 There is nothing which obtains so general an influence over the manners and morals of a people as the Press; from that, as from a fountain, the streams of vice or virtue are poured forth over a country: And of all publications, none are more calculated...  Miscellaneous Letters & Essays: On Various Subjects - Страница 18написао/ла Thomas Paine - 1819 - 261 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Thomas Paine - 1819
...a vice imported. The latter depending on favour, would be a sycophant ; the other by pride of hirth would be a tyrant. To the one we should be dupes ;...renews the pursuit. If it has no evil tendency, it dehauches by the power of repetition ; if a good one, it obtains favour by the gracefulness of soliciting... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824
...to create any. A vice begotten might be worse tlinn a vice imported. The latter, depending on favor, would be a sycophant ; the other, by pride of birth...their exit; but this renews the pursuit. If it has an evil tendency, it debauches by the power of repetition ; if a good one, it obtains favor by the... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824
...a vice imported. The latter, depending on favor, would be a sycophant ; the other, by pride ofbirth would be a tyrant : to the one we should be dupes,...their exit; but this renews the pursuit. If it has an evil tendency, it debauches by the power of repetition ; if a good one, it obtains favor by the... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1824
...subjects, is doing them a kind of dishonor. The divine mechanism of creation reproves such folly, and shows There is nothing which obtains so general an influence...as from a fountain, the streams of vice or virtue nrc poured forth over a country : and of all publications, none are more calculated to improve or infect... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1835
...to create any. A vice begotten might be worse than a vice imported. The lat.er, depending on favor, would be a sycophant ; the other, by pride of birth...their exit ; but this renews the pursuit. If it has an evil tendency, it debauches by the power of repetition ; if a good one, it obtains favor by the... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1859 - 479 страница
...create any. A vice begotten might be worse than a vice imported. . The lat.cr, depending on favor, would be a sycophant ; the other, by pride of birth...their exit ; but this renews the pursuit. If it has an evil tendency, it debauches by the power of repetition ; if a good one, it obtains favor by the... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1878
...to create any. A vice begotten might be worse than a vice imported. The lat.er, depending on favor, would be a sycophant ; the other, by pride of birth...their exit ; but this renews the pursuit. If it has an evil tendency, it debauches by the power of repetition ; if a good one, it obtains favor by the... | |
 | MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY - 1906
...would be tempted to be¿ lieve that even the air of the Atlantic disagrees with the constitution of foreign vices; if they survive the voyage, they either...their exit; but this renews the pursuit. If it has an evil tendency, it debauches by the power of repetition; if a good one, it obtains favor by the gracefulness... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896
...natural vigor. Like an untenanted house it falls into decay, and frequently ruins the possessor. . . . There is nothing which obtains so general an influence...their exit; but this renews the pursuit. If it has an evil tendency, it debauches by the power of repetition; if a good one, it obtains favor by the gracefulness... | |
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