 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 444 pages
...or not to worship the gods ; to obey or not to obey those laws of morality, which have been always held most sacred among men, availed nothing. All died...regular course of law, was supposed against all chance; and the final consummation already impending over equally the criminal and the innocent, by the decree... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1810 - 446 pages
...unknown licentiousness of. manners followed. Let us enjoy ourselves ; let us, if possible, dro-.vn thought in pleasure today, for to-morrow we die, was...regular course of law, was supposed against all chance; and the final comsummation already impending over equally the criminal and the innocent, by the decree... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 874 pages
...followed. Let us enjoy ourselves ; let us, if possible, drown thought in pleasure today, for to-morrow wc die, was the prevailing maxim. No crime therefore...to survive, so that an offender could be convicted ii. regular course of law, was supposed against all chance; and the final consummation already impending... | |
 | William Mitford - 1814 - 444 pages
...surest to suffer. An inordinate, and before unknown, licentiousness of manners followed. Let us injoy ourselves, let us, if possible, drown thought in pleasure...crime, therefore, that could give the means of any injoyment was scrupled ; for such were the ravages of the disease, that for perpetrator, accuser, and... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 356 pages
...bore, and go away. The moral effects of this exiraordinary visitation are well deserving of notice. " The fear of the divine power," says Thucydides, "ceased;...accuser, and judges, all to survive, so that an offender should be convicted in the regular course of law, was in the highest degree improbable. Any punishment... | |
 | 1821 - 490 pages
...generally and very anxiously for the dispensation of temporal good and evil only, it was otherwise. The fear of the divine power, says Thucydides, ceased...accuser, and judges, all to survive, so that an offender couid he convicted in regular course of law, was supposed against all chance. The final consummation... | |
 | William Mitford - 1822 - 436 pages
...surest to suffer. An inordinate, and before unknown, licentiousness of manners followed. Let us injoy ourselves, let us, if possible, drown thought in pleasure...crime, therefore, that could give the means of any injoyment was scrupled ; for such were the ravages of the disease, that for perpetrator, accuser, and... | |
 | William Mitford - 1835 - 366 pages
...to-day, for to-morrow we die, was the prevailing maxim. No crime therefore that could give prospect of any enjoyment was scrupled ; for such were the...supposed against all chance. The final consummation already impending over equally the criminal and the innocent, by the decree of fate or of the gods,... | |
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... held most sacred among men, availed nothing. All died alike ; or if there was a difference, the virtuous, the charitable, the generous, exposing themselves beyond others, were the first and the surest to suffer. An inordinate and before unknown licentiousness... 