 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 232 sayfa
...not to chaftife, I am afraid, is //npoffiblej and that ths \seSt TJw^x^ *s, -well •»& as the beft Laws, would prove of fmall ufe, if there were no Examples to inforce them. To attack Vices in the abftra<£t, without touching Perfons, ' may be fafe fighting indeed,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 330 sayfa
...reform and not to chaftife, I am afraid, is impofiible; and that the beft Precepts, as well as the beft Laws, would prove of fmall ufe, if there were no Examples to inforce them. To attack Vices in the aburad, without touching Ferions, may be fafe fighting indeed,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 314 sayfa
...of final 1 ule, if there were no Examples to inforce them. To VOL. VIII. R attack 242 LETTERS TO AND attack Vices in the abftract, without touching Perfons,...may be fafe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with Shadows. General proportions are obfcure, mifty, and uncertain, compar'd with plain, full, and home... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 274 sayfa
...indeed, but it is fighting with Shadows. GeneTal proportions are^ohfture, jnifly, and Uncertain, compar'd with plain, full, and home examples: Precepts only apply to our Reafon, which in moft jiien is. but weak •: Examples are plclctes, and ftrike the Senfes, nay raife the Paffiops,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 270 sayfa
...reform and not to chaftife, I am afraid, is impofiible ; and that the bell Precepts, as well as the beft Laws, would prove of fmall ufe, if there were no Examples to inforce them. To attack Vices in the abftraft, without touching Perfons, may be fafe fighting indeed,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 308 sayfa
...reform and not to chaftife, I am afraid, is impofiible; and that the beft Precepts, as well as the beft Laws, would prove of fmall ufe, if there were no Examples to inforce them. To attack Vices in the abftradl, without touching Perfons, may be fafe fighting indeed,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 sayfa
...and not to chaftife, I am afraid is " impoffible; and that the beft precepts, as well " as the beft laws, would prove of fmall ufe, " if there were no...enforce them. " To attack vices in the abftract, without *c touching perfons, may be fafe fighting indeed, " but it is fighting with fhadows. " As to your kind... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1770 - 406 sayfa
...reform and not to chaftife, I am afraid, is impofiible; and that the beft Precepts, as well as the beft Laws, would prove of fmall ufe, if there were no Examples to enforce them. To atttack Vices in the abftraft, without touching Perfons, may be fafe fighting indeed, but it is fighting... | |
 | Junius - 1772 - 262 sayfa
...prove of fmall ufe, if there « wore no examples to Enforce them. To attack vices in the ' abftiaQ, without touching perfons, may be fafe fighting « indeed, but it is fighting with fhadows. My greateft corr.'frit and encouragement to proceed has been to fee that ' thofe, who have no fhame,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1782 - 514 sayfa
...anfwer, fays, " To reform, and not \acbaflife, is impoffible ; and the beft precepts, as well as the beft laws, would prove of fmall ufe, if there were no examples to enforce them." / ana i~ THE ftrokes of fatirt epiftle, have fuch an ex poignancy, that our an has been much cenfim... | |
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laws, would prove of fmall ufe, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abftract, without touching perfons, may be fafe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with fhadows. General propofitions are obfcure, mifty, and uncertain,... 
