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 | William Shakespeare - 1765 - 610 pages
...borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this reprefenution is, that DO man i'. more dan°crous than he that with a will to corrupt, hath the power to pleafe; and that neither wit nor honefty ought to think themlelves fafe with (iich a companion when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1767 - 314 pages
...but thac it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that uo man is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to pleafe ; and that neither wit nor honefiy ought to think themfelvcs fafe with fuch a companion, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1771 - 442 pages
...fo offenifve but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this reprefentation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that with a will to corrupt, hath the power to pleafe ; and that neither wit nor honefly ought to think themfelves fafe with fuch a companion when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 530 pages
...fanguinary crimes, fo that his licentioufiicfs is not fo offenfi ve but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this representation is,...he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to pleafe; and that neither wit nor honelly ought to think themfelves fafe with fuch a companion when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1780 - 336 pages
...fo offenfive but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be draws from this reprefentation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to pleafe; and that neither wit nor honefty ought to think themfetves fafe with fuch a companion, when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 pages
...fo offenfive but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this reprefentation, is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with a "will to corrupt, hath the power to pleafe ; and that neither wit nor honefty ought to think themfelves fafe with fuch a companion, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 626 pages
...but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this reprefcntatjon if, that no mm 'is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the poucr to pleafe; and that neither wit nor honefty ought to think themfclit; fafe with fuch a companion,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 684 pages
...fo offenfive but that H may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this reprefentation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to pleafe ; and that neither wit nor honefty ought to think themfelves fafe with fuch a companion, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1797 - 694 pages
...not fo oftenfive bat that it may bj barne for his mirth. The iMH to be drawn from this rcprefentation is, that no man is ^more dangerous than he that, with a *i:l to corrupt, hath the power to ^"pleafe j and that neither wit nor honefty o'Oght to think themfelves... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 pages
...fo offenfive but that it may be borne for his mirth. The moral to be drawn from this reprefentation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to pleafc ; and that neither wit nor honefty ought to think themfelves fafe with fuch a companion, when... | |
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