Corrupt it might be, and indeed was, to even a fearful degree; but it was thecorruption of the hard and the daring, rather than of the weak and effeminate.
It is quite erroneously called Late-wake, though Brand favours that modern corruption and derivation.
Intrigue and corruption are the natural defects of elective government; but when the head of the state can be re-elected, these evils rise to a great height, and compromise the very existence of the country.
In the former case the feeble resources of an individual are in action; in the latter, the state itself, with all its immense influence, is busied in the work of corruption and cabal.
The corruption of men who have casually risen to power has a coarse and vulgar infection in it, which renders it contagious to the multitude.
Corruption and incapacity do not act as common interests, which may connect men permanently with one another.
What corruptionin this life that it will let this man live!
No doubt a corruption of "erne," a name which is still given to the sea eagle (Aquila albicilla).
It was sometimes called arquebuse de calibre, and was in fact an arquebus of specified bore, having derived its name from the corruption of calibre into caliver.
Arondell," no doubt the old French, or a corruption of "Hirondelle.
Here stanniel is a corruptionof standgale, a name for the kestrel hawk, and Malvolio is said to "check at" the letter, just as a kestrel hovers over a mouse or other object which has suddenly attracted its attention.
Calvert established himself at Ferryland--the name being a corruption of Verulam, so called after the great Chancellor--and stayed only long enough to infuse a tenacious Roman Catholic strain into the island.
Whatever has been the ignorance or knowledge, whatever the corruption or integrity of the ministry, this bill is equally useful, equally necessary.
By the posts of the army the senate may be corrupted, and by the corruption of the senate the army be perpetuated.
And, sir, I am not entirely satisfied of the impartiality and equity with which it is promised that this law will be put in execution, or what new influence is to cooperate with this law, by which corruption and oppression will be prevented.
The young king drew his sword and rushed madly on the Justiciar, charging him with treason and corruption by the gold of France.
The threat secured Suffolk's removal; he was impeached for corruption and maladministration, and condemned to forfeiture and imprisonment.
Complaint of a general corruption of manners; or, The promise and signs of Christ's coming to judgment.
Literature and morals went hand in hand as corruptionaccomplished its work.
The speech which the orator was to have made at the trial was subsequently published by Cicero, and is one of the most eloquent tirades against public corruption ever composed or uttered.
He attempted a vigorous reform, but the current of corruption could only be stemmed for awhile.
Corruption itself is an activity, and evil is ever growing.
But the truth of his heart was above the corruption of ill examples: And therefore the sight of them rather confirm'd him in the contrary Virtues.
This has been explained by Sir Bertram Windle as a corruption of St. Peter ad Vincula.
The name is a corruption of Gunnora, spouse of one of the Delameres who were lords hereabouts in the early thirteenth century.
It is not an illiterate corruption but a true dialect with its own grammatical rules.
It was the period when our eighteenth century, disgusted with the corruption of the court of Louis XV.
In the correspondence of these two men can be traced the corruption which gradually seized and overwhelmed rulers and ruled in the Roman empire on the inclined plane of a rapidly spreading super-civilization.
Disorders among the clergy, a general corruption of morals, the schism of Luther, and the excesses of Calvin conspired to make a general council the obvious and only remedy that could be applied.
England, all the corruption at court notwithstanding, was full of religious enthusiasts.
Need we say this is the Virginia persimmon--a corruption of the "putchamin" of the Indian?
It is a greatcorruption fund for bribery and for bribery only.
An administration placed in power by Northern votes has brought to bear all the resources of executive corruption in its support.
A firm believer himself that "corruption wins not more than honesty," he gave durable lessons on that theme in every bureau of the Interior Department.
The Chamber of Commerce formed a Committee of Fifteen which soon furnished evidence without stint of the corruption that was abroad.
The enemy was the deadly official inertia that was the outcome of political corruption born of the slum plus the indifference of the mass of our citizens, who probably had never seen the Bend.
Florence and aroused the whole city by his denunciations of ecclesiastical corruption and also of that of the Florentines.
At the time of the agitation against simony and the corruption of the clergy, the head of the movement in Florence was San Giovanni Gualberto, of the monastery of San Salvi.
Jesus: supposed by some to be a corruption of the letters I.
Mr. Riis as perhaps a corruptionof Puto, Porto, Portugal.
There were actually many dead just beneath the surface and, as the ground was ploughed up, the smell of corruption became distinctly unpleasant.
Incidentally, it is really time that persons with plain, sound judgment should cease to talk about corruption in politics in a boarding-school tone.
Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities.
