Quotes from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg ·  258 pages

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“With regard to the work itself, I dare not venture a judgment, for I do not understand it.”
― James Hogg, quote from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner


“…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.”
― James Hogg, quote from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner


“We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.”
― James Hogg, quote from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner


“By that time he had pushed the bottle so long and so freely, that its fumes had taken possession of every brain to such a degree, that they held Dame Reason rather at the staff's end, overbearing all her counsels and expostulations.”
― James Hogg, quote from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner


About the author

James Hogg
Born place: in Ettrickhall, Scotland
Born date January 1, 1770
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