 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 Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.  The Holocaust In American Life - Page 15by Peter Novick - 2000 - 382 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | American literature - 1879 - 336 pages
...Never tell me of any special work of art you are meditating — I set my face against it in toto. For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man... | |
 | Franklin Fiske Heard - Law - 1881 - 212 pages
...go home and burn my books." — "My Lord " replied Dunning, "you had better go home and read them." IF once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 pages
...Antielimax. — Any great departure from the order of ascending strength is called an anticlimax. Thus: "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes ntxt to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and front that to incivility and procrastination."— DE QUINCIY.... | |
 | Thomas Coglan Horsfall - Aesthetics - 1883 - 56 pages
...observed. In the grimly humorous " Essay on Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts," De Quincey says : " If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...Sabbath-breaking ; and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - California - 1888 - 998 pages
...part of the regular duties in my service. Now that waa a thing I would not allow. So I said at once, ' if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once 1«gin upon this downward path you never know where you are to stop. Many a man... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1888 - 846 pages
...part of the regular dnties in my service. Now that was a thing I would not allow. So I said at once, ' if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path you never know where you are to stop. Many a man... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1888 - 842 pages
...thing I would not allow. So I said at once, 'if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon lie comes to think little of robbing '; and from robbing...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path you never know where you are to stop. Many a man... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1888 - 490 pages
...meditating, — I set my face against it in Mo. For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon lie comes to think little of robbing ; and from robbing...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Readers - 1888 - 456 pages
...meditating, — I set my face against it in toto. For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very srion he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, an 1 from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1890 - 466 pages
...Never tell me of any special work of art you are meditating—I set my face against it in toto. For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man... | |
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