 | Scotland - 1867 - 816 pages
...inhale, and only hate the " poison " which they can imbibe — thus, like other sinners, compounding for " Sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." Under the auspices of Mr Neal Dow (claiming to be the original author or promoter of the Maine Liquor... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 380 pages
...seqwla of exceptions. It is the besetting temptation of many natures, and honest natures too, to " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." - ' - ' -;.;. .'. '-. '.:..' -::/. 7- '-"-.! ^ i And perhaps few sins are more " damned" upon this... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...indifferent to us, but that which is seductive; or, asHudibras more felicitously expresses, — ' Men compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.' Money had no charms for Robespierre, nor wine, nor women,— why not, then, extol his chastity and... | |
 | 1822 - 472 pages
...with too much indulgence in the world. Thus they too, like our modern play-wrights, only make mankind Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. With them, too, prodigality, debauchery and fornication, are not merely venial but reputable offences... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 314 pages
...distract, or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong ", than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have a mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite : The self-same thing... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...dog distract or monkey sick; That with more care kept holiday The wrong, than others the right way ; he throne: alike in place, Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite: The self-same thing they will... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 646 pages
...it.' We will not inquire whether the noble poet lias, in the present case, been one of those, who ' Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.' And we can easily conceive that scarce anything could have been, less suited to Byron's eager and active... | |
 | 1828 - 514 pages
...{able, though not broad, appears to us keen and cutting; it is evidently directed against those who " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." THE SCRUPULOUS CATS, OR THE CASE OF CONSCIENCE. IT was eleven o'clock, or more, When Susan from the... | |
 | 1828 - 592 pages
...it.' We will not inquire whether the noble poet has, in the present case, been one of those, who ' Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.' And we can easily conceive that scarce any thing could have been less suited to Byron's eager and active... | |
 | 1828 - 442 pages
...readers, though not broad, appears to us keen and cutting ; it is evidently directed against those who ' Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.' It is called, THE SCRUPULOUS CATS, OR THE CASE OF CONSCIENCE. IT was eleven o'clock, or more, When... | |
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Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. 
