Refined dishonesty is as displeasing to God, as hurtful to society, and as unfit for heaven, as the coarsest crime.
There is a style of bombast morality affected by some authors, which must be hurtful to young readers.
It would be hurtful to exercise children frequently in descriptive composition; it would give them the habit of exact observation, it is true, but something more is necessary to the higher species of poetry.
We agree entirely with Mr. Stewart in his observations upon technical helps to the memory; they are hurtful to the understanding, because they break the general habits of philosophic order in the mind.
Too free a current of cold air is often hurtful to this process, as it tends to carry off caloric from the water, and consequently retards its conversion into vapour.
To the child, Nature gives various means of rectifying any mistakes he may commit respecting the salutary or hurtful qualities of the objects which surround him.
Gamboge is a bad article for candy, yellow, cheap, hurtful color.
If any of these Substances had any predominant evil Quality, it would soon appear to the Prejudice of the Health of Numbers; the People who subsist upon it, would soon leave it off as a very dangerous and hurtful Aliment.
But the active powers of evil still remained, hurtful and hateful to man, and the pessimist view of nature became inevitable.
An almost standing epithet of Aeshma is Khrvidra, meaning apparently 'having a hurtful weapon or lance.
Hot and close rooms are very hurtful in colds, as they tend to impede respiration; and sitting much over the fire increases the disorder.
The least hurtful but most common adulteration of wine, is that of mixing it with water, which may be detected by throwing into it a small piece of quicklime.
An exception should be made to these rules in the instances of scrophulous and rickety children, as much bread is always hurtful in these cases, and fruits are particularly pernicious.
But when the moles become too numerous, they are hurtful to vegetation, and require to be destroyed.
Action is always hurtful when, despising realities, it professes violently to change the course of events.
For the same reason I consider that it is hurtful to choose for the instruction of youth books in which scientific matters are clothed in an attractive style.
They refer to the general attitude of our thought, our bearing towards interests and people whom we have reason to believe are hurtful themselves and represent hurtful institutions.
Drive all hurtful fiends us fro, By the time the cocks first crow.
He is an "honest hajdamak" at first, but does not always end so; for it is an evil trade, hurtful to body and soul.
They have discarded all superfluities and ornaments, because they may behurtful to the mind.
Useful Variations will tend to Increase; useless or hurtful Variations to Diminish.
Antiphlogistic means could never prove hurtful in this case; they would become useless only if disorganisation were already operated; but then, since all hopes were gone, what means would not prove superfluous?
