To point to any incident of that depravation as something to justify Shelley in 'leaving her to slide' into deeper guilt, would be an extravagance of injustice to the poor girl.
If these vices and the depravation of mind do actually exist, it is a proof of a gradual corruption; for there was a time when they did not exist.
Nowhere else was the influence and power of the clergy so wide-spread and deeply rooted, nowhere else has the depravation of Catholicism reached such a depth of superstition, obscurantism, and fanaticism.
There now arose, amid all this depravation of taste, a noble musician, who, like the good householder, could bring out of his treasure things new and old.
Footnote 27: On the depravation of Roman society see UNGER, Die Ehe, 80 ff.
For the extension of the ways of thinking which are proper in politics, to other than political matter, means at the same time the depravation of the political sense itself.
This impoverishment of aims and depravation of principles by the triumph of the political spirit outside of its proper sphere, cannot unfortunately be restricted to any one set of people in the state.
The immediate cause of the decline of a society in the order of morals is a decline in the quantity of its conscience, a deadening of its moral sensitiveness, and not a depravation of its theoretical ethics.
The ideas of the heroic age would have admitted no such depravation of marriage.
But the present exhibits in a striking and instructive way all the characteristic tokens of a depravation of the text.
An instructive specimen of depravation follows, which can be traced to Marcion's mutilated recension of S.
It is, however, the systematic depravation of the underlying Greek which does so grievously offend me: for this is nothing else but a poisoning of the River of Life at its sacred source.
Could the same be said of a cheap edition of the work of the Revisionists,--destitute of headings to the Chapters, and containing no record of the extent to which the Sacred Text has undergone depravation throughout?
It is a voluptuous excess in drink to the depravation of reason.
And if use and health make so great alteration, we have cause to think that the depravation of nature by the fall did more.
Gulosity is the general nature of it: excess is the matter: depravation of reason is its special form.
It is the natural inclination of one deeply moved by a spectacle of depravation in his own time and country, to extol some other time or country, of which he is happily ignorant enough not to know the drawbacks.
The slow depravation of the affective life was hastened by solitude, by sensuous expansion, by the long musings of literary composition.
Indeed, even when our LORD is not the speaker, such licentious depravation of the text is not to be endured.
But note, that through error in the copies, or else through inadvertence in the Editor, the depravation commented on at p.
One such extraordinary depravationof the Text, in which they also stand alone among MSS.
Can we be warranted (I would respectfully inquire) in inventing facts in the history of an Apostle’s practice, in order to account for what seems to be after all only an ordinary depravation of his text?
The Text of our five oldest Uncials proved, by an induction of instances, to have suffered depravation throughout by the operation of the ancient Lectionary system of the Church (p.
The text of Eusebius seems to have experienced some disarrangement and depravation here.
One of the chief abuses of their system was their depravation of sacrifice.
The incident will illustrate the greed of the priesthood and the depravation of sacrifice.
This is put forward as the worst scheme of all: as the greatest depravation of society, and the greatest forfeiture of public as well as private happiness.
Intelligence asserted its superiority over brute force, and in this century the supremacy of the Church received its accomplishment in spite of the depravation of its principles.
It was an insurrection of all the manly elements of society against the indescribable depravation of the inhabitants of the Peninsula.
These were evidently three--the ineradicable barbarity and selfishness of the Roman character, the depravation of manners in the capital, and the want of some combining influence to bind all the parts of the various empire into a whole.
Reclamations were made, more in sorrow than in anger, against the universal depravation of morals and beliefs.
There are those who hold that Louvet's Faublas is to this day a powerful agent in the depravation of the youth of France.
A disposition to live by petty depredations upon society, instead of by honest industry, and a general depravation of morals, are characteristic of the caste.
Scherr[409] says that fashion served as a means to transfer to Germany the depravation of morals which had corrupted the Latin nations in the sixteenth century.
This deep depravationof all social interests by the elevation of success to a motive which justified itself has the character of an experiment.
For I must remark to you, that it has long been much on the decline, and that our only hope of its revival will consist in your being thoroughly sensible of its depravation and decay.
