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" ... mischief. The will , chooses, follows, and embraces things evil and destructive ; but it is because the understanding first tells it that they are good and wholesome, and fit to be chosen by it. One man gives another a cup of poison, a thing as terrible... "
Anecdotes of Actors: With Other Desultory Recollections, Etc. Etc. Etc. By ... - Page 47
by Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson) - 1844 - 430 pages
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Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, Volume 2

Robert South - 1823 - 614 pages
...gives another a cup of poison, a thing as terrible as death ; but at the same time he tells him that it is a cordial ; and so he drinks it off, and dies. From the beginning of the world to this day, there was never any great villainy acted by men, but it...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 17

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...amiss, hut proved no security to him, when the people were grown weary of ill government. Duoenant. One gives another a cup of poison, but at the same...cordial, and so he drinks it off and dies. South. Wretches who live upon other men's sins, the common poisoners of youth, getting their veiy bread by...
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Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, Volume 1

Robert South - 1842 - 626 pages
...gives another a cup of poison, a thing as terrible as death ; but at the same time he tells him that it is a cordial ; and so he drinks it off, and dies. From the beginning of the world to this day, there was never any great villainy acted by men, but it...
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Tea-table Talk, Ennobled Actresses, and Other Miscellanies, Volume 2

Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson) - 1857 - 362 pages
...parents' early endeavours to make her a fool. HOLLAND AND KEMBLE. " One gives another a cup ofvffoison, but at the same time tells him it is a cordial, and...engaged there as a star. Mr. Holland having, on one of thr" nights of the great man's appearance, to perform Horatio, in Hamlet, with him, felt more than...
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Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions, Volume 1

Robert South - 1859 - 602 pages
...gives another a cup of poison, a thing as terrible as death ; but at the same time ho tells him that it is a cordial ; and so he drinks it off, and dies. From the beginning of the world to this day, there was never any great villainy acted by men, but it...
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The temperance daily text book, compiled by J.W. Kirton

Temperance daily text book - 1883 - 264 pages
...another a cup of poison, \J a thing as terrible as death ; but at the same time, he tells him that it is a cordial, and so he drinks it off, and dies." — South. IN the standing orders of the 13th (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry, the following extract from an...
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Robert South (1634-1716): An Introduction to His Life and Sermons

Gerard Reedy - 1992 - 200 pages
...Harvard University Press, 1972), p. 4. thing as terrible as death; but at the same time he tells him that it is a cordial, and so he drinks it off, and dies" (1 10). The intellect is the only passage from the will's natural choice of the good to the disorder...
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