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If it be pardonable or even praise-worthy, as some moralists assert to pity the criminal, while righteously hating the crime, a trifle of compassion may be spared for Paul de Roustache. He had made up his mind to molest the Countess of Fieramondi no more provided he got the fifty thousand francs from M. Guillaume.
If, besides the Accomplishments of being Witty and Ill-natured, a Man is vicious into the bargain, he is one of the most mischievous Creatures that can enter into a Civil Society. His Satyr will then chiefly fall upon those who ought to be the most exempt from it. Virtue, Merit, and every thing that is Praise-worthy, will be made the Subject of Ridicule and Buffoonry.
Instead of tracing the changes that have taken place in society since Addison or Fielding wrote, he transcribes their account in a different hand-writing, and thus keeps us stationary, at least in our most attractive and praise-worthy qualities of simplicity, honesty, hospitality, modesty, and good-nature.
Once placed outside their secluded "Pale," the Jews "will succeed in adopting from the genuine Russians the praise-worthy qualities, by which they are distinguished, and the striving for culture and useful endeavor will become universal."
Among these exercises or acts, some are morally good, others morally bad; the desires of the good are also praise-worthy, the desires of the bad are blameable; but if so, much more are the pleasures attached to the good exercises, good pleasures and the pleasures attached to the bad exercises, bad pleasures.
It is thus that the preceptor obtaineth his highly praise-worthy livelihood. And thus also should the disciple behave towards the preceptor's son. Men also from all directions shower wealth upon him; and many people come to his abode for practising Brahmacharya.
Virtue aims at the mean between them, or the maximum of Good: which implies a correct estimation of all the circumstances of the act, when we ought to do it under what conditions towards whom for what purpose in what manner, &c. This is the praise-worthy mean, which virtue aspires to.
This he did; and it was praise-worthy. But the blood that is unjustly spilt, is not again gathered up from the ground by repentance. These medicines, ministered to the dead, have but dead rewards. This king, as I have said, had four sons. To Lothair his eldest he gave the Kingdom of Italy; as Charlemagne, his father, had done to Pepin, the father of Bernard, who was to succeed him in the Empire.
By this means innocents are blasted upon their first appearance in town: and there is nothing more required to make a young woman the object of envy and hatred, than to deserve love and admiration. This abominable endeavour to suppressor lessen every thing that is praise-worthy, is as frequent among the men as women.
In point of policy, this zeal was more praise-worthy than English negligence: for such barbarians would certainly have been much easier tamed and civilized by mild instruction than by force of arms.
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