The vague phrases of depraving manners and applying revolutionary principles perfidiously, were exactly calculated to smite the band of violent men whose conduct was to Robespierre the scandal of the Revolution.
The Punishment of any other Person depraving it, and of such who shall hear or be present at any other form.
The Punishment of a Minister for refusing to use or depraving the Book of Common Prayer.
Depraving or doing any Thing in contempt of the Sacrament must be committed.
What an instrument for depraving the whole man may be found in the matchless powers of the brain, the hand, the ear, the mouth, or the tongue!
What an instrument for depraving the whole man may be found in the matchless powers of the brain, the hand, the mouth, or the tongue!
The reactionary outburst of fanaticism for which the humiliation of the Jesuits was a signal, only showed how well founded the Voltairean allegations as to the depraving effects of the existing system of religion had really been.
One girl might receive from a book a hundred evil suggestions, hopelessly depraving her imagination, while upon another it might not leave a single evil trace.
Tolstoy made the mistake of confusing two matters, both of which he took deeply to heart: the depravingpower of music, and the depraving power of love.
And what is marvelous to think of, the larger part of these persons are actually licensed by the State to get gain by hurting, depraving and destroying the people.
Better to devote one's self to a useful and humble profession than employ one's talent in depraving morals, and degrading souls.
In addition to these facilities for a life of sensual enjoyment, the teaching of the Prophet in reference to female slaves has had a most depraving effect on family life.
Just as if a problem had been set to find the best, the surest means of depraving the greatest number of persons," thought Nekhludoff, while investigating the deeds that were being done in the prisons and halting stations.
Articles settles the canon of the Old and New Testaments, and that anyone daring to exclude from belief anything in this canon might be convicted of depraving the Prayer Book.
The facility of divorce has depraving effects, upon both sexes.
Let those who have ears to hear, and eyes to see, understand, by this fact, that Pagan nations have not known any institution so depraving as Auricular Confession!
D, that it bears marks throughout of the depravinginfluence of the ancient Lectionary practice.
Further, it is evident that both alike have been subjected, probably during the process of transcription, to the same depraving influences.
The capitalists were no doubt good and bad, like other people, but probably stood up as well as any people could against the depraving influences of a system which in fifty years would have turned heaven itself into hell.
Here, to my great delight, Aristides spoke up: "If the American practice were half as depraving as it ought logically to be in their conditions, their social system would drop to pieces.
I sought to make her conceive of our nation as a family, where every one was secured against want by the common provision, and against the degrading and depraving inequality which comes from want.
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