 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1832 - 824 pàgines
...that he thinks a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity....dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally... | |
 | John McVickar - 1833 - 92 pàgines
...But I do wrong to take this defence out of his own hands— " worldly rewards, says Sir W. Scott, are not the recompense which providence has deemed worthy...persons, that rectitude of conduct and of principle, is either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded by the gratification of our passions, or attainment... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 472 pàgines
...exalted by an ttempt to reward virtue with temporal prospety. Such is not the recompense which Proidence has deemed worthy of suffering merit, and it is a...dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle is either naturally... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 474 pàgines
...that he thinks a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity. Such is not the recompense which Pro- \ vidence has deemed worthy of suffering merit, and it is a dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 576 pàgines
...that he thinks a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity....dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 378 pàgines
...that he thinks a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity....dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 374 pàgines
...that he thinks a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity....and it is a dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach O * young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pàgines
...seems. MILTON. A CHARACTER of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp is degraded, rather than exalted, by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity....persons, that rectitude of conduct, and of principle, is either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded by the gratification of our passions, or the... | |
 | 1837 - 598 pàgines
...that he thinks a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity....dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1837 - 428 pàgines
...that he thinks a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity....dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally... | |
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... a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity. Such is not the recompense which Providence has deemed worthy of suffering merit ; and it is a dangerous and... 
