 | 1810 - 578 pages
...will too often flatter thenpselv,es, .that the same power which enables them to commit the .crkne, will secure them from reproach. The dread of posthumous...therefore, being the only restraint, their consciences executed, .upon the passions of such persons, it is lamentable that this last defence (feeble enough... | |
 | 1808 - 556 pages
...situations «f unlimited authority ; they will too often flatter themselves, that the same power whicfc enables them to commit the crime, will secure them from reproach. The dread of posthupious infamy, therefore, being the only restni'.ut, their consciences excepted, upon the passions... | |
 | 1808 - 416 pages
...censure from contemporaries will seldom have much effect upon men in situations of unlimited authority ; they will too often flatter themselves, that the same...the passions of such persons, it is lamentable that tuis last defence, (feeble enough at best,) should in any degree be impaired; and impaired it must... | |
 | 1808 - 602 pages
...censure from coritempbfaries will seldom have much effect upon men in situations of unlimited authority ; they will too often flatter themselves that the same power •which enables them to commit the harm, will secure them from reproach. The dread of posthumous infamy therefore being the only restraint,... | |
 | Arthur Aikin - 1809 - 832 pages
...censure from contemporaries will seldom have much effect upon men in situations of unlimited authority ; they will too often flatter themselves, that the same...dread of posthumous infamy, therefore, being the only r strain!, their consciences excepted, upon the passions of euch persons, it is 1 imentable t'.iat... | |
 | English literature - 1810 - 576 pages
...censure from contemporaries will seldom have much effect upon men in situations of unlimited authority; they will too often flatter themselves, that the same...which enables them to commit the crime will secure llicm from reproach. The dread of posthumous infamy, therefore, being the otily restraint, their consciences... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...censure from contemporaries will seldom have much effect upon men in situations of unlimited authority : they will too often flatter themselves, that the same...reproach. The dread of posthumous infamy, therefore, heing the only restraint, their consciences excepted, upon the passions of such persons, it is lamentable... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 540 pages
...censure from contemporaries will seldom have much effect upon men in situations of unlimited authority. They will too often flatter themselves, that the same...therefore, being the only restraint, their consciences exaepted, upon the passions of such persons, it is lamentable that this last defence (feeble enough... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review (1802) - 1846 - 794 pages
...from contemporaries will seldom have much effect pp»n men in situations of unlimited authoriiy. Ihey will too often flatter themselves, that the same power...commit the crime, will secure them from reproach. Tho dread ot posthumous infamy, therefore, being the only fejtraint, their consciences excepted, upon... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1854 - 788 pages
...men in situations of unlimited authority. '1 hey will too often flatter themselves, that the •ame power which enables them to commit the crime, will...only restraint, their consciences excepted, upon the paslions of such persons, it is lamentable that this last defence (feeble enough at best), should in... | |
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... respect to its motives, than the other, so is it in its consequences, still more pernicious to the general interests of mankind. Fear of censure from contemporaries will seldom have much effect upon men in situations of unlimited authority : they... 
