We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two great commandments were to h…

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet …