...Commodus, to correct his growing vices, and to render him worthy of the throne, for which he was designed. But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy,...happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. The distasteful lesson of a grave philosopher was, in a moment, obliterated by the whisper of a profligate...

...present, confined in the isle of Capreae, but she was, * " The power of instruction," observes Gibbon, " is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous." ere long, put to death ; and a similar fate soon befell her rival, Crispina, on account of adultery....

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...Herodian, the Augustan History, and the Epitomators. t " The power of instruction," observes Gibbon, " is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous." his own person given his son an example of all the virtues, and had surrounded him with the ablest...

...Commodus, to correct his growing vices, and to render him worthy of the throne for which he was designed. But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy,...happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. The distasteful lesson of a grave philosopher was, in a moment, obliterated by the whisper of a profligate...

...forming his character, is not by any means so certain. It has been well observed by Gibbon, that " the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is superfluous." Washington, we apprehend, would have been no less Washington, had Sir Matthew Halo never...

...forming his character, is not by any means so certain. It has been well observed by Gibbon, that " the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is superfluous." Washington, we apprehend, would have been no less Washington, had Sir Matthew Hale never...

...forming his character, is not by any means so certain. It has been well observed by Gibbon, that " the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is superfluous." Washington, we apprehend, would have been no less Washington, had Sir Matthew Hale never...

...tendency of sound knowledge, good science, and pure art, it must be acknowledged, as Gibbon has said, that "the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy,...happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous;" and as it is with the individual, who is good only according as he is pious, so is it with the nation....

...Commodus, to correct his growing vices, and -to .render him worthy of the throne for which he was designed. But the power of instruction is seldom of much-. efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost'superfluous. The distasteful lesson of a grave philosopher was, in a moment, obliterated by...