But the counsel of the baneful goddess Cypris was working out its accomplishment, who brought upon them soul destroying infatuation.
Yea, we left him uncared for on the strand and we sailed oversea; and full well each one of us shall know ourbaneful folly, now that he is far away.
Hast thou with baneful folly sinned against the gods through thy skill in prophecy?
The banefulinfluence which has spread over the world, by believing in the existence of the Devil, is shocking to humanity.
This is encouraged and promoted by the king; yet there is no system more baneful than that of devoting so many precious days to idleness and vice, and none forming a more fatal obstacle to the amelioration of the people.
Time is uselessly wasted in importunity, which all believe must in the end prove successful; and the practice of invocation and intercession thus exerts the most baneful tendency even upon the daily dealings of life.
None of the surrounding countries would seem to be unvitiated by the baneful influence of the slave-trade; and all are sunk in the lowest and most grovelling superstition.
To see profusion that he must not share; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury, and thin mankind; To see those joys the sons of pleasure know Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.
III THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdene with the woe of these days; not wisest men assuaged his sorrow; too sore the anguish, loathly and long, that lay on his folk, most baneful of burdens and bales of the night.
Twas clear, they said, that him no blade of the brave could touch, how keen soever, or cut away that battle-hand bloody from baneful foe.
While their character remains what it now is, (and the laws and structure of the country in which they reside, prevent its permanent improvement,) this influence must of necessity be baneful and contaminating.
Do we not all regard this mixed and intermediate population of free blacks, made up of slaves or their immediate descendants, as a mighty and a growing evil, exerting a dangerous and baneful influence on all around them?
It is deemed unnecessary to repeat what has already been said, of the character of the population in question, of its hopeless degradation, and its baneful influence, in the situation in which it is now placed.
Religion, which often has a gigantic power over governments, is here blended with civil and state ceremonies, and exerts but a feeble, and usually a most baneful influence on the political destinies of the nation.
As a baneful monopolizing spirit seems to pervade this government in almost every particular, even the poor fishermen are not exempt, who labour continually in a broiling sun, or a deluge of rain, following their vocation far at sea.
Such a baneful and inextricable labyrinth of these illnesses existed that the most desolate land anywhere could not offer worse vipers and nettles.
The gentle satire of Addison and Steele, in the Spectator, confirms Swift's contemporary lamentations, as to the baneful effects of party zeal upon private friendship.
Godwin, when tracing all evils to the baneful effects of government, declares that the author of Gulliver showed a "more profound insight into the true principles of political justice than any preceding or contemporary author.
One might as well pretend that unity, cohesion, strength, grandeur, are only productive ofbaneful results.
The missionaries finding that contrary to their wishes their zeal had only served to increase the sale of the noxious juices, applied to the Governor of Canada in the year 1693, for a prohibition of this baneful trade.
He suddenly opened fully those blazing green eyes and directed their baneful glare upon Nayland Smith.
To this baneful source of exclusive political power may be traced the persecutions of fanaticism, the feuds of superstition, and most of the wars and carnage which disgrace our history.
Intemperance carries with it the destruction of its votaries, but no baneful consequences attend opium smoking.
Yet these are the persons from whom the missionaries derive their knowledge of opium smoking and its alleged baneful effects.
The petition of the undersigned Missionaries of the Gospel in China humbly sheweth: That the opium traffic is a great evil to China, and that the baneful effects of opium smoking cannot be easily overrated.
Negro slavery, a favorite measure with England, was rapidly extending its baneful influence in the colonies.
The baneful custom of enslaving Negroes had spread through every settlement in North America, and was even "tolerated in Pennsylvania under the specious pretence of the religious instruction of the slave.
Nevertheless the credulous public believed him to be the evil spirit of the Imperial circle, and every false move, every unpopular act, was ascribed to his baneful influence.
He believed it was intended to lock up every door to foreign influence, to the influence of courts and monarchies, which could not but prove baneful to every free country.
And this paper issued from a British press, spreads its baneful sentiments throughout the country.
With the catastrophe in which the wars of the French Revolution terminated, and our own subsequent peace with Great Britain, this baneful weed of party strife was uprooted.
But to myself, who am going to relate the life of a person deceased, I find pardon necessary; which I should not have asked, were I not about to revive and traverse times so sanguinary, and baneful to all virtue.
The contagion had reached every department of the state; nor was the church exempted from its baneful influence.
But Power was in the grasp of Tyranny, attended on each side by Pride and Cruelty; while Fear presented an excuse for Silence and Apathy, and left Artifice and Avarice to extend their baneful influence over society.
Without a shade of doubt the chief cause of decay and death amongst youths and young men, is to be traced to this baneful habit.
It is easily accessible, for it is cheap, and the young will procure it, and therefore become easy prey to its baneful influence and effects.
