...error resembles truth, the more dangerous it is. And we may certainly say that while drunkenness " is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen," it is the moderate use of intoxicants by society generally, and Christians in particular, which...

...native deformity, it is universally shunned ; its features are horrible alike to others and to itself. Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. " It is by borrowing...

...and to such a degree as to overpower the tendencies of culture and of grace. When the poet said, " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen," he disregarded the fact that, under certain conditions of the nervous system, nothing is too...

...great danger of being led astray by vice, when it stands before them in all its native deformity. It is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen." But who is safe from the Oircean voice of Temptation ? Temptation is not a hideous monster. It too often...

...corrupt atmosphere, and should bear in mind, also, that truth so well expressed by the poet : — " Vice is a monster of such hideous 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." Without absolute necessity,...

...applicable to Popery as it is to vice, of which, indeed, the former is all but the synonym — " ' It is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen. But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then — embrace.' " Earnestly do...

...applicable to Popery as it is to vice, of which, indeed, the former is all but tho synonym — " ' It is a monster of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen. But seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then — embrace.' " Earnestly do...

...possessing an amount of virtue unattainable by mortals here below, and all the bad ones as " Monsters of such hideous mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen" — the want of unity was amply atoned for by the additional dramatic effect with which it enabled...

...he shall be ousted from the high official places of the land. Well may Pope's lines be applied him: Vice is a monster of such hideous mien That to be hated needd bat to be seen ; But, seen too oft, familiar with its face, We first endure, then pity, then...

...the remonstrances of his conscience almost or quite ceased. So true it is, in all human experience, that,— " Vice is a monster of such hideous mien, That, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; But, seen too oft> familiar grows her face ; We first endure, then pity, then embrace." And man or boy,...