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" Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. "
Opinions of Prominent Men Concerning the Great Questions of the Times ... - Page 15
by Loyal National League - 1863 - 72 pages
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Stories of school boys

Stories - 1799 - 188 pages
...alas ! too soon broken through. So true is it that — " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar grows her face : We first endure, then pity, then embrace." One day a few of the older boys of the...
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The Port Folio, Volume 2

1809 - 572 pages
...otherwise excite. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen — Yet, seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." And by suppressing the praises due to virtue, we fatally lose the benefit of its salutary...
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A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the ...

Patrick Colquhoun - 1806 - 736 pages
...often exhibited in the Theatres, is tantamount to carrying them to a school of vice and debauchery— Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft — familiar with her face, We first endure — then pity — then embrace....
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Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of two noble families, Volume 2

Elizabeth Strutt - 1807 - 274 pages
...the triumph of vanity. VOL. II. K CHAP. CHAP. XXXII. Vice is a monster of such hideous mein, As to be hated needs but to be seen, But seen too oft familiar grows her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. PERHAPS vice is never more certain...
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The Influence of Tropical Climates More Especially the Climate of ..., Issue 160

James Johnson - 1815 - 564 pages
...the poet sa} s of a still greater evil than dirtiness ?. — *• Vice is a monster of such horrid mien, " That, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; " But seen too oft I" &c. &c. Let us beware, then, of imitating the infidel, who, by subverting what he is pleased to...
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The watchman

James A. Maitland - 1816 - 330 pages
...disquiet their peaceful dreams. CHAPTER XXI. THE PORGEK. " Vice ia a monster of so foul a mien As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with the face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." " I AM sure there M something the matter, George,"...
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The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year ...

William Cobbett - 1817 - 800 pages
...who were placed at the helm of affairs in France. Indeed, the subject in discussion appeard to him. " ——a monster, of such frightful mien, That to be hated, needs but to be seen." A ul iu justice to the right hou. mover, he was inclined to believe he was not sincere in his...
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The baptist Magazine

1818 - 510 pages
...guilt and danger of actually committing it vanish. " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, A» to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first begin to pity, then embrace." 4. Excuses are invented for the indulgence of the particular sin which...
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A Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs

1823 - 406 pages
...may be free from observation. — Familiarity with vice, make a person lose shame in committing it. " Vice is a monster of such frightful mien " That to...with its face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." Quando fueres yunque, sufre como yunque ; quando fueres martillo hiere como martillo. —...
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The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 8

Great Britain. Parliament - 1823 - 818 pages
...dead-weight bill ; and indeed, it would be found a dead weight, to clog the wheels of government. It was " a monster of such frightful mien, • • That to be hated, needs but to be seen." Though he wished the debt to be got rid of, he wished it to be known as his opinion, that the...
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