...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...

...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 being upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man...

...might otherwise have made an excellent tailor." Here is an oft-quoted saying of De Quincey's: "For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." Leslie Stephen calls De Qulncey "one of the great masters of English in the department...

...out of a chapel of ease a perfect atheist. — Byron Letters. If once a manindulgeshimsc'lf inmurder very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and...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...

...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...

...any special work of art you are meditating — I set my face against it in toto. For, if a man once indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to...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...

...Fine Arts is the best example of his humor. This selection is one of the most whimsical: — " For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path,...

...Fine Arts is the best example of his humor. This selection is one of the most whimsical : — "For, if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begin upon this downward path,...

...on the stage form the climax3. Nettleship aptly compares the paradox in De Quincey's Art of Murder: 'if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon...Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.' The philosophy which Juvenal despised would have supplied him with a truer ethical...

...suspected of dabbling in murder plays a delightful topsy-turvy game with our everyday moral world : If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think very little of robbing ; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath breaking, and from...