Butter for sale must not be corruptand be properly weighed.
When numerous Anabaptists came from the continent to live in the port towns, the Queen issued a proclamation ordering them to leave the realm because their pernicious opinions couldcorrupt the church.
Because the church's administration was inefficient and corrupt and its punishments inadequate, they gradually lost their power to the common law justices and Justices of the Peace.
In a word, they only needed the money power to corrupt and to be corrupted.
A provision of that kind, in his opinion, would rather tend to corrupt than to benefit the Protestant clergy of Canada.
Its ultimate effect was to render the Church completely depend upon the State, and to change and corrupt its very source with the varying vices of libertine despots.
Our corrupt o-yes of the crier, is the French imperative, oyez, hear, listen.
Will the honest forever be so passive, while the corrupt and dishonest continue so active?
The spirit of the institutions is their intention; their tendencies are the natural direction they take under the impulses of human motives, which are always corrupt and corrupting.
Was, then, the State really so corruptas to lend itself to projects as base as those openly maintained by the anti-renters?
Our objects are the restoration of equal rights and the prostration of those aristocratical usurpations existing in the state of monopolies and exclusive privileges of every kind, the products of corrupt and corrupting legislation.
It is the same word which, unfortunately in a corrupt form, is used to-day among several European nations to designate the highest grade in the naval service.
The Devil sows into the Church his children: a corrupt profession of Jesus Christ.
The lion in corrupt politics, in evil traffics, in priestly bigotry and intolerance, will not hesitate to stab, shoot, or burn to get rid of an offensive opposer.
Pretty good, this, for a man who was the terror of the East, and who was publicly branded in Parliament as the most audacious, corrupt and cruel tyrant that ever seized anything that armed force could lay its hands upon.
But the American must understand that England is not a free country; that the corrupt and vicious nobility of England wanted ground upon which they could commit piracy, and that they had the entire power of the British government behind it.
That the third is corrupt must be allowed, but it gives reason to suspect that the original was, Doth grosly close it in.
The fashion of travelling, which prevailed very much in our author's time, was considered by the wiser men as one of the principal causes of corrupt manners.
There seems yet something wanting to the integrity of this passage, which Mr. Theobald has in the most corrupt and difficult places very happily restored.
Sloane had been drinking consecutively and was in a state of unsteady exhilaration, but Amory was quite tiresomely sober; they had run across none of those ancient, corrupt buyers of champagne who usually assisted their New York parties.
It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor.
There are times when I think of the men out there as Roman legionaries, miles from their corrupt city, stemming back the hordes.
In politics, too, it is remarked that party organizations have no power in this State from the moment that they attempt to nominate corrupt or time-serving men.
The people break loose from their caucuses and conventions, and vote in a body for their honest enemies, rather than for corrupt friends.
If any outside corrupt influences seek to creep in, they are easy of detection and the punishment can be made swift and certain.
Either make the tree good and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
Capet found Means to corrupt this Man by great Gifts and Promises, and to induce him to betray both the Town and the King into his Hands; which was accordingly done.
The corrupt deputy had informed Carey where the loss of school land would occur.
If he should find himself opposed by a corrupt judge who should rule against him, he would not be daunted.
The land ring, of course, knew this, and by their corrupt influence had so maneuvered to hoodwink the General Land Office that the valley had been withdrawn from entry.
At the outset, I strongly suspected that the corrupt influence, which presumably had been exposed and punished in former investigations, was nevertheless still at work.
A man can hope till he's licked, at least, and despite the fact that I have neither money nor corrupt influence, I have a long chance to win.
I have seen him arraigned before the courts of his country, and seen him honorably acquitted, and delivered from the pernicious breath of slander, and the machinations and falsehoods of wicked and corrupt men.
It does not entitle the Moslem to be called Hájj (pilgrim) or Hájí as Persians and Indians corrupt the word.
To plead the cause of the poor and weak against their powerful oppressors, and to protest in the name of religion against the pride and corrupt life of its ministers, was the object of the monk of Malvern Abbey; and he did his work well.
Years afterwards, Wycliffe dealt mighty blows at the corrupt and debased clergy, and Chaucer pierced them with his sharp satire, but neither surpassed their predecessor in the vigor and spirit of his onslaughts.
This, it has been said, would constitute the senators their own judges, in every case of a corrupt or perfidious execution of that trust.
If foreign gold could so easily corrupt our federal rulers and enable them to ensnare and betray their constituents, how has it happened that we are at this time a free and independent nation?
They can neither weaken his fortitude by operating on his necessities, nor corrupt his integrity by appealing to his avarice.
It has been found to exist in the most corrupt periods of the most corrupt governments.
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.
As those five evil counsellors were among the last English statesmen who seriously thought of destroying the Parliament, so they were the first English statesmen who attempted extensively to corrupt it.
Scarcely any rank or profession escaped the infection of the prevailing immorality; but those persons who made politics their business were perhaps the most corrupt part of the corrupt society.
He was greedy of wealth and honours, corrupt himself, and a corrupter of others.
Locke's prudence had, however, been such that it would have been to little purpose to bring him even before the corrupt and partial tribunals of that age.
Neither House had before it anything which even so corrupt a judge as Jeffreys could have directed a jury to consider as proof of Monmouth's crime.
Corrupt as the Church of Rome was, there is reason to believe that, if that Church had been overthrown in the twelfth or even in the fourteenth century, the vacant space would have been occupied by some system more corrupt still.
No Admiral, bearded by these corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
