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They seemed to typify vice for vice's sake, elegant vice and pessimism as a principle. Indeed, when Mathieu tried to sum up his day, he found vice on every side, in each of the spheres with which he had come in contact.
Beauchamp asked her if she had brought servants with her; and it gratified her to see that he was no actor fitted to carry a scene through in virtue's name and vice's mask with this actress. She replied, 'I have brought a man and a maid-servant. The establishment will be in town the day after tomorrow, in time for my lord's return from the Castle. 'You can have them up to-morrow morning.
Thou, passenger, that shalt have so much time To view my grave, and ask what was my crime; No stain of error, no black vice's brand, Was that which chased me from my native land. Love to my country twice sentenced to die Constrain'd my hands forgotten arms to try. More by friends' fraud my fall proceeded hath Than foes, though now they thrice decreed my death.
Abstract evil is as demonstrably an impossibility as abstract ignorance, or abstract weakness. If evil could have self-existed, it would in the moment of its eternal birth have demolished itself. Virtue's intrinsic concord tends to perpetual being: vice's innate discord struggles always with a force towards dissolution.
Vice jostling virtue in the public places; virtue imitating the fashions set by vice, and buying trinkets or furniture at the sale of vice's effects these are social phenomena which the East knows not.
The hopeful minister felt that his Master had directed him to this spot, and that now his real life-work had begun. With that dull, callous, rooted impudence, Which, dead to shame and every nicer sense, Ne'er blushed, unless, when spreading Vice's snares, He stumbled on some virtue unawares. A YEAR has passed since the events recorded in the preceding pages, and it is summer again.
And I love you the better because you are as fresh and pure as a flower, untainted by the wicked world, where innocence rubs off her bloom on vice's shoulders. I am not old, dear, but I have lived long enough to appreciate the value of " "Hush, or I shall think you do not mean all you say. Oh, Jack, promise me that you will never repent of your bargain.
Beauchamp asked her if she had brought servants with her; and it gratified her to see that he was no actor fitted to carry a scene through in virtue's name and vice's mask with this actress. She replied, 'I have brought a man and a maid-servant. The establishment will be in town the day after tomorrow, in time for my lord's return from the Castle. 'You can have them up to-morrow morning.
She can fill up the carets in such, make their scope Converge to some focus of rational hope, And, with sympathies fresh as the morning, their gall Can transmute into honey, but this is not all; Not only for those she has solace; O, say, Vice's desperate nursling adrift in Broadway, Who clingest, with all that is left of thee human, To the last slender spar from the wreck of the woman, Hast thou not found one shore where those tired, drooping feet Could reach firm mother-earth, one full heart on whose beat The soothed head in silence reposing could hear The chimes of far childhood throb back on the ear?"
But if we must grant pleasure something, since we do not find it easy to resist its charms, for Plato, with happy inspiration, calls pleasure "vice's bait," because of course men are caught by it as fish by a hook, yet, although old age has to abstain from extravagant banquets, it is still capable of enjoying modest festivities.
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