He encouraged Persis to extravagances she would never have dared even in her present mood.
Wild extravagances for our people would be shabby makeshifts to you.
However this may be, there are already sufficient extravagances prevalent among our young men to attack.
All extravagances are vulgar, because they are evidence of a pretence to being better than you are; but a single extravagance unsupported is perhaps worse than a number together, which have at least the merit of consistency.
Had they not, in the view at least of the Established Church, turned all England upside down with their fanaticisms and extravagances of doctrine and conduct?
It has given up the ancient and fantastic feats of asceticism, and the spiritual extravagances of the early monks.
Much as their errors and extravagances may be deplored, there is no question that some of them were types of the loftiest Christian virtues, inspired by the most laudable motives.
Sermons and newspapers drew attention to Froude's extravaganceswith horror and disgust.
Yes, dominies, you are responsible for all theextravagances of modern times, for the irreparable loss to virtue and society of the noble youth of your country.
Advice like this resulted in De Guiche becoming excited to such an extent that he committed extravaganceswhere Buckingham only incurred expenses.
She was fond of Cicely, in spite of that young lady's extravagances of dress and manner, and she divined something gone wrong.
The Quakers had excited alarm by their extravagances of manner as well as by their refusal to bear arms or to take oaths, and a special Act was passed for their repression.
His first little poem, some verses written in 1659 on the death of Lord Hastings, is a mass of grotesqueextravagances in the worst style of Donne.
Assuredly she often went into extravagances in the other direction.
In former days there reigned in Mr. Dickens's extravagances a comparative consistency; they were exaggerated statements of types that really existed.
We find a medley of extravagancesand commonplaces.
I think them more beautiful than Solomon's simile, or the extravagances of the Gita-Govinda.
I have, however, lightened the narrative of certain episodical and irrelevant passages, and relieved the general style of some boyish extravagances of diction.
It threw off its extravagances without swerving from the artificial character of its inspiration.
No, individuality is no more inconsistent with the antique spirit than it is with eccentricity, with the extravagances of personal expression.
Others are the need of a longer school year and how to get it, the foolish extravagances of buying showy clocks, sewing machines, and organs before a house is owned to put them in, and similar subjects.
Grumblings at their luxury and extravagances were only withheld because of other luxuries and extravagancesperpetrated for the amusement of the people.
It had even become the fashion to accept outwardly and without the slightest show of interest the wild extravagances and insane debaucheries of the ferocious tyrant who for the nonce wielded the sceptre of the Cæsars.
But it was not long before his extravagances were traced to their source--usually the bottle.
Christophe's new extravagances were naturally set, side by side with his former indiscretions, in the scroll.
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