Is the spirit of the Lord there, where liberty isdecried and denounced, mocked at and spit upon, betrayed and crucified!
Garrick, though he had decried that school, and had brought out his comedy of The Clandestine Marriage in opposition to it, now lauded False Delicacy to the skies, and prepared to bring it out at Drury Lane with all possible stage effect.
I once heard a conversation in which the Roman Catholic Religion was decried on account of its abuses.
And if ever you do get a scoundrel by the collar, he sets up such a howl that you have to let him go in a hurry, or be decried as a usurer and a monster.
Israel's laws and form of government were as odious and decried among the pagans as the hostility to that people was fierce and implacable.
After the reign of Constantine the Great, Julian wrote a large volume against the Christians, and Himerius and Libanius in their public declamations, and Eunapius in his lives of the philosophers, zealously decried the Christian religion.
Outside of some parts of the Low Countries, and oddly enough of the Turkish Empire, all the world worth counting decried toleration as a great crime.
The typical person held up to derision by Ali Baba has been oft times decried as one very detrimental to good government in India, where a personal and absolute rule must needs obtain for some time to come.
This possibility is rightly to be decried if it be assumed that ideal education of the present material or anything like it would realise perfection.
In 1860 the government determined to repeal the paper duties, which hindered the publication of cheap newspapers, and were decried as a tax on knowledge.
Hitherto he had decried Sir Stafford Northcote and praised Lord Salisbury, but he now embarked upon an adventure that brought him into sharp conflict with the latter.
Another result of party government that is constantly decried is the waste of capacity it involves.
He is decried by the Democrats because he is a Republican, and by the anti-abolitionists because he is an Abolitionist; but he is not decried because he has shown himself to be dishonest in the service of his government.
But this scapegrace suitor withdrew his pretensions in order to gratify, it is said, the handsome though decried Duchess de Montbazon, who had enthralled him in her flowery chains as a led-captain.
There is no evidence to show that the slightest damage was done, or attempted to be done, to property on the part of the strikers.
In relation to that decried measure the message said: "Of my own duties under the existing laws, when the banks suspended specie payments, I could not doubt.
Satisfied with them, he must be satisfied with him; for the difference is as fifteen to one in favor of the decried general.
His country did not appreciate his deeds as highly as they deserved, and certain cliques in England decried his labours and aspersed his motives.
As science was injurious to the establishment of his empire he decried it.
The latter, as we know, decried the mystical conception of fixed symbolism in any domain.
I think that it will soon be said of psychoanalysis, as of so many other systems which like it were decried and yet later were highly valued, that the enemies of to-day are the friends of to-morrow.
This was decried by the classicists, and even Gros called it "the massacre of art.
Some wished them for instruction in the Word; others decried them as leading to idolatry.
It was then so indifferent to me to be decried of everybody, even of the greatest saints, that it added but little to my pain.
He decried me wherever he went, and wrote to his brethren to do the same.
It was more confidently decried than his present irrigation system.
The taste for speculation was worse than the taste for French fashions, which was decried by Lord Chesterfield.
Stage-acting was decried as a calling to which only the debased would resort, and there were plentiful exhortations to those who valued their soul’s welfare to abstain from looking upon corrupting sights.
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