However great was the gross wisdom of the ages the net wisdom was remarkably small.
As though being full of gross appetites was truth, and discipline and training some sort of falsity!
On the one side, we have a grossand grotesque polytheism; on the other, an uncompromising monotheism.
To interpret such metaphors in their purely natural sense would therefore land us in gross error.
Beaumarchais has since demanded from Congress payment of a gross sum, as due to him, and has received a considerable part, but has rendered no particular account.
But its impregnability could not offset its gross imprudence.
Extreme religionists may audaciously fancy that the judgment of God upon Franklin may be severe; but it would be gross disloyalty for his own kind to charge that his influence has been ignobly material.
The number and gross amount of these were not stated in the advices; but the commissioners were ordered to "accept them when they should appear.
According to their own statement of October 13, Peary and his clique convict themselves of boldly and deliberately perpetrating gross falsehoods against Dr.
No honorable man can allow such open charges of gross immorality as Dr.
Experience has shown that in recent years running expenses tend to increase nearly parallel with the gross receipts, and a large increase in gross traffic would involve enormous capital outlay for rolling stock, engines, sidings, etc.
Although reliable data are unavailable, gross domestic product is lower than 12 years ago because of the loss of labor and capital and the disruption of trade and transport.
Gross national product (GNP): The value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year, plus income earned abroad, minus income earned by foreigners from domestic production.
Gross world product (GWP): The aggregate value of all goods and services produced worldwide in a given year.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of most of the developing countries is now presented on a purchasing power parity (PPP) basis rather than on an exchange rate basis.
Gross domestic product (GDP): The value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year.
Many more instances might be produced of this peculiar fancy, which could never have subsisted but from a gross and utter depravation of manners.
Such terrible alarms seem, indeed, to be particular to those whom Nature or education have endowed with superior sensibility, as the gross of mankind look forward to death, if not with indifference at least without terror.
This nourishment allays their hunger; but as their stomachs and bowels are yet too weak to digest a gross and viscous substance, they suffer by it, and not unoften die by indigestions.
A fluid differs from a solid, because it has not any particles gross enough to admit us to grasp it on different sides at one time.
Of these vile excesses, gross superstition and a blind sense of the duties of religion, have been the sources, while motives more earthly have induced people of other countries eagerly to devote their daughters to their chiefs.
I should have thought it a gross violation of duty and respect.
It was too horrible a confusion of guilt, too gross a complication of evil, for human nature, not in a state of utter barbarism, to be capable of!
How evidently was there a gross want of feeling and humanity where his own pleasure was concerned; and alas!
There is more of grace in the attitudes and draperies of the female figures of the Canticles, and less of that gross and unimaginative treatment of sacred personages which borders both on the ludicrous and the profane.
The book is a curious compend of piety and unconscious irreverence, of high scholarship and gross stupidity, as will be more clearly shown by the following translation of the legends that explain the pictures on the opposite page.
Madden has pointed out severalgross blunders, caused by the transposition of lines and pages and an erroneous calculation of the space that should be occupied by print.
The Wilmington expedition has proven a gross and culpable failure.
The surrender of Holly Springs was most reprehensible and showed either the disloyalty of Colonel Murphy to the cause which he professed to serve, or gross cowardice.
Ces pères de famille sont capables de tout,” was the satirical remark of Talleyrand upon the gross public jobbing so largely practised by those who sought place or promotion for their sons.
He then ravaged the territory at pleasure: nor had the Kymæans any other resource, except to send envoys to Athens, to complain of so gross an outrage, inflicted by the Athenian general upon an unoffending Athenian dependency.
Such a story as "The 'Genius'" is as gross and shapeless as Brünnhilde.
His concern, one may say, is with the gross anatomy of passion, not with its histology.
The truth is, the position of these government directors was such that, without a total disregard of the statutes, and their duties under it, it was not possible to keep all knowledge of these gross abuses from the department.
Without the secretary's approval of the companies' work and accounts, they could not possibly have committed such gross frauds upon the government.
Perhaps he deserved punishment for his unguarded language, but he paid dearly indeed as a reformer of gay women’s fashions and gross parsons’ passions!
All the chivalry of France was shocked at this amazing outrage, and King Charles, with Arthur de Richemont and a strong force, hurried into Lorraine from Dauphiné, determined to make an example of the gross behaviour of the Messins.
How dare you offer thisgross insult to your Sovereign!
Indeed, considering the character of some of my own books, such an attempt would be gross inconsistency.
It is said that the case becomes different when the pleasure sought is not a gross or material enjoyment, but the satisfaction of performed virtue.
The rites of Bacchus, being accompanied by gross and scandalous obscenity, were suppressed, the consul, in a remarkable speech, calling upon the people to revive the religious policy of their ancestors.
For I reject the vain fable that the ambrosial creature is really an unspiritual compound of lime, which the gross ignorant call plaster of Paris.
This was very brutally done by the Romans who, by conquering the greatest part of the globe known to the ancients, laid the first foundations, quite gross and negative ones no doubt, of humanity.
This was the first draft of humanity, verygross and quite negative.
According to this, such a one might have very fine organs at his disposition, such another very gross organs.
These would only have been gross and cruel misnomers.
Men, coarsening with the materialism of the ages, have grown thick and gross with the luxury of inventions and the diseases of modern life that develop intellect at the expense of soul.
The ear is a miserable organ at best, and the majority are far toogross to know clair-audience.
As light is distorted by passing through a gross atmosphere, so sound reaches us but indistinctly now, and few true names can bring their wondrous messages of power correctly.
It would be a gross error on our part, if, disregarding our own Chinese customs and human sentiments, we were to try to force upon (our people) a foreign type of social government just as we copy a foreign make of machinery.
Thirdly, he believed that the social science of the West, and especially its political philosophy, might lead the Chinese into gross error, since it was derived from a quite different ideology, and not relevant to Chinese conditions.
