The doors of the church in which the interview took place were securely bolted, so that no lay ear might learn the full extent of the depravity of the ministers of the Gospel.
The innate love of family life and genial association, which the Germans have in common with Jews, preserved them from that moral depravity to which the Romance nations had already succumbed.
Total depravity throwing its dark mantle over tender infancy--parent of the doctrine of infant damnation--is no longer taught or believed by enlightened clergymen and their followers.
All novelists combine in painting the depravity of the religious houses as a patent fact in social life.
The depravity of less cultivated races remained unnoticed because no one took the trouble to describe mere barbarism.
In a word Lodovico, in spite of his boasted prudence, wrought the ruin of Italy and himself by his tortuous policy, and contributed by his private crimes and dissolute style of living no little to the general depravity of his country.
The court of Spain under Ferdinand the Catholic was a perfect school of perfidy, where even an Italian might discern deeper reaches of human depravity and formulate for his own guidance a philosophy of despair.
I do not justify Olivia for having chosen such comforters as certain novels, but I pity her, and impute this choice to want of fortitude, not to depravity of taste.
In Transbaikalia I tried to form the order of Military Buddhists for an uncompromising fight against the depravity of revolution.
Only then did I fully realize what depravity Bolshevism had brought into the world, crushing out faith, fear of God and conscience.
They are spirits of darkness, with a moral depravity which would do no discredit to any locality ever dreamed of in a vision of hell itself.
If all be an imposture, who can measure the depth of that depravity which trifles thus with the holiest affections, aspirations, and sorrows?
It is possible that the passage may be only meant as a rhetorical figure to express the atrocious depravity of Sodom and Gomorrah.
We have all seen Father Poisson, a Cordelier of Paris, who impoverished his convent to pay his mistresses, and who was imprisoned in consequence of the depravity of his manners.
John, the disciple whom Jesus loved, also bears testimony to the existence of anti-Christs, false prophets, and the depravity of many in the early Church.
I gave him sixpence, cursing inwardly this my concession to pure timorousness, and the bestial mask of depravity vanished with a grin.
Fear soon engenders corruption, and subjects are speedily tainted by the depravity of their masters.
But the depravity which had long been increasing in Italy, gained in this first part of the sixteenth century a zenith which it could not surpass, and from which it has very gradually receded.
Henry Stephens, in his Apologie pour Herodote, has culled many passages from these preachers, in proof of the depravity of morals in the age before the Reformation.
Dickens saw clearly the depravity of human nature, but he looked beyond the depravity to its cause, and he found a natural cause for the degradation, but not the cause that had been commonly assigned.
Child depravity sometimes exists, but it can generally be traced to injudicious methods of education in the family, the school, or the community.
Dickens used the doctor to rebuke the large class of people who are ever ready to believe the worst about a boy, and who are always looking for his depravity instead of searching for the divinity in him.
He taught his philosophy of the origin of many of the evils that are attributed to child depravity in Nobody's Story.
The firm belief in the doctrine of child depravity compelled conscientious men to be repressive and coercive in their discipline.
They recognised very clearly that the doctrine of child depravity was the logical (or illogical) basis of the theory of corporal punishment and all forms of coercion.
The most realistic picture of the influence of the child-depravity ideal on the training of childhood is given in Mrs. Clennam, in Little Dorrit.
If I ever let myself dwell on the horrible depravity that goes on unchecked, the depravity which you say we women license by ignoring it when we should face and unmask it, I should go out of my mind.
Observe the depravity of the human heart, and the evil nature of sin, as manifested in the conduct of wicked men, who have been left without restraint, and in the consequences resulting from such conduct.
They deluded themselves by building all sorts of churches, with creeds to suit the increasing depravity of the masses.
Owing to the increasing depravity and vileness of the Nephites, Ammaron was constrained by the Holy Ghost to hide up all the sacred things which had been handed down from generation to generation (A.
As this feeling grew, Alma's heart became exceedingly sorrowful and he mourned the depravity of his people.
King Francis had brought back with him to his native land, after his sojourn in Italy and his conference with Pope Leo, a highly cultivated artistic taste, united with a certain subtle depravity of morals.
Dame Isabella repeated word for word all she had heard of the shameful proceedings which hourly went on in the Castle of Amboise, and of the startling depravity of Henri de Lancy.
A case of moral depravity associated with mental deficiency, and cretinism.
The most famous, and most revolting, legend is that included in the career of St. Nicholas of Myra, which serves to show that this licensed-victualling depravity was international.
It is not more natural for fire to burn, than for this accursed depravity to infect every one it touches with corruption and death.
The depravity of mankind, which must be expected to operate in the poor as well as in the rich, is another occasion of the misuse of benevolent aid.
The depravity of the sex was extreme even at an early period, and Xenophon, Plutarch, and Aristotle, impute to this cause the ultimate subversion of the Spartan state.
The effect of this depravity of an old man writing down with unsteady hand vices and nakednesses on prescription blanks for the sake of a few francs with which to buy an absinthe, is tragic.
In a short story, Gestas, Anatole France has marvellously described in his insistent, quiet, dignified fashion the mingling of purity and depravity in this life of curious piety.
I have never before felt so keenly the weakness and depravity of the human heart; nor have I ever felt so deeply the necessity and the sufficiency of the atoning blood of Christ.
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