 | rev. John Brougham - 1813 - 310 pages
...man, and intoxicate his understanding, that render him insensible to the advice of the monitor, and deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. To remedy this misfortune of our nature, it is necessary not only to believe the promises of the gospel,... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1813 - 726 pages
...having eyes to see they will not see; having hearts to understand they will not understand. They are deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. It is not my business to furnish them with candour. I leave them therefore to the hardness of their... | |
 | Henry Martyn - 1822 - 386 pages
...in it. But no! nothing of this sort can gain his attention. It possesses no interest for him. He is deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. Strike what string you will, there is no chord in his heart that sounds in unison. What must we say... | |
 | William Hone - 1828 - 514 pages
...b» convinced by any arguments he could advance, but that, like the adder in holy •writ, I was " deaf to the voice of 'the charmer, charm he never so wisely," thus addressed me : — " I was like you, sceptical on the subject of our present discourse ; but the... | |
 | Zachary Macaulay, Samuel Charles Wilks, John William Cunningham - 1830 - 556 pages
...not." The love of sin blinds his eyes, and shuts his ears, and hardens his heart : " he will not listen to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely." But though such is the case in too many instances, happily it is not so in all. There are those who, like... | |
 | 1857 - 504 pages
...creatures about us. It will not " come and be killed" like a duck, or a barn-door fowl ; will not listen to the voice of the charmer, "charm he never so wisely ;" but persists in disbelieving in the benevolent intentions of its pursuer, and in hiding away in the thickest... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1832 - 970 pages
...rouse their indignation against the House of Commons, and grieved that they were so apathetic as to be deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. I, at least, have never called for a list of privy councillors, in order to direct against them the... | |
 | 1832 - 954 pages
...rouse their indignation against the House of Commons, and grieved that they were so apathetic as to be deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. I, at least, have never called for a list of privy councillors, in order to direct against them the... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...now suffer the most trifling excuses frequently to keep you. By the loss of hearing he can render you deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. Accident or sickness may confine you from the place where his honour dwelleth. Or a change of business... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...now suffer the most trifling excuses frequently to keep you. By the loss of hearing he can render you deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. Accident or sickness may confine you from the place where his honour dwelleth. Or a change of business... | |
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But although, from the very first, we clearly discerned and forcibly pointed out the disastrous effects on the freedom, peace, and tranquillity, first of France, and then of the... 
