| William Alfred Jones - 1840 - 188 ページ
...authority, is deprecated with the greatest earnestness. They follow with zeal the maxim of Hudibras, to " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." They add to the sum of their transgressions by continual slander. Their guilt, like the sorites argument,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1841 - 446 ページ
...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 anything could have been less suited to Bryon's eager and active... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1841 - 590 ページ
...are consumed by themselves ; thus realizing the picture of the class described by Hudibras, who, " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." Mr. Delavan, nothing daunted by this opposition, still devotes nearly all his time, and a very large... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - 1842 - 988 ページ
...peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick — That with more care keep holyday The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins...inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to, Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spight, The self-same thing they will... | |
| John Warden Robberds - 1843 - 594 ページ
...Than dog distract or monkey sick, That with more care keep holiday By work than others do by play, Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to ; Still so perverse and opposite. As if they worship'd God for spite, At jar with all and with each... | |
| 1856 - 606 ページ
...peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick j That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins...inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite, The self-same thing they will... | |
| 1856 - 1432 ページ
...peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way; Compound for sins...inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite, The self-same thing they will... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1844 - 818 ページ
...thanked him for his proposal, but the conduct of the Dean and Chapter reminded him of those, who " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." The Bishop of Gloucester always understood, that whenever it was the intention of any noble Lord to... | |
| John Henry Hobart - 1844 - 286 ページ
...heart, are in nothing more apparent than in the disposition of men to make a commutation of vices. " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." repeated by rote, as the school-boy would con over his lesson. But the Christian is " meek and lowly... | |
| 1844 - 94 ページ
...burthened with a conscience. Butler in his inimitable " Hudibras," tell us of certain individuals, who " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." And perhaps Her Majesty's advocate belongs to this curious class of persons. The opinions I hold, are... | |
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