 ... passions, a man had better be in a fair than in a wood alone. They may, like petty thieves, cheat us perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company, but like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us when they catch us alone. This is...  A Series of Genuine Letters Between Henry and Frances - Page 192by Richard Griffith, Elizabeth Griffith - 1767 - 298 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...us perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company; but, like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from men, and fall into the hands of devils. .Tis like the punishment of parricides among the Romans, to be sowed into a bag with an ape,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 424 pages
...perhaps, and pick our" pockets, in the midst of company ; but, like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us, when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from men, and fall into the hands of devils. It is like the punishment of parricides among the Romans, to be sewed into a bag, with an ape,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 268 pages
...us perhaps, and pick our pockets, in the midst of company ; but, like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us, when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from men, and fall into the hands of devils. It is like the punishment of parricides among the Romans, to be sowed into a bag, with an ape,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 246 pages
...us perhaps, and pick our pockets, in the midst of company ; but, like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us, when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from men, and fall into the hands of devils. It is like the punishment of parricides among the Romans, to be sowed into a bag, with an ape,... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...us perhaps, and pick our pockets, in the midst of company ; but, like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us, when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from men, and fall into the hands of devils. It is like the punishment of parricides among the Romans, to be sowed into a bag, with an ape,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...us perhaps, and pick our pockets, in the midst of company ; but, like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us, when they catch us alone. This is but to retreat from men, and to fall into the hands of devils. It is like the punishment of parricides among^ the Romans, to be... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 296 pages
...us perhaps, and pick our pockets, in the midst of company ; but, like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us, when they catch us alone. This is but to retreat from men, and to fall into the hands of devils. It is like the punishment of parricides among the Romans, to be sewed... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1826 - 298 pages
...us perhaps, and pick our pockets, in the midst of company ; but, like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us, when they catch us alone. This is but to retreat from men, and to fall into the hands of devils. It is like the punishment of parricides among the Romans, to be sewed... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - Country life - 1849 - 256 pages
...perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company; but, like robbers, they use to strip, and bind, and murder us, when they catch us alone. This is but to retreat from men, and fall into the hands of devils." And if sequesterment be necessary for our spiritual, it is equally needed by our intellectual... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 pages
...us, perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company ; but, like robbers, they use to strip, and bind, or murder us, when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from men, and fall into the hands of devils." But some sequesterment is needful for our intellectual, as for our spiritual nature. A bird... | |
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