I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the ro...pe having fixed upon his neck very firmly, and he was allowed to hang near three quarters of an hour; so that any attempt to recover him would have been in vain. I comforted myself in thinking that by giving up the scheme I had avoided much anxiety and uneasiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be d...ictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his characte...r, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men about ...us are dupes. But life is a sincerity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men can intoxicate themselves with ideas as effectually as with alcohol or with bang and produce, be dint of serious thinking, men...tal conditions hardly distinguishable from monomania.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No common-place is ever effectually got rid of, except by essentially emptying one's self of it into a book; for once trapped in a... book, then the book can be put into the fire, and all will be well. But they are not always put into the fire; and this accounts for the vast majority of miserable books over those of positive merit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh! what a poor thing is human life in its best enjoyments!--subjected to imaginary evils when it has no real ones to disturb it! ...and that can be made as effectually unhappy by its apprehensions of remote contingencies as if it was struggling with the pains of a present distress!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »