| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...gratified by stealth, broke forth with ungovernable violence as soon as the check was withdrawn. Men flew to frivolous amusements and to criminal pleasures with the greediness which long and enforced abstinence naturally produces. Little restraint was imposed by public opinion. For the nation,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...gratified by stealth, broke forth with ungovernable violence as soon as the check was withdrawn. Men flew to frivolous amusements and to criminal pleasures with the greediness which long and enforced abstinence naturally produces. Little restraint was imposed by public opinion. For the nation,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...gratified by stealth, broke forth with ungovernable violence as soon as the check was withdrawn. Men flew to frivolous amusements and to criminal pleasures with the greediness which long and enforced abstinence naturally produces. Little restraint was imposed by public opinion. For the nation,... | |
| Robert Cox - Freedom of religion - 1853 - 744 pages
...gratified by stealth, broke forth with ungovernable violence as soon as the check was withdrawn. Men flew to frivolous amusements and to criminal pleasures, with the greediness which long and enforced abstinence naturally produces. Little restraint was imposed by public opinion. For the nation,... | |
| William Logan Fisher - Sabbath - 1859 - 260 pages
...the Sabbatarians) broke forth with ungovernable violence as soon as the check was withdrawn. Men flew to frivolous amusements and to criminal pleasures, with the greediness which long and enforced abstinence naturally produces. Little restraint was imposed by public opinion. For the nation,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1866 - 668 pages
...gratified by stealth, broke forth with ungovernable violence as soon as the check was withdrawn. Men flew to frivolous amusements and to criminal pleasures with the greediness which long and enforced abstinence naturally produces. Little restraint was imposed by public opinion. For the nation,... | |
| Luke Tyerman - Clergy - 1866 - 520 pages
...stealth, now broke forth with ungovernable violence ; and, as soon as the check was withdrawn, men flew to frivolous amusements, and to criminal pleasures, with the greediness which long and enforced abstinence naturally produces. Little restraint was imposed by public opinion ; and there... | |
| Albany Fonblanque - Journalists - 1874 - 564 pages
...gratified by stealth, broke forth with ungovernable violence as soon as the check was withdrawn. Men flew to frivolous amusements and to criminal pleasures with the greediness which long and enforced abstinence naturally produces. Little restraint was imposed by public opinion. For the nation,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1877 - 738 pages
...gratified by stealth, broke forth with ungovernable violence as soon as the check was withdrawn. Men flew to frivolous amusements and to criminal pleasures with the greediness which long and enforced abstinence naturally produces. Little restraint was imposed by public opinion. For the nation,... | |
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