The priesthood are not so illiberal as report makes them out; they are painted to us as having a fixed hatred to Protestants, conceiving them to be the authors of all the obloquy the Catholics have endured from time to time.
Now excess and deficiency are united in one sin; for some are at once illiberal and wasteful--illiberality being a sin of deficiency, and prodigality, by excess.
According to the same likeness of potentiality to its act, the illiberal man loves the man who is liberal, in so far as he expects from him something which he desires.
One may be prodigal and illiberal with regard to different objects: for instance one may be illiberal [*Cf.
These tumid assertions, so void of truth, are not to be imputed to an illiberal spirit of vain glory, so much as to a political design of extenuating the national calamity, and supporting the spirit of the people.
Truth obliges us to own, that even the subjects of Great Britain are apt to be elevated by success into an illiberal insolence of self-applause, and contemptuous comparison.
K] However this may be, and strongly as theilliberal mode of proceeding may have operated against respectable actors at various times, Mr. Dwyer has carried every thing before him.
Yet still, it will be urged, the curiosity is not illiberal which would seek to ascertain the precise career through which Shakspeare ran.
Also the patriots consigned to the fire anilliberal pamphlet by King Fr: Wilhelm III of Prussia.
If I am partial, there is, at least, some merit in my conversion fromilliberal prejudices which had grown up with my constitution.
Prejudice against any one country is an illiberal feeling, which common reflection should, and which enlightened travel usually does, entirely remove.
These illiberal measures only spread mischief and misery on all sides.
What galled Marlborough as much as anything was that he had been in the House of Lords strongly supporting one of the most illiberal attempts of the Tories to destroy the effect of the Act of Toleration.
The queen went to the House of Lords to listen to the debate, where she heard Tenison, the Archbishop of Canterbury, honestly denounce the illiberal and persecuting spirit which had suggested such a Bill.
Loud laughter is extremely inconsistent with 'les bienseances', as it is only the illiberal and noisy testimony of the joy of the mob at some very silly thing.
He conceived of a poetic devotion to the public idea, a devotion of which the mind of Aristotle, as his criticisms of Plato show, was incapable, as a substitute for the warm and tender but illiberal emotions of the home.
Hurd wrote a pamphlet against it, with all the illiberal petulance, arrogance, and scurrility, which distinguish the Warburtonian school.
It is also very proper to banish, both from their hearing and sight, everything which is illiberal and the like.
Each side has imputed to the otherilliberal and selfish motives.
Nowhere in the churches was their opposition to the Abolition movement more persistent and illiberal than in the theological seminaries, whence the pulpits drew their supplies of preachers.
A few years in the university of experience, where he learned that conduct is better than creeds, and living more than believing, served to emancipate him from illiberal prejudices and narrow sectarianism.
The malice of the tories has several times swelled open their bosoms, and broke out into the most intemperate and illiberal invectives against it; but all in vain.
It never occurred to them that it was just possible that their narrow, illiberal views were not shared by everybody!
She had spoken of her to her aunt, who had again shown herself deplorably illiberal and incisive.
These lines exasperated still more the inelegant, illiberal Burleigh.
Day after day some of these personages made their appearance; and Lady Dashfort took care to draw them out upon the subjects on which she knew that they would show the most self-sufficient ignorance, and the most illiberal spirit.
