And lastly, Des Etangs says that it is a symbol of eternal reason, whose enemies are the vices that depraveand finally destroy humanity.
And thow knowest, Conscience, I kam noght to chide Ne deprave thi persone, With a proud herte.
And now persons han perceyved That freres parte with hem, Thise possessioners preche And deprave freres.
It is an undeniable fact that each additional imprisonment only serves to deprave the habitual criminal more deeply, and to release him after the expiration of an arbitrary sentence is to let loose another parasite to prey upon society.
Crowd bad men and women together, and they corrupt and deprave each other.
It can never be employed, in any country under Heaven, to teach a toleration for cruelty, to weaken moral hatred for guilt, or to deprave and brutalize the human mind.
Most strenuous efforts are made to depravethe people; but, thank God!
Some of these periodicals are simply unadulterated "pen poison," designed not only to enrich their projectors, but to deprave the minds of those who read.
They act the counterparts of a Confucius or a Socrates, and seem to have been sent into the world to depravehuman nature, and sink it into the condition of brutality.
Let us leave them to reign, eat, drink, and be feasted, as priests and sophists of old have before them, so long as they do not deprave men!
Then, gentlemen, you should consider whether that particular course of proceeding is inconsistent with morality, whether it would have a tendency to degrade and deprave the man or woman.
Among all the people who buy and own such things there is not one in a thousand who has any real taste or feeling for them, and the objects they choose are generally such as can only deprave and degrade them further.
If my book is a romance, the fault lies with those who deprave mankind.
You say mothers spoil their children, and no doubt that is wrong, but it is worse to deprave them as you do.
Some idiotic persons here and there, and certain journals which have earned an infamous notoriety by doing their best to deprave public morals, have raised a foolish clamour against Captain Burton and his translation.
What, indeed, can tend todeprave the character more than outward submission and inward contempt?
Let men take their choice, man and woman were made for each other, though not to become one being; and if they will not improve women, they will deprave them!
She then justly and humanely adds--This has given rise to the trite and foolish observation, that the first fault against chastity in woman has a radical power to deprave the character.
I was clear beyond all that now--all those occasions for carking anxiety which deprave the worker, and make him hate the task to which whipping necessity drives him.
