 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1835 - 342 Seiten
...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe righting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain,... | |
 | 1837 - 352 Seiten
...well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no example to enforce them. To atlack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may...no fear of any thing else, have appeared touched by these satires. Pope. 142. Enthusiasm. — I have always looked upon alchymy in natural philosophy,... | |
 | 1843 - 508 Seiten
...chastise, though the one cannot be effected without the other." To this letter Pope replied, that " to attack vices in the abstract, without touching...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows." ****«! wiQ consult my safety so far as I think becomes a prudent man, but not so far as to omit anything... | |
 | Bradford Frazee - 1845 - 214 Seiten
...above. Exercises. " To be blind is calamitous." To live in peace should be the aim of every one. " To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fightingwith shadows." Pope. " To throw the fire-brand of war among the nations at this period, would... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 480 Seiten
...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain, compared with plain, full, and home examples... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 Seiten
...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be 6 Vide Letters between Mr. Pope and others, No. CXLII. safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with... | |
 | Junius - 1850 - 578 Seiten
...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...to see that those who have no shame, and no fear of anything else, have appeared touched by my satires." — JCMCS. power. You, indeed, are a tyrant of... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 Seiten
...clause of a sentence, or a verb in the infinitive mode, or any part of speech used as a noun ; as, " ly and directly, than if they had been composed of...excellences, like those of Nature herself, are th " To show how the understanding proceeds herein, is the design of the following discourse ;" " To see... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 384 Seiten
...writings ever did any good, or had any weight, has been that they raised the anger of bad men. And my greatest comfort, and encouragement to proceed,...see, that those who have no shame, and no fear of anything else, have appeared touched by my satires. As to your kind concern for my safety, I can guess... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce - 1854 - 352 Seiten
...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain, compared with plain, full, and home examples... | |
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To reform and not to chastise I am afraid is impossible, and that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting... 
