...— WILLIAM H. ROYLANCE If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think very little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and whistling on the Sabbath, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once you begin upon this...

...(meaning; A nuclear bomb can destroy everything. ) (7)If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath 英语 修辞 学 breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. (DeQuincey) (meaning;...

...moral grounds. Surprisingly, the answer is yes. "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath, breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." This in a world where there is...

...once described an ironic reversal of time whereby 'If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.'24 Amis's novel was based on a similar conceit: the reversal of time. The concentration...

...hilariously lampooned by Thomas De Quincey: fallacy. once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his...

...compares the paradox in De Quincey's Art of Murder : ' if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing ; and from robbing...and from that to incivility and procrastination.' The philosophy which Juvenal despised would have supplied him with a truer ethical standard, and also...

...interim rewards for meeting each task deadline.) If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. — Thomas De Quincey, Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, (1827) Procrastination is the thief...

...Quincey, his familiar words recur to us : " For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing ; and from robbing...and from that to incivility and procrastination." So it is with the autograph collector who suffers himself to be led astray after portraits or wanders...

...says, " My face is set against it in toto. For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path,...