A sober man, who commits occasional excesses, is more likely to suffer than another man who gets drunk every night, provided that these excesses do not differ in regard to the quantity or quality of stimulus.
He also commits many foolish things, knowing them to be foolish.
It turns out, too, that every time I acquires silver in change, I commits it to my left boot, which is high an' ample to hold said specie.
Standin' as we do on the brink of one of said eras, an' as showin' sincerity, I yereby commits to you my son Willyum.
Woe to him forsook the Great King’s house, For love of sin, sad is the deed; The sin a man commits in secret, Much is the debt his sin incurs.
And this is why heaven is closed up to man when he commits adultery from delight; and when heaven is closed man no longer acknowledges the Divine nor any thing of the faith of church.
Although he does not commit adultery, yet as he believes it to be allowable he is all the while an adulterer, since he commits adultery to the extent that he has the ability and as often as he has opportunity.
And the deep nature of the tragedy may be imagined when it is stated that Colonel Talbot is killed, Colonel Herbert is killed, Sir Charles Godfrey is killed, and Jemima commits suicide, as resolved not to survive her adorer.
However he may err, he commits no crime; how, then, can he be impeached?
The wily Köil, ere towards the sky She wings her sportive flight, commits her eggs To other nests, and artfully consigns The rearing of her little ones to strangers.
Further, just as after Baptism mancommits venial and mortal sins, so does he before Baptism.
For it seems that to make the atonement devolves on him who commits the sin; as is clear in the other parts of penance, because he who has done the wrong must grieve over it and confess it.
If, therefore, a sinner commits a sin in contempt of God and of the favor received from Him, that sin is drawn to the species of ingratitude, and in this way a sinner's ingratitude is a special sin.
Because a man is a mocker and not a penitent, who, while doing penance, does what he repents having done, or intends to do again what he did before, or even commitsactually the same or another kind of sin.
And therefore whoever hears their mass or receives the sacraments from them, commits sin.
They are'] worthy of death; not only he that commits the sin, but also he who consents to them that do them.
And in this way nevertheless the sinner who receives Christ's body commits sin, although unconscious thereof, because the very ignorance is a sin on his part.
Where Guyau commits an error is when he says that the cult of rhyme for rhyme’s sake ‘introduces into the brain even of the poet a kind of disorder and permanent chaos.
If he is cultivated and well-to-do, or in a commanding position, he commits misdemeanours peculiar to the upper classes which have as their object not the gratification of material needs, but of other kinds of craving.
Led by this firmly linked chain of causes and effects, everyone capable of logical thought will recognise that he commits a serious error if, in the æsthetic schools which have sprung up in the last few years, he sees the heralds of a new era.
A Marquise de Brinvilliers, a Troppmann, a being born without either compassion or sense of shame--can it be said of such an one that he is not himself when he commits his crime?
Nevertheless, in the interpretation of the particular phenomena in which the aberration manifests itself, he commits an error, which is explained by the fact that Dr.
The unconscious personality commits follies and evil deeds, and the conscious, standing powerless by, and unable to hinder it, seeks to palliate them by all sorts of pretexts.
The African says, "The white man tells us not to do those things which are wicked in the sight of God; yet, in the same breath, he commits the very guilt against which he warns us.
But these cases merely prove the necessity of adopting sufficiently precautionary measures, before the emigrant commits himself to a venture, upon which the happiness and interests of himself and his family altogether depend.
II When a man commits a crime, Society claps him in prison.
But in the reply really ascribed to Thrasymachus, he is made to retract what he had just before admitted--that the superior authority sometimes commits mistakes.
Side-note: Reasoning of Plato to save his doctrine--That no man commits injustice voluntarily.
When once such controul is established, a man becomes just: he no longer commits injustice.
If he acts under controul of Reason, though the Reason be bad, he is not unjust 367 Reasoning of Plato to save his doctrine--That no man commits injustice voluntarily ib.
He who upholds, or believes in, or teaches, the miraculous, commits a blunder.
No such man wants to do good; he commits the crime for his own benefit and because he wishes to gratify an insane cruelty or to gain a reputation among like savages.
One commits a crime and he is sent to the penitentiary.
So in some of the Northern prisons they have what they call the weighing machine--an infamous thing, and he who uses it commits as great a crime as the convict he punishes could have committed.
He should be punished because he commits a crime against society, and he should be punished in this world.
The writer of the letter also says that it is necessary to believe that if a mancommits murder here he is destined to be punished in hell for the offence.
On the sea-shore, the Marsh Harrier commits great depredations among young water-fowl, and is often mobbed and driven from the neighbourhood by the assembled old birds.
The folded gates would bar my progress now, But that the lord of this enclosed demesne, Communicative of the good he owns, Admits me to a share: the guiltless eye Commits no wrong, nor wastes what it enjoys.
He commits the great faux pas, however, of ignoring all the post-reformation theology of the Catholic Church, and speaking as if theological science were confined to Protestants.
In the latter sin the guilty one commits only a half-offence, because his daughter is not born solely of his substance, but also of the flesh of another.
And Gilles suddenly commits an inexplicable crime which permits the Bishop to march forthwith upon him and smite him.
He commits his bride to her mother, saying, Keep her for me seven years; and if I do not then come back, give her to whom you please.
One of the bachelors of the household, when returning from hawking, commits a rape, for which he is condemned to death.
He commits himself to no definite esthetic system, thus suggesting his affinities to the French impressionists and to that Jules Lemaître whom he so much admired.
Her punishment, as described by Lady Munster, is extremely severe; and when she finally commits suicide, maddened by the imprisonment to which her husband had subjected her, it is difficult not to feel a good deal of pity for her.
The usurper, terrified at the tidings, and deserted by his soldiers, commits suicide, and Alexis enters Moscow in triumph, and is crowned in the Kremlin.
To begin with, Mr. Rossetti commits the great mistake of separating the man from the artist.
He is illustrative of the certain doom which awaits the man who commits himself to the sole guidance of his doubts.
It thus commits itself to the position that all history takes place by force of necessity.
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