 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pàgines
...distraught or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holiday The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are 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... | |
 | Joseph Devey - 1862 - 386 pàgines
...overlooked ? Was the end to justify the means, or were these rigid sticklers of conscience disposed — " To compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to ? " It would not be difficult to show that there was a greater amount of labour so employed, by tenfold,... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1862 - 328 pàgines
...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 no mind to.' In the year 1646, Christmas-day was ordered to be kept as a fast, whilst, on Ash Wednesday, Oliver... | |
 | Joseph Devey - 1862 - 390 pàgines
...overlooked ? Was the end to justify the means, or were these rigid sticklers of conscience disposed — " To compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to ? " It would not be difficult to show that there was a greater amount of labour so employed, by tenfold,... | |
 | 1862 - 830 pàgines
...great merit of committing only one of these wrongs, while they condemn and avoid the other. They thus " Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to." . It is with this miserable class that those who attempt to alleviate the miseries of prisons have... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1863 - 362 pàgines
...crime acts and practices as harmless and sinless as the prattle of children, as well as to those who " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." There are men, for instance, who attach a peculiar merit to the entertainment of a certain set of theological... | |
 | 1866 - 210 pàgines
...diatribes against the French school ? I cannot help thinking of the hackneyed quotation of those who ' Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.' Yours verv truly, BttWARb L. PEMBERTON. [While agreeing in many of the viuws expressed by our facile... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1895 - 526 pàgines
...manifestly unjust. Who were they, after all, that they should pick and choose in the Decalogue, and Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to ? No. 428. — VOL. LXXII. If, in one fatal respect, Edmund had not been born a Heron, but had followed... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pàgines
...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 no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite. The self-same thing they will... | |
 | James McGrigor Allan - 1864 - 412 pàgines
...does not in a considerable degree apply ? Who does not in some degree verify the poet's satire — " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." Among Protestants as well as Catholics there are too many who make this shocking compromise with conscience.... | |
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Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. 
