| John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane - Страниц: 352
...anaesthetized animals are quite definitely hypocrites, engaged in the familiar pursuit of ' Compounding sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.' There are few more disgusting spectacles in our public life than that of the two or three sporting... | |
| Library Association - 1903 - Страниц: 758
...unfair to condemn a good thing because some few persons abuse it. There are always those who Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. We do not fall foul of our Town Councils for spending the ratepayers' money in having the streets well... | |
| 2003 - Страниц: 596
...some who tempted one at times to recall Samuel Butler's caustic comment on the Puritans who "compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to". My point is that home-brewed beers form a very important element in the diet of the more primitive... | |
| Ingrid Sharp, Jane Jordan - 2002 - Страниц: 320
...sufferer from his or her occupation? That great class of purists who never knew temptation, who "Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to," and who rehearse their lead-coffin principles of exclusiveness whilst yet alive, may possibly object... | |
| Susan Hamilton - 2004 - Страниц: 328
...spirit to condemn smaller cruelties which they regard as bringing no advantage to them. They Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. But, after all, they do but represent the spirit of the law of the land, which allows any one to inflict... | |
| Francis Beckett - 2006 - Страниц: 182
...politician, at the hands of Reginald Paget MP, who said men like Hailsham (a portly man) 'compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to,' adding: 'When self-indulgence has reduced a man to the shape of Lord Hailsham, sexual continence involves... | |
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