But that the tenth part of that sum, nay, that the hundredth part of that sum should be expended in a contest, is a great evil.
That we should all think a great evil to himself, and a great evil to society.
It is a great evil, no doubt, that a man should be a heretic or an atheist.
He began by expressing to them the pleasure he felt in seeing them thus assembled for the purpose of deliberating on a most important subject,--that of avoiding war, which is always a great evil.
In other words, they licensed and sustained a great evil, to combat a privilege of equal evil, claimed and used by a foreign monopoly in our midst.
A GREAT BOOK IS A GREAT EVIL [Greek: Mega biblion mega kakon] A man who publishes his works in a volume has an infinite advantage over one who communicates his writings to the world in loose tracts and single pieces.
This gave occasion to the famous Greek proverb which I have chosen for my motto, That a great book is a great evil.
That a large proportion of the owners of the soil of a country should reside out of it, has been always regarded as a great evil, as well as a real loss to that country.
It was universally acknowledged that the want of sufficient capital was one of the great evils--if not the great evil of Ireland.
For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
I will call upon the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain: and you shall know, and see that you yourselves have done a great evil in the sight of the Lord, in desiring a king over you.
By this too it is evident, that woman is a great evil; for the father, who begat her and brought her up, having given her a dowry sends her away in order to be rid of the evil.
For when a man, sweet in words, holding bad sentiments, persuades the multitude, it is a great evil to the city.
Hence, a grave reason for cooperation exists when, if one refuses it, a great good will be lost or a great evil incurred.
The noble lord, who had just spoken, had exemplified this; for though slavery was a great evil in itself, he was of opinion that it could not be done away, but in a course of time.
Bill as "an honest attempt" to deal with a great evil: as if one had a right to dragoon and enslave one's fellow citizens as a kind of chemical experiment; in a state of reverent agnosticism about what would come of it.
In short, I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil.
We cannot say that Bristol was in 1830 or is now, a great evil.
I will not, then, to begin, go as far as some who say that "A great city is a great evil.
If a mode can be devised by the wisdom of Congress to prevent the resources of the United States from being converted into the means of annoying our trade, a great evil will be prevented.
Was it a desirable object to do away a great evil?
This also is a great evil, That just as he came so he must go.
I further think it would be a great evil to separate a typical collection (which I can by no means look at as only popular) from the collection in full.
To all people I cannot but think that the number of new terms would be a great evil.
Till you have a thoroughly bad stomach, you will not know the really great evilof it, morally, physically, and every way.
The noble lord, who had just spoken, had exemplified this: for though slavery was a great evil in itself, he was of opinion, that it could not be done away but in a course of time.
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