The corruption system in Russia is old, organized, and respectable.

Cobbett himself gained nothing by this resurrectionist performance, except an additional couplet in the party-songs of the day: "Let Cobbett of borough-corruption complain, And go to the De'il with the bones of Tom Paine.

I know that thy once lovely form, Now feeds the cruel coffin worm, And that corruption doth deform All traces of my brother, I know that life will swiftly glide, That death's bark floats upon the tide, And soon will lay me by your side, My dear buried brother.

They had diverted from their legitimate use revenues which ought to have been applied for the public advantage, wasting them in many instances for the benefit of individuals; sometimes even employing for purposes of corruption funds originally intended for charitable uses."

In this is a greate masse of wealthe included, All that the bawde hath by corruption gott In many a thrifty yeare.

[Footnote 1: The chief combatant in the conflict over the argument from prophecy, which was called forth by Whiston's corruption hypothesis, was Collins (A Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion, 1724).

The harem of the Turk Enfolds Haripsime's fresh maidenhood, And there where danger and corruption lurk, Where Shitan's nameless and befouling brood Surround each Georgian and Armenian pearl, She weeps and weeps, shunning the shallow joys Of trinkets, robes, of music, or the whirl Of joyous dance, of singing girls and boys, And murmurs always in a sobbing prayer, "Shall never help be sent?

This inward corruption manifests itself in outward actions.

Can the standards of society in its present corruption measure and pass upon the revelations of so white-souled a man?" "I believe he was not white-souled," she replied, in a kind, animated way, as one who was bent upon saving him from error.

It will but skin and filme the Vlcerous place, Whil'st ranke Corruption mining all within, [Sidenote: whiles] Infects vnseene, Confesse your selfe to Heauen, Repent what's past, auoyd what is to come, And do not spred the Compost or the Weedes, [Sidenote: compost on the] To make them ranke.

THE JACKALL, LEOPARD, AND OTHER BEASTS TO A MODERN POLITICIAN. I grant corruption sways mankind; That interest too perverts the mind; That bribes have blinded common sense, Foiled reason, truth, and eloquence: I grant you too, our present crimes Can equal those of former times.

" "Don't be a fool, Hooker," said Evans, "Let that mass of corruption bide.

Monogamy, the great conservator of moral purity, was disregarded, and one corruption viler than another followed in rapid succession.