 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1862 - 482 pages
...those qualities so con genial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanency in the onion with kindred frost and kindred opacity. Nor, indeed,...lords, except where the interest of millions can be effected by the folly or the '.•ice of an individual, need it be munb regretted that to things not... | |
 | James Roderick O'Flanagan - Judges - 1870 - 654 pages
...but the perverseness of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark ; no fire to waste them, and...congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanence in the union with kindred frost and kindred opacity. Nor indeed, my Lords, except when the... | |
 | 1871 - 756 pages
...coalesce with those qualities too congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanency in union with kindred frost and kindred opacity. Nor,...the vice or the folly of an individual, need it be regretted that to things not worthy to bo made much better it had not pleased Providence to afford... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages
...but the perverseness of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark ; no fire to waste them, and...congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanence in the union with kindred frost and kindred opacity. Nor indeed, my Lords, except when the... | |
 | 1871 - 650 pages
...but the pcrverseness of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark ; no fire to waste them, and...congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanence in the union with kindred frost and kindred opacity. Nor indeed, my Lords, except when the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1871 - 604 pages
...but the perverseness of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark ; no fire to waste them, and...congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanence in the union with kindred frost and kindred opacity. Nor indeed, my Lords, except when the... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 pages
...but the perverseness of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark ; no fire to waste them, and...congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanence in the union with kindred frost and J kindred opacity. Nor, indeed, my lords, except when... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 pages
...but the perverseness of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark ; no fire to waste them, and...congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanence in the union with kindred frost and kindred opacity. Nor, indeed, my lords, except when... | |
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But the perverseness of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark : no fire to waste them, and no ray to enlighten, they assimilate and coalesce with those qualities so congenial to their nature,... 
