 | American periodicals - 1839 - 606 pages
...Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated bis ruin from some murder or other, that perhaps he thought little of at the tun«.' We have next a portrait of an Ultradelicate, who belonged to the club ; a person of a gloomy,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 404 pages
...incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or...other that perhaps he thought little of at the time. Principiis obsta — that's my rule." Such was my speech, and I hav« always acted up to it; so, if... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English literature - 1862 - 382 pages
...incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or...other that perhaps he thought little of at the time. Principiis obsta — that's my rule." Such was my speech, and I have always acted up to it ; so, if... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1862 - 380 pages
...incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or...other that perhaps he thought little of at the time. Principiis dbsta — that's my rule." Such was my speech, and I have always acted up to it ; so, if... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - History - 1867 - 636 pages
...incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or...other that perhaps he thought little of at the time." We need in the North large majorities, in order that we may control at once this spirit of disunion,... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - Ethics - 1870 - 592 pages
...them in mean positions and circumstances. It succeeds in that kind of comedy of which Aristophanes is the great master; its proper name is Fun. A higher...? Assumed naivete" is another form of this humour. Naivete" itself is unintended, involuntary, humour; it is a statement or an expression which reveals... | |
 | Shadworth Hollway Hodgson - Character - 1870 - 588 pages
...humorist pretends to make much ot emotions trifles. Charles Lamb's Complaint of the Decay of the form. Beggars and his Dissertation upon Roast Pig are notable...? Assumed naivete^ is another form of this humour. Naivete" itself is unintended, involuntary, humour; it is a statement or an expression which reveals... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English essays - 1873 - 596 pages
...incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or...other that perhaps he thought little of at the time. Principiis obsta — that's my rule.' Such was my speech, and I have always acted up to it ; so, if... | |
 | English wit and humor - 1874 - 378 pages
...incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or...other that perhaps he thought little of at the time. Principiis obsta— - that's my rule." A JOKE OF DR. GOODALL'S. Captain Gronow, speaking of Dr. Goodall,... | |
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For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbathbreaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never... 
