 | George Campbell - English language - 1849 - 472 pages
...or engage in it with innocence. And I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes to rid the world of each Other by a method...their own, where the law hath not been able to find an expedient."f For a specimen of the humorous, take, as a contrast to the last two examples, the following... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...or engage in it with innocence. And I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own, where the law has not been able to find an expedient As the common forms of good manners were intended for regulating... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - Women and literature - 1857 - 432 pages
...or engage in it with innocence. And I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own, where the law has not been able to find an expedient. As the common forms of good manners were intended for regulating... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1859 - 460 pages
...or engage in it with innocence. And I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes to rid the world of each other by a method...their own, where the law hath not been able to find an expedient."f For a specimen of the humorous, take, as a contrast to the last two examples, the following... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pages
...or engage in it with innocence. And I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own, where the law has not been able to find an expedient. As the common forms of good manners were intended for regulating... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1860 - 458 pages
...or engage in it with innocence. And I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes to rid the world of each other by a method...their own, where the law hath not been able to find an expedient."f For a specimen of the humorous, take, as a contrast to the last two examples, the following... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1865 - 678 pages
...legislature undertake. For he protests he can see no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own, where the law has not been able to find an expedient.* That Philip of .Macedonia over whom Paulus ^Emilius triumphed,... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1866 - 932 pages
...or engage in it with innocence. And I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes to rid the world of each other by a method...able to find an expedient. " As the common forms of good manners were intended for regulating the conduct of those who have weak understandings, so they... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...or engage in it with innocence. And I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, n probably only be reached by going there, and so to Magdala, it is nearly as imp has not been able to find an expedient. As the common forms of good manners were intended for regulating... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own, where the law has not been able to find an expedient. As the common forms of good manners were intended for regulating the conduct of those who have weak understandings ; so they... | |
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I should be exceedingly sorry to find the Legislature make any new laws against the practice of duelling ; because the methods are easy and many, for a wise man to avoid a quarrel with honour, or engage in it with innocence. And I can discover no political... 
