... ...s one of the most common, of those follies which often deserve the name of vices.’ ‘Pancks?’ said Doyce, tilting up his hat at the back, and nodding w...

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...ly very unreasonable for the government to go about and say ‘practice all vices’ but please be careful about it. It is unethical and shows a complac...

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...ed or attempted. (19) Wholly repugnant to the general freedom are such de- vices as enthralling men’s minds with prejudices, forcing their judgment, o... ... own hearts;” and so on, through the rest of the chapter, he describes the vices of ignorance, and sets them forth as the punishment of ignorance. (98...

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...tive than this is needed if govern- ing democracies are not to inherit the vices of governing classes in the past. I do not wish to be thought to deny... ... of co-operation; it makes them regard with horror the somewhat unfamiliar vices 100 Proposed Roads to Freedom of the aliens, while our own vices are...

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... of human affairs toward the worse, consisting of all the follies, all the vices, all the negligences, indolences, and supinenesses of mankind, which ... ...the expres sion of their own personal or political partialities. The very vices of the present electoral system are a proof of this. The growth of br... ..., protected by the admixture from being exag gerated into the neighboring vices. But, to render this ad mixture possible, there must be peculiar con...

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...cle. He kept up an incessant fire against it, exposing the absurdities and vices of the law and the courts of justice, paid and unpaid, until he force... ...among more special things, it comprises the most elaborate exposure of the vices and defects of English law, as it then was, which is to be found in h...

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...hing of reformation, though they did not want being told that their crying vices might without breach of charity be said to have gone far in bringing ... ...over, were more wicked and more stupid, more bold and hard- ened, in their vices and immoralities than they were before; but I will not carry it so fa...

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...gentleman so ill that he could indulge in them no longer; and so his three vices were cured. Had he been ambitious, there is little doubt but that Mr....

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...f contemporary life; and to what petty size they dwarf the virtues and the vices that appeared gigantic in our youth. So that at the last, when such a... ...be quoted in the same breath with Andrew Fairservice, – though without his vices. He was a man whose very presence could impart a savour of quaint ant... ...guilt. To a dog of gentlemanly feeling theft and falsehood are disgraceful vices. The canine, like the human, gentleman demands in his misdemeanours M... ...With the more part, for all their scruple-mongering and moral thought, the vices that are born with them remain invincible through- out; and they live...

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...uite a facto tum. But, however serviceable I might be, I found that my ser vices became every day of less importance, as the other hands improv’d in...

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..., here at last was enough drinking for a lifetime. T ruly, of our pleasant vices, the gods make whips to scourge us. And secondly he was condemned to ...