 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 528 pages
...any they had passed, being ten times more fierce and unmanageable." Mackenzie makes Harley observe, " I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest...that it is not in their power to alleviate it." The last plate of Hogarth's ' Rake's Progress/ of a date a few years earlier, gives even a more vivid picture... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - Benevolence - 1893 - 222 pages
...accompanied him to several other shows, proposed a visit. Harley objected to it, " because," said he, " I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest...visitant who can afford a trifling perquisite to the THE MAN OF FEELING. 47 keeper ; especially as it is a distress which the humane must see, with the... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - Labor - 1897 - 218 pages
...times. " I think it an inhuman practice," he says, " to expose the greatest misery with which our race is afflicted, to every idle visitant who can afford...reflection that it is not in their power to alleviate it." It will be remembered that the last picture in Hogarth's series of " The Rake's Progress " gives even... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Great Britain - 1902 - 560 pages
...accompanied him to several other shows, proposed a visit. Harley objected to it, " because," said he, " I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest...reflection, that it is not in their power to alleviate it." He was overpowered, however, by the solicitations of his friend and the other persons of the party... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Eustace Budgell - 1904 - 426 pages
...accompanied him to several other shows, proposed a visit. Harley objected to it, " because," said he, " I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest misery with which our nature is\afflicted to every idle visitant who can afford a trifling perquisite to the keeper ; especially... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - Benevolence - 1906 - 440 pages
...accompanied him to several other shows, proposed a visit. Harley objected to it, 'because', said he, 'I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest...reflection, that it is not in their power to alleviate it'. He was overpowered, however, by the solicitations of his friend and the other persons of the party... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1902 - 428 pages
...accompanied him to several other shows, proposed a visit. Harley objected to it, " because," said he, " I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest misery with which \J our nature is afflicted to every idle visitant who can afford a/ trifling perquisite to the keeper... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...said he, ' I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest misery our nature is afflicted with to every idle visitant who can afford a trifling perquisite...reflection that it is not in their power to alleviate it.' He was overpowered, however, by the solicitations of his friend and the other persons of the party... | |
 | Annette Brown Hopkins - English fiction - 1915 - 824 pages
...accompanied him to several other shows, proposed a visit. Harley objected to it, "because," said he, "I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest...reflection, that it is not in their power to alleviate it." He was overpowered, however, by the solicitations of his friend and the other persons of the party... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - Benevolence - 1928 - 216 pages
...humane objections : " I think it an inhuman practice," he says, " to expose the greatest misery to which our nature is afflicted, to every idle visitant...who can afford a trifling perquisite to the keeper ..." etc. Again, it lies beneath Ben Silton's defence of poetry in the stage-coach conversation : "... | |
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because," said he, " I think it an inhuman practice to expose the greatest misery with which our nature is afflicted to every idle visitant who can afford a trifling perquisite to the keeper; especially as it is a distress which the humane must see,... 
