Showing posts with label Humphry Clinker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Humphry Clinker. Show all posts
Monday, October 29, 2018
Friday, February 26, 2016
Daily Dose
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, by Tobias Smollett
BUTTS
"Truth is, I look upon both candidates in the same light; and should think myself a traitor to the constitution of my country, if I voted for either. If every elector would bring the same consideration home to his conscience, we should not have such reason to exclaim against the venality of p____ts. But we are all a pack of venal and corrupted rascals; so lost to all sense of honesty, and all tenderness of character, that, in a little time, I am fully persuaded, nothing will be infamous but virtue and public-spirit.”
From Page 817
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Daily Dose
From The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, by Tobias Smollett
MORE PROBABLE
“There is another point, which I would much rather see determined; whether the world was always as contemptible, as it appears to me at present?—If the morals of mankind have not contracted an extraordinary degree of depravity, within these thirty years, then must I be infected with the common vice of old men, difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti; or, which is more probable, the impetuous pursuits and avocations of youth have formerly hindered me from observing those rotten parts of human nature, which now appear so offensively to my observation.”
From Page 503
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