 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 628 pages
...writings ever did any good, or had any weight, has been that they raised the anger of bad men. And my greatest comfort, and encouragement to proceed,...thing else, have appeared touched by my Satires.* " Arbuthnot advises Pope to study more to reform than to chastise. Pope replies, that to reform and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 602 pages
...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain, compared with plain, full, and home examples... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain, compared with plain, full, and home examples.... | |
 | Junius - 1824 - 362 pages
...them. To attack vices in the ahstract, without touching persons, may he safe fighting, indeed, hut it is fighting with shadows. My greatest comfort and encouragement to proceed, has heen to see, that those who have no shame, and no fear of any thing else, have appeared touched hy... | |
 | Alexander Bailey Richmond - 1825 - 208 pages
...less formidable difficulty presented itself. Pope, in one of his letters to Dr. Arbuthnot, says, " to attack vices in the abstract, without touching...safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ;" and my situation fully verified the truth of his remark. It would have served no purpose to point... | |
 | Alexander Bailey Richmond - 1825 - 208 pages
...less formidable difficulty presented itself. Pope, in one of his letters to Dr. Arbuthnot, says, " to attack vices in the abstract, without touching...safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ;" and my situation fully verified the truth of his remark. It would have served ho purpose to point... | |
 | Junius - 1827 - 226 pages
...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe lighting, indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. My greatest comfort and encouragement to proceed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1831 - 384 pages
...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is f1ghting with shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain, compared with plain,... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1833 - 202 pages
...turns in the understanding." Locke, 2. 14. Here the whole clause in italics is the nominative to is. " To attack vices in the abstract, without touching...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows." — Pope, Let. 48. " I deny that men's coming to the use of reason, is the time of their discovery."... | |
 | Junius - 1834 - 228 pages
...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...see, that those who have no shame, and no fear of anj thing else, have appeared touched by my satires." motives. If your excess of modesty forbids you... | |
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To reform and not to chastise I am afraid is impossible, and that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting... 
