V. Knox

Cited as V. Knox. — 17 quotations

He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed.

It has been the fashion to detract both from the moral and literary character of Cicero.

The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic.

Luxury had not emasculated their minds.

He . . . accumulated a handsome sum of money.

If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens.

The infidel writer is a great enemy to society.

There is, indeed, no doubt but that vanity is one of the principal causes of infidelity.

Natural sagacity improved by generous education.

Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule.

The very ingenious speculatist, Mr. Hume.

Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes.

Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface.

Fraud and injustice soon follow, and the dignity of the British merchant is sunk in the scandalous appellation of a swindler.

The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers.

Though he may vociferate the word liberty.

Exhortation vulgarized by low wit.