The declamations of the English priest do not approach in vehemence those of the priest of Champagne.
All such declamations tend just to prove this--that a robber ought not to eat the dinner he has taken, nor wear the habit he has stolen, nor ornament his finger with the ring he has plundered from another.
We are too much accustomed to such declamationsin our own time not to recognise an ordinary trick of satirists and declaimers.
Ten years remained to him, and he spent them in the industrious acquisition of new knowledge, in the composition of a host of fragmentary pieces, some of them mentioned above, and in luminous declamations with his friends.
The prophets are full of declamations and invectives against the general corruption of their times, and against the particular manners of some persons in them.
The declamations of these Promethean rebels make it clear, however, that their protest is but the old fault of condemning a necessary institution altogether for its imperfections or its abuses.
Carlyle's declamations against happiness are too scattered and unsystematic to make reference to specific chapters useful.
To leave off vague and easy declamations against luxury and the decay of morals, and to fix on the great truth that bad education is responsible for bad life, was the first step towards a real reform.
Those numberless productions with which the press then abounded; the cant of the pulpit, the declamations of party, the subtilties of theology, all these have long ago sunk in silence and oblivion.
They excited afresh their preachers to furious declamationsagainst the royal cause.
The altercation of discourse, the controversies of the pen, but above all the declamations of the pulpit, indisposed the minds of men towards each other, and propagated the blind rage of party.
Next Sunday, after the bill passed the commons, the Puritanical pulpits resounded with declamations concerning the necessity of executing justice upon great delinquents.
They ought not to have wandered into inflammatory declamations and unmeaning cavils about the extent of the powers.
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The misfortunes of Spain may be described in the language of its most eloquent historian, who has concisely expressed the passionate, and perhaps exaggerated, declamations of contemporary writers.
Aurelius, the sophist, composed his best declamations in his cups.
Besides all this, they made every Friday sermons stuffed full of declamations against those who should drink it.
Shut your ears against those absurd declamations which proceed from ignorance and presumption, which, under pretence of insuring future prosperity, blow the flame of present discord.
Books and journals have been filled with declamations against society.
Such declamations are calculated only to light up and keep alive the hatred of classes.
Socialist works, nevertheless, are crammed with declamations against the rich.
This shows us how empty are the declamations which we hear continually directed against the value of landed property.
The books conceived and written on this plan are, and can only be, prolix declamations against Society.
One Francis Higgins had been haranguing on the same topics in the pulpits all over the metropolis, with the most outrageous declamations on the dangers of the Church.
His declamations were of different kinds; sometimes brilliant and polished, at others, that they might not be thought to savour too much of the schools, he curtailed them of all ornament, and used only familiar phrases.
General discussions of truth and probability, with magnificent declamations on the to kalon, and the summum bonum, constituted the chief objects of attention amongst those who cultivated moral science in the shades of academical retirement.
The debates, compositions and declamations interested me less, and I should have been quite dull except for some young girls at the Oread Institute.
At length these declamations became too ridiculous to be repeated.
This impetuous quack filled the university with stupid and violent declamations against literature, against the innovations of the age, and against all those who were not, in his opinion, sufficiently earnest in repressing them.
The declamations were obtained principally from a book called "The Kentucky Preceptor," which volume Mrs. Crawford gave me as a souvenir of my visit.
The exercises consisted of the varieties offered at this day at the average seminary or school--declamations and dialogues or debates.
The speeches now delivered were chiefly declamations upon unimportant themes.
The futility of such declamations is sufficiently shown by the simple fact that the superiority of that army in the field remained as decided as ever.
Some time in the Long Vacation the names of the Prizemen for Declamations were published: I was disappointed that not one, English or Latin, was assigned to me: but it was foolish, for my declamations were rather trumpery.
But it is here taken for the Wolf, or Presbyterian clergy, whose violent declamations against the church of Rome filled up many sermons.
In short, Burnet assures us, that the royal bed-chamber and drawing-room were as full of stories to the prejudice of the clergy, as they used formerly to abound with declamations against the fanatics.
Many paragraphs of the declamationscirculated through Germany with the plans, are transcribed verbatim from Weishaupt's Corrected system of Illuminatism.
But I still think the caution equally necessary, which I recommended to the hearers of the frequent and violent declamations made by those alluded to, against all religious establishments.
Young men, warmed by declamations teeming with the flimsy moral cant of Cosmo-politism, are in the proper frame of mind for this Illumination.
We may also gather from what we have seen that all declamations on universal philanthropy are dangerous.
Such declamations naturally tend to cause men to make light of the obligations and duties of common patriotism, because these are represented as subordinate and inferior to the greater and more noble affection of universal benevolence.
Equally ineffective are the declamations of Cosmo-politism on a mind filled with selfish passions;--they just serve it for a subterfuge.
I have given the substance of this and of all the Cosmo-political declamations already in the panegeric introduction to the account of the process of education.
It shews in a strong light the falsity of all his declamations in favour of his so much praised natural religion and universal kindness and humanity.
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