 | John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 328 sayfa
...Domitian never surpassed. All this, Nature does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest...and. worthiest enterprises, and often as the direct cons' quence of the noblest acts; and it might almost be imagined as a punishment for them. She mows... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 280 sayfa
...surpassed. All this, Nature does cxiL^ ' with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and . «,.«* noblest indifferently with the meanest and worst ; \&s ^ upon those who are engaged in the highest and ^* j^v^v worthiest enterprises, and often as... | |
 | 1875 - 422 sayfa
...being that lives. . . . All this Nature does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest indifferently with the meanest and worst. . . . All which people are accustomed to deprecate as disorder and its consequences, is precisely a... | |
 | 1875 - 620 sayfa
...Domitian never surpassed. All this, Nature does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest indifferently with the meanest and the worst ; upon those who are engaged in the highest and worthiest entcrprizes, and often as the direct... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 308 sayfa
...Domitian never surpassed. All this Nature does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest indifferently with the meanest and worst." After this fearful arraignment of Nature, made in much detail and with deadly severity of logic, the... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1877 - 450 sayfa
...Domitian never surpassed. All this Nature does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest...often as the direct consequence of the noblest acts, — and it might almost be imagined as a punishment for them. She mows down those on whose existence... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1877 - 452 sayfa
...Domitian never surpassed. All this Nature does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest...often as the direct consequence of the noblest acts, — and it might almost be imagined as a punishment for them. She mows down those on whose existence... | |
 | David Thomas - 1878 - 444 sayfa
...orDomitian never surpassed. All this nature does with the most supercilious disregard both of mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest indifferently with the meanest and the worst — upon those who are engaged in the highest and the worthiest enterprises, and often as... | |
 | Frances Maria Milman - 1879 - 442 sayfa
...Domitian never surpassed. All this Nature does with the most supercilious disregard of mercy and of justice, emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest...often as the direct consequence of the noblest acts ; and it might almost be imagined as a punishment for them. Everything, even that which the worst men... | |
 | Christianity - 1880 - 304 sayfa
...vanities, all is vanity."* And that it is so phenomenally no one can doubt. Mr. Mill speaks of Nature "emptying her shafts upon the best and noblest indifferently...often as the direct consequence of the noblest acts; and it might almost be imagined as a punishment for them."t A more recent writer, whose views of life... | |
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... with hunger, freezes them with cold, poisons them by the quick or slow venom of her exhalations, and has hundreds of other hideous deaths in reserve, such as the ingenious cruelty of a Nabis or a Domitian never surpassed. 
