 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pages
...clause of a sentence, or a verb in the infinitive mode, or any part of speech used as a noun ; as, "To attack vices in the abstract, without touching-...safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ;" " To see is desirable ;" "Red and green are different colors ;" " Once is too often ;" " Over is... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 768 pages
...clause of a sentence, or a verb in the infinitive mode, or any part of speech used as a noun ; as, "To attack vices in the abstract, without touching' persons, may be safe righting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ;" "To see is desirable ;" "Red and green are different... | |
 | Europe - 1856 - 402 pages
...laws, would prove of small use if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices (or follies) in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows."—POPE. (Sec Junius.) PREFATORY. '- Wouldst see Peace, idiot-like, with smirk and smile A-planting... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 554 pages
...that the best precepts, aswellas thlTbest 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... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 578 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,...see, that those who have no shame, and no fear of anything else, have appeared touched by my satires. " As to your kind concern for my safety, I can... | |
 | Press - 1857 - 294 pages
...only it is impracticable. To reform and not to chastise is, unhappily, impossible. To attack evils in the abstract, without touching persons, may be...fighting, indeed ; but it is fighting with shadows. The fact is, whenever men's interests are attacked, their resentment is certain. A sure way is found... | |
 | baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1858 - 1052 pages
...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 arc obscure, misty, and "uncertain, compared with painful and home examples. "... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1858 - 424 pages
...clause of a sentence, or a verb in the infinitive mode, or any part of speech used as a noun ; as, " To attack vices in the abstract, without touching...safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ;" " To see is desirable ;" "Red and green are different colors ;" "Once is too often;" "Over is not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 348 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... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - 1866 - 540 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 has...no fear of any thing else, have appeared touched by niy satires. As to your kind concern for my safety, I can guess what occasions it at this time. Some... | |
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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... 
