A large part of it, and probably the most representative part, is characterized by a foulness and an obscenity which the present generation cannot countenance.
While in one sense they stand as a pitiless indictment of the generation that tolerated them, they are not a reflection of the life that Gillray saw, except in the sense that their physical deformity symbolizes the moral foulness of the age.
Would you indeed maintain that, while the light of the sun or of a candle, diffused through unclean places, contracts no foulnessin itself therefrom, yet the baptism of Christ can be defiled by the sins of any man, whatsoever he may be?
For if the baptism of John required washing off, it must, beyond all doubt, have had some foulness in it.
Let him, with all my heart, exaggerate the foulness of the Manichaeans, and endeavour to divert it on to me by his barking.
We all know that we may sit in a hall like this, packed full and steaming, while the condensed breath is running down the windows, and never be aware of the foulness of the odours and the air.
When one sees vile things done on earth, and no bolt coming out of the clear sky, it is not easy to believe that all the foulness is known to God; but His eye reaches further than He wills to stretch His arm.
At last the thing lay still; and from the wet, sticky foulness of it I rose and stood shuddering.
To the cleansing water I ran, plunged in, purged myself of that horrible foulness which human senses could not endure.
Vico, as I have said, lies on a plateau, and when the road has traversed the clean town--how different from the foulness of Castellammare or Nocera!
Heresy, why it has lost its foulness in the minds of Protestants, 234.
In one night they undid all his work on five sown morgen of fat land, and with the first wink of the sun in the east they were back again in their kopjes, leaving devastation and foulness wherever they passed.
He was barely a man when he would ride on to the dorp and its saloons, and in time he was there oftener and oftener, drinking and soiling his hands with all the strange foulness of life the English bring with them.
All the lower Hell lies beneath them, and it is from that rather than from the next circle in particular that the stench arises, symbolical of the foulness of the sins which are punished there.
It made the foulness of the criminal world, unknown to her except as material for the legitimate drama, a horrible reality, and bred misgivings that the things in the newspapers were really true.
He was foul from the terms of his heritage of life, with the superadded foulness of the galleys.
Tis not the coat that looks so dun, His hide emits a foulness out; Not one jot better looks the sun Seen from behind a dirty clout.
The wind is dead on the shore, and Foulness lies scarce three miles to leeward.
It is his task so to portray it that we can all see its meaning, or at all events catch the human drift of it, not merely the foulness and the reek of blood.
How muchfoulness cost thou hide under thy beauty and how many a pious man hast thou seduced, whose end was repentance and perdition!
The unwashed garment which the prophet continues to wear for a time represents the foulness of Israel; just as the order to bury it at Perath indicates what Iahvah is about to do with His polluted people.
Thine adulteries and thy neighings, the foulness of thy fornications upon the hills in the field (iii.
They cannot avoid imputing some share of foulnessto them that are for scouring the chamber; and the civilized male, keeping his own chamber locked, quite shares their pale taper's view.
