...God has kindled in his soul by the unholy and accursed fumes of vice and immorality. I fervently hope that the time has for ever gone by when genius was...could appreciate and express the beautiful and true wag supposed to be at liberty to scorn all truth, all beauty, mental and moral. . . . Oh ! for a man...

...by the unholy and accursed fumes of vice and immorality. I fervently hope that the time has forever gone by when genius was considered an excuse for evil...influence on mankind may be small, but it will ever be exerted to purify, and better, and enlighten. The time has come — the day of human improvement is...

...he wrote, and his writings might even live long after he was dead. " I fervently hope," he said, " that the time has for ever gone by when genius was...influence on mankind may be small, but it will ever be exerted to purify, and better, and enlighten Is it to be borne that while the selfish, mean-souled,...

...even live long after he was dead. " I fervently hope," he said, " that the time has for ever ..-one by when genius was considered an excuse for evil —...beautiful and true was supposed to be at liberty to scom ill truth and all beauty, mental and moral. Our influence on mankind may be small, but it will...

...Edinburgh, where he died, in the house of Mrs Johnstone, and now he lies buried in North Leith churchyard.1 Robert Nicoll is not yet sufficiently known. True,...influence on mankind may be small, but it will ever be exerted to purify, and better, and enlighten. The time has come, the day of human improvement is growing...