This gluttony kills more than the sword, this omnivorantia et homicida gula, this all-devouring and murdering gut.
I have said enough to illustrate his gluttony of work.
For gluttony and drinking, too much sleep, idleness and loitering are the weapons of unchastity.
Footnote 236-5: The gross luxuries of drunkenness and gluttony are a direct consequence of universal grossness, and disappear of themselves when higher wants and means of satisfying them are introduced.
Besides, nations of hunters are frequently decimated by famine and pestilence, the latter generally a consequence of never-ending alternation between gluttony and famine.
Gluttony is often the cause of the tea, coffee, alcohol and drug habits.
Gluttony is more common than inebriety and is responsible for more ills.
Remarkable examples of the refinement of cruelty and of gluttony are to be found in this little animal world.
Gluttony is not with them the only moving principle of existence; they do not forget what they owe to the world, and keep up an appearance which allows them at all times to present themselves afresh.
Thus through several pages this amusing poem goes on to describe the gluttony and drunkenness of the abbot and prior, and the ill-treatment of their inferiors.
Gluttony was an especial characteristic of that class of society to which the minstrel belonged, and perhaps this was the idea intended to be conveyed in the next picture, No.
Ownership is an appetite like hunger or thirst, and as we may eat to gluttony and drink to drunkenness so we may possess to avarice.
How many men have I seen who, though they regard themselves as models of temperance, wear the marks of unbridled indulgence of the passion of possession, and how like gluttony or licentiousness it sets its sure sign upon their faces.
The caution was scarcely needed, for the Normans, albeit they were ever reproaching the Saxons with gluttony and drunkenness, were feasting and drinking at an immoderate rate, and had taken no care to set a watch.
It was not through the malecontent of these rude men, nor through these lay stomachs, but through the malice and gluttony of cloister-monks, that the sanctuary was violated.
Their chief vices were those of gluttony and intemperance, and their great pleasures were those of hunting and gambling.
His inordinate gluttony made him most inconveniently corpulent, and produced ulcers and the gout.
When we take our pleasure from that from which brutes draw pleasure--from lust like dogs, or from gluttony like swine--our souls become like theirs.
Others encouraged the savage gluttony of their children, stimulating their unnatural and bestial appetites, on the ground that "the poor creatures had nothing else to enjoy but their food, and they should have enough of that!
His gluttony is unaccompanied with the gratification of taste,--the most savory viands and the offal which he shares with the pigs equally satisfy him.
The scrutiny revealed terrible irregularities in some cases, prominent among which were the vices of gluttony and drunkenness.
In the year 1008, it is ordered, among other monitions, that diabolic deeds be shunned, 'in gluttony and drunkenness.
Nations and individuals should guard against those vices to which they find they have a natural disposition; and drinking and gluttony are the vices to which the common people in this country are the most addicted.
No other reason, but that gluttony is a sin, and too many dunghills are infectious.
Gluttony Epicurus doth defend, And books of the art of cookery confirm, Of which Platina hath not writ the least.
I am too full of phrensy, Fairfax, to tell thee what I mean: but she has given me another proof, more damning even than all the former, of the gluttony with which her soul gorges.
It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made me what I am.
I am well aware, that it is a common opinion, that the gout is as frequently owing to gluttony in eating, as to intemperance in drinking fermented or spirituous liquors.
Nothing in the whole annals of ancient and modern gluttony can exceed the dinner said to have been given by George Neville, the brother of the King-maker, on his induction to the Archbishopric of York, in the fifteenth century.
But, pagan, idolater that you are, do you not know that gluttony is perhaps the most abominable of the seven capital sins?
You wish, in a word, doctor, to prove to me that gluttony is a noble, sublime passion, do you not?
Indeed, it is not only gluttony that he glorifies,--he pushes his paradox to the glorification of the seven capital sins!
This, doctor, may be very witty, but it does not convince me in the least that gluttony is, in you or any other person, a quality.
If gluttony is a monstrosity, then frugality pushed to the extreme ought to be a virtue.
Are you vexed to see that gluttony controls all sorts of industries and productions which count for so much in the commercial progress of France?
Though I am not an Alderman, I have yet prudence enough to respect thatgluttony of faith waggishly yclept orthodoxy.
Drunkenness and gluttonylead to poverty, and drowsiness clothes a man with rags.
They seem to indicate a time of growing luxury; gluttonyand drunkenness are the subjects of strong invective.
Temperance is the virtue contrary to the two deadly sins of Gluttony and Lust.
Clear him of gluttony and lust, there remains upon him the sin of sloth and of a wasted existence.
And with all converts I found that the experiences in the penalties of gluttony were so enlightening, so restraining, that there was apparently little need to say much more as to the quantity or quality of food, what and how to eat.
To show you how fortuitous was development in those days let me state that had it not been for the gluttony of Lop-Ear I might have brought about the domestication of the dog.
