...passions are daily cooling down, the virtues of abstinence become more attractive, and men are prone to " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." The changes now described come not upon men of one disposition of character only, but on all. The old...

...sterling wit and profound satire, where, speaking of certain religious hypocrites, he says, that they " Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to;" but the wit consists in the truth of the character, and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous contradiction...

...passions are daily cooling down, the virtues of abstinence become more attractive, and men are prone to " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." The changes now described come not upon men of one disposition of character only, but on all. The old...

...sterling wit and profound satire, where, speaking of certain religious hypocrites, he says, that they " Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to;" but the wit consists in the truth of the character, and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous contradiction...

...departed ? Have not those who now live (1845) seen graphically verified the lines of Hudibras, Who with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than others the right way 1 ie, who would positively take more pains to desecrate Christmas, than others would to reverence it?...

...antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; That...others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped...

...antipathies ; In falling out with that or this, And finding somewhat still amiss ; More peevish, cross, and splenetic, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; That...others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped...

...out with that or this. And finding somewhat still amiss : 2I0 More peevish, cross, and splenetick, Than dog distract, or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong, than othefs the right way : Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, 3I5 By damning those they have no mind...

...Dante's preachers, seems to have been one of those wlf-ignorant or •elf-exasperated denouncer*, who " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." He was a glutton, who could not bear to see ladies too little clothed. The denemg of " God's image"...

...easy ; the Mussulmen are, in short, much like their fellow men in other latitudes, well disposed "To compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." The profession of the leading truths of their religion is always on their lips ; soldiers, watchmen,...