Take thy life and fly whenas evils threat; let the ruined house tell its owner's fate, i.
A most competent observer, Tomás de Comyn, many years the factor of the Philippine Commercial Company, has depicted in dark colors, and perhaps somewhat overdrawn the evils of the system.
This system of encomiendas had been productive of much hardship and oppression in Spanish America, nor was it altogether divested of these evils in the Philippines.
That the system was detrimental to the economic progress of the islands was always obvious and its evils were repeatedly demonstrated by Spanish officials.
Throw yourselves, say they, into the experience of all the evils, the most extreme evils that can possibly befall you, and so be assured of them.
My beating heart is filled with dread, Beholding thee so suddenly; Perchance thy coming is a sign, Of evils overtaking me.
Mrs. Transome, whose imperious will had availed little to ward off the great evils of her life, found the opiate for her discontent in the exertion of her will about smaller things.
A candid survey of the causes which produce an infinity of evils that afflict society will quickly point out the speculative tenets of theology as their most fruitful source.
Would it not be accounted malice in this parent, who should have foreseen what was to happen, not to have furnished his children with the capacity of directing their own conduct so as to avoid the evils they might be assailed with?
But Hope--Hope, the second in order of the Christian perfections, is ever at hand to console us for the evils inflicted by Faith.
The evils of religion are sure, while its consolations are contradictory and vague.
The evilsfor which they can find no remedy are pronounced marks of the divine wrath; they are supernatural, and the priests must be applied to.
But the evils mentioned above would be entailed none the less.
But, at the same time, in periods of moral decline, complete freedom may degenerate so as to produce evilsequally great.
How well, for instance, the English sustained Napoleon’s continental blockade, the evils produced by which were intensified by several bad harvests.
He talked more on the subject of slavery than on any other, acknowledging, without limitation or hesitation, all the evils with which it has ever been charged.
The traveller (if he be not an abolitionist) is perfectly secure of good treatment, and fatigue and indifferent fare are the only evils which need be anticipated.
The sweet temper and kindly manners of the Americans are so striking to foreigners, that it is some time before the dazzled stranger perceives that, genuine as is all this good, evils as black as night exist along with it.
Addressing the King, he says, "The family priest has sent you some holy water, which will bring you peace of mind and ward off the evils for fear of which he made you keep up a whole night.
Apprehending future evils for his subjects, he confers with his priest, and acting on his advice, spends a whole night in religious contemplation in a temple of God.
No doubt [the same writer says again] there has been at times a deplorable amount of exaggeration among Continental Catholics in attributing all the moral and social evils of the world to the insidious workings of Freemasonry.
My eccentric wanderings have at least served to convince me of this,--that a man's sole refuge from the evils of solitude is to be found in the domestic sentiments.
The reform of very great evils will be cheaply accomplished if women by voting can right themselves.
McLean of Texas, on "The Evils of Intemperance to the Colored Race.
Smith, of Tennessee, on "The Evils of Caste to the Colored Race"; by Rev.
All destroying vices had fled, all public evils were rooted out.
Disastrous failures attend upon all your endeavors to conquer existing evils by the votes of men alone.
That the ballot in the hands of women would cure these evils he denied.
Wherefore, we, your petitioners, pray that some suitable provision remedying these evils be incorporated in the constitution you are about to frame.
The writers of the eighteenth century attributed to this circumstance the evils and sufferings of society.
This is not, however, the only point on which our author has mistaken the peculiar and enormous character of the evils of Ireland.
In this condition of the world, theory and action follow close upon each other, and practical evils easily give birth to opposite systems.
After describing the evils and disorders of the State, which the Pope so deeply felt that he put his own existence in peril, and inflamed half of Europe with the spirit of radical change in the attempt to remove them, Dr.
Thus, meaning very well, he acted very ill, and approached the evils he apprehended by his very solicitude to keep them at a distance.
Since the change produced by the French Revolution, those aspirations which are awakened by the evils and defects of the social state have come to act as permanent and energetic forces throughout the civilised world.
For it is hard to surrender a cause on behalf of which a struggle has been sustained, and spiritual evils have been inflicted.
They would still be subject to the laws of Georgia, surrounded by white settlements and exposed to all those evils which had always attended the Indian race when placed in immediate contact with the white population.
That the greatest possible recompence for all the evils and dangers which he had for so long a time undergone, both by sea and land, around the walls of Syracuse, was the reflection, that he had been able to take that city.
The theatres to which she went, and which both she and her husband enjoyed, were purified by her presence; evils which had been the growth of years disappearing before the face of the young Queen.
Transportation was then carried out upon a large scale, and all the evils of the prison existed in an intensified form on board the transport ships.
Great have been the evils which humanity has suffered by this intermingling of domination and exploitation with human association.
The indirect evils upon society at large are even more injurious than those which are direct.
Bribery and corruption were the evils which had to be dealt with, and the Reform Bill of 1831 left these evils as it had found them.
Long before that agitation approached to anything like success he had brought forward a motion in the House of Commons, directing attention to the evils and the horrors of the system, and calling for its abolition.
Sir Robert also indulged in the most gloomy prophecies about the evils which must come upon England as the direct result of the Reform Bill if that Bill were to be passed into law.
Lord John Russell explained that the chief evils with which the Government had to deal were three in number.
Philanthropists, no doubt With good intentions ripe, Their dogmas may put out, And arrogantly shout The evils of the pipe.
So great events from causes small arise-- The forest oak was once an acorn seed; And many a wretch from drunkenness who dies, Owes all his evils to the Indian weed.
Whatever evils may befall you, they will not be occasioned by my instrumentality, that I solemnly promise you.
For all evils there are two remedies--time and silence.
President, says it is in his power to remove one of the evils which is bringing the administration into disrepute, and causing universal indignation--Gen.
These evils might be remedied by the government, for there is no great scarcity of any of the substantials and necessities of life in the country, if they were only equally distributed.
There is much talk everywhere on the subject of a dictator, and many think a strong government is required to abate the evils we suffer.
The Secretary, in referring it, seems to incline to the opinion that the writ of habeas corpus not being suspended, there was no remedy for the many evils the Provost Marshal portrayed.
We shall soon have martial law, it is thought, which, judiciously administered, might remedy some of the grievous evils we labor under.
I shall turn Quaker after this war, in one sense, and strive to convince the world that war is the worst remedy for evils ever invented--and man the most dangerous animal ever created.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evils" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
