Ragna, on the contrary, could not be satisfied with what was merely pleasing; she was both conscientious and thorough and consequently had less to show for her labours than her friend.
Still somebody must suffer, and after all it was Valentini's fault and not his as he was ready to accept the child as part of the burden he assumed, and do his conscientiousbest by it.
In this way the Assembly aroused the active hostility of a great part of the most conscientious among the lower clergy, who had loyally supported the commons in their fight against the privileged orders.
Machiavelli concludes that the Italian princes who have not observed their engagements over-scrupulously, and who have boldly put their political adversaries out of the way, have fared better than their more conscientious rivals.
If he were a conscientious prelate, he traveled about his diocese visiting the parish churches and the monasteries to see if the priests did their duty and the monks behaved themselves properly.
Louis Bonaparte, the father of Napoleon III, and the most conscientious of the Bonaparte family, had been so harassed by his imperial brother that he had abdicated as king of Holland.
These are not the insolent claims of a reckless tyrant, but the expression of a theory of government which has had advocates among some of the most conscientious and learned men of all succeeding ages.
Gregory VI, more conscientious than his rivals, not only resigned his office but tore his pontifical robes in pieces and admitted his monstrous crime in buying the papal dignity, though his motives had been of the purest.
Consequently, when he was put in charge of the nation's finances, it seemed as if he and the conscientious young king might find some remedy for the long-standing abuses.
Yet all conscientious men agreed with the Waldensians that the world was in a sad plight owing to the negligence and the misdeeds of the clergy.
The confessions of St. Augustine are a classical warning of the untrustworthiness of even the most conscientious memory.
Being probably a conscientious man, and knowing his utter ignorance of the duties that his position demanded of him, what was he to do?
And then, again, there is that very awkward and puzzling question, that so troubles some of his more conscientious brethren as well as himself, that of punishment for gambling.
What sort of a chain this links around the strictly conscientious I would attempt to portray, if I could.
No; you let the physicians alone; you do not abuse them in their arduous and conscientious duties.
And a conscientious mind will learn the practical lesson of exercising the most careful self-examination in reference to its doubts, and especially will use the utmost caution not to communicate them needlessly to others.
I can not too urgently recommend to Congress that prompt and liberal provision be made for the conscientious fulfillment of all engagements entered into by the Government with the Indian tribes.
Such a critique belongs especially to the fundamental nature of the Enlightenment, to the proud self-confidence of which a conscientious self-examination forms a necessary antithesis.
And Mademoiselle de Montalais is by no means a very conscientious garrison," said he to himself, sighing aloud.
Yet the archæologists of that future age, or the cosmographers of that other part of the heavens, after conscientious study of our Shakespearian autobiography, would misconceive our life in one important respect.
In our day, with our wide and conscientious historical sympathies, it may be possible for us to find in other rites and doctrines than those of our ancestors an expression of some ultimate truth.
Blodgett was a veryconscientious man in the performance of his sacerdotal functions, so he read the funeral service over each class as it disappeared.
So believed thisconscientious lawyer, who realized, however, that here his duty began rather than ended.
A lawyer conscientious to such a degree toward his partners would hardly be less so in the treatment of his clients.
This conscientious young postmaster may therefore be credited with having anticipated by more than sixty years a now highly esteemed branch of the postal service.
In the same conscientious spirit more important opportunities for employment, holding forth prospects of generous fees, were turned away from Lincoln’s door.
To which Mr. Herndon adds the significant comment: “I venture the assertion that he was the only member of the bar in Springfield who would have taken such a conscientious view of the matter.
With one or the other of these conscientious women at his side, Abraham Lincoln reached maturity.
The sameconscientious spirit so manifestly entered into the doing of the work itself that he soon gained the confidence of those who employed him.
Stephens, held equally conscientious opinions as to what constitutes a lawyer’s duty.
The conscientious tutor would not hear of this reason: "it was based on the false assumption that the Christians are the enemies of the Jews.
But St. Bartholomew had also itsconscientious advocates.
Their fatal verdict is, I am sure, as conscientious as God and myself know it to be erroneous--false!
I may be wrong, Miss Rivers; a man can but act according to his conscientious convictions.
After overcoming his own doubts in the matter; after disposing of his first conscientious scruples; after making up his mind to go through with this for my sake, and being so faithful about it.
Nowhere outside of India had I seen such conscientious devotion to the dancer's work.
The remainder of the stock arguments against utilitarianism mostly consist in laying to its charge the common infirmities of human nature, and the general difficulties which embarrass conscientious persons in shaping their course through life.
These are the real difficulties, the knotty points both in the theory of ethics, and in the conscientious guidance of personal conduct.
We may answer, the same as of all other moral standards--the conscientious feelings of mankind.
Those whose conscientious feelings are so weak as to allow of their asking this question, if they answer it affirmatively, will not do so because they believe in the transcendental theory, but because of the external sanctions.
To the Puritan all beauty that hand of man could create was of the devil, and thus we represent a consecrated ugliness, any departure from which is even now, by some conscientious souls, regarded with suspicion.
Her style is robust, orderly, precise, every page carrying the evidence of trained thought and of careful, conscientious research.
An' Leander was conscientious an' thought he ought to stay by.
Family life cannot always move in fixed lines, and hours must often vary; but conscientious tally could be kept, and over-hours receive the pay they have earned.
In 1666, when he was two and twenty, he made acquaintance with the inside of a jail on account of his conscientious perversities; but the only effect of the experience was to make him perceive that he had thereby become "his own freeman.
But although they were conscientious in adopting every measure that could honorably be employed to induce England to reconsider her behavior, they had little hope of a favorable issue.
None would have been less likely than Washington himself to foretell his own greatness; but when others believed in him he was compelled by his religious and conscientious nature to act up to their belief.
In all codes of law, perpetual banishment is regarded as one of the severest punishments; and the caprice of one man inflicts in France, as an amusement, what conscientious judges only condemn criminals to with regret.
They were moved by conscientious belief in the Catholic faith, Henry by conscientious belief in himself; and conscientious scruples are none the less exigent for being reached by crooked paths.
But when we come upon a passage like the sinking of the "Ourque" in this romance, we can do nothing but cover our face with our hands: the conscientious reader feels a sort of disgrace in the very reading.
