...inhale, and only hate the " poison " which they can imbibe — thus, like other sinners, compounding for " Sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." Under the auspices of Mr Neal Dow (claiming to be the original author or promoter of the Maine Liquor...

...where speaking of certain religious hypocrites he says, that they " Compound for sins they are inclin'd to, By damning those they have no mind to ;" but the...character, and in the happy exposure of the ludicrous con tradiction between the pretext and the practice ; between their lenity towards their own vices,...

...seqwla of exceptions. It is the besetting temptation of many natures, and honest natures too, to " Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." - ' - ' -;.;. .'. '-. '.:..' -::/. 7- '-"-.! ^ i And perhaps few sins are more " damned" upon this...

...indifferent to us, but that which is seductive; or, asHudibras more felicitously expresses, — ' Men compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.' Money had no charms for Robespierre, nor wine, nor women,— why not, then, extol his chastity and...

...difficult not to remember that men have been known to fancy that they might atone, — — for faults they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. Yet it is scarcely fair perhaps to say this, after reading the passage in which he reproaches himself,...

...with too much indulgence in the world. Thus they too, like our modern play-wrights, only make mankind Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to. With them, too, prodigality, debauchery and fornication, are not merely venial but reputable offences...

...distract, or monkey sick ; That with more care keep holy-day The wrong ", than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have a mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite : The self-same thing...

...dog distract or monkey sick; That with more care kept holiday The wrong, than others the right way ; he throne: alike in place, Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipp'd God for spite: The self-same thing they will...

...rich, in putting down the sports of the poor, preserved their own : or that they " Compound for sports they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to." They would do well to take care, that in legislating for the abolition of cruelty, they did not introduce...

...it.' We will not inquire whether the noble poet has, in the present case, been one of those, who ' Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.' And we can easily conceive that scarce any thing could have been less suited to Byron's eager and active...