It is plain that both appellations acquired their discreditable import mainly from the collateral circumstance that the persons so denominated took money for their compositions or teaching.
Now if the persons concerned were other than the Sophists, scarcely any critic would have thought himself entitled to fasten upon them a discreditableimputation without some evidence.
It is a most discreditable custom for those who have been raised to the diaconate to serve as choristers, for it behooves them to give their whole time to the duty of preaching and to taking charge of the alms.
Thirdly, to avoid the discreditable pursuits whereby some seek a livelihood.
It would be most uncandid to attribute to sordid motives actions which admit of a less discreditable explanation.
This point Hume has laboured, with an art which is as discreditable in a historical work as it would be admirable in a forensic address.
The transaction was, in almost every part, discreditable to England.
Clive's profession was war; and he felt that there was something discreditable in an accommodation with Surajah Dowlah.
Men unable to understand the elevation of his mind, have tried to find out some discreditable motive for the vehemence and pertinacity which he showed on this occasion.
It is hard to decide which is the more discreditable and demoralising sight.
Why then is it any less discreditable to practise an insincere conformity in more ordinary circumstances?
Stanley will fight the Government battles himself, and not suffer Brougham to take the Ministerial bench under his dangerous and discreditable protection.
It is the straightforward, intelligible, and honourable course, and he had far better fall by that than succeed by such a monstrous and discreditable connexion as that with the Protectionists would be.
This is as thorough a Broughamism as can be found in the history of his strange, discreditable life.
But even in South Carolina, which introduced thediscreditable tyranny into her Constitution, this exclusion was more apparent than real.
This discreditable manœuvre becomes more notable in view of an incident in the early history of Virginia, curious and important, and also applicable to all the States during their colonial existence.
The “discreditable coalition” proved the theme of much lamentation.
This discreditable proceeding was taken under an obsolete statute of Queen Anne’s time.
This choice of names is an application of the same principle that led to the omission of the discreditable incidents in the history of David and Solomon.
We have seen that, after giving the concluding formula for the reign of Jehoshaphat, the chronicler adds a postscript narrating an incidentdiscreditable to the king.
In his account of the attack made upon Ahaz by Rezin, king of Damascus, and Pekah, king of Israel, he emphasises the incidents most discreditable to Ahaz.
As the night closed in, the crowd became immense, and some discreditable exultation was expressed by the lowest of the mob; but the general feeling created was that of humane commiseration and unmitigated horror.
By the intervention of these gentlemen, it is hoped these discreditable squabbles will be stopped, and Castor and Pollux will be once more seen in company.
This persecution was the more mortifying and discreditable as it even extended to his servants, whom they strove to injure by every means they could employ.
Provision is farther made for punishing any omission of military service either by males or females, or any discreditableabandonment of arms.
Though Mitchell was guilty, the manner of his taking off was flagrantly unjust and most discreditable to all concerned.
I hope you will realize this, and give up a discreditable profession.
I must say," interposed the housekeeper, "that this seems a very discreditable conspiracy against my stepson.
Discreditable to the youngster's intelligence and scientific knowledge, the story is highly discreditable to his breeding.
He had entered his nineteenth year when he did this distinctly discreditable thing.
The lynching at New Orleans in March last of eleven men of Italian nativity by a mob of citizens was a most deplorable and discreditable incident.
Such a result would be discreditable to our financial management and disastrous to all business interests.
Others, more critically nice, assumed that, "since writing of books had grown into a trade, it was as discreditable for a king to become an author as it would be for him to be a practitioner in a profession.
But so greatly has the hysteria of war unsettled the public mind that even this latter class is subject to discreditableaccusations and some degree of interference.
The record in these matters of the highest legislative body in the land is still the most discreditable of that of any nation in Christendom.
In the long list of controversies which the student of literature is under the necessity of examining, none seems so uncalled for and so discreditableto the assailants as this.
Previously to this discreditable act, the Department of State had committed one of imbecility.
Invention was tasked to furnish discreditable reasons for all that he said and did.
Equally surprising was the unconsciousness of the biographer, that there was anything discreditable in what he disclosed.
He failed, however, in getting a majority in the Council of Directors, though to do so he employed the discreditable tactics of his adversaries by manufacturing votes.
One thing seems certain: his ten successors in the Sunga dynasty were all more or less in the hands of the Brahmans, who managed the state while the titular monarchs amused themselves in various discreditable ways, until in B.
But less than a year later he appeared as defendant, and not as plaintiff, in the law courts, in the unenviable capacity of co-respondent in a discreditable divorce case.
The gross total receipts of the governor and commandant were enormous and amounted in a few years to upwards of thirty thousand pounds, secured by the most high-handed and discreditable methods.
