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" But once in six or seven years our virtue becomes outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines that the English people appreciate the importance of domestic ties.... "
London Society - Page 207
edited by - 1866
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Selections from the Edinburgh Review: Comprising the Best Articles in that ...

Maurice Cross - 1835 - 440 pages
...outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines, that the English...If he has children, they are to be taken from him. lf he has a profession, he is to be driven from it. He is cut by the higher orders, and hissed by the...
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...libertines, that the English people appreciate the importance of domestic lies. Ac— í-OTíitngly, some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved...have been treated with lenity, is singled out as an eipiatory sacriflcc. If he has children, they are lo be taken from him. If he has a profession, he...
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Venetia, Issue 33

Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1837 - 502 pages
...outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines that the English people appreciate the importance of domestic tics. Accordingly, some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved than hundreds whose offences have...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 131

English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. Accordingly, some unfortunate man, in no respect more...lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice.' Byron was so singled out ; and, it so happened, was singled out at a time when he was undergoing the...
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal, Volume 18

Periodicals - 1844 - 358 pages
...the " laws of religion and decency to be violated : we must make " a stand against vice : we miiHt teach libertines that the " English people appreciate...Accordingly some unfortunate man, in no respect more de" praved than hundreds whose offences have been treated with " lenity, is singled out as an expiatory...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 16

1849 - 588 pages
...outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand ct came To rectify or ravage. For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of m j-stery tics. Accordingly, some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved than hundreds whose offences have...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines, that the English...lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If h» has children, they are to be taken from him. If he has a profession, he is to be driven from it....
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand ble on which stands the ome'ei for Nugent and the...of Lington ; the courtly sneer of Beauclerk arid ht has children, they are to be taken from him. If he has a profession, he is to be driven from it....
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...vice. We must teach libertines, that the Eiglish people appreciate the importance of domestic lies. Accordingly, some unfortunate man, in no respect more...lenity, is singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. If h« has children, they are to be taken from him. If he has a profession, he is to be driven from it....
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand / / / , , / / / / / / / , , , lies. Accordingly, some unfortunate man, in no respect more depraved than hundreds whose offences have...
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