But if he was ignorant and unrefined, on the other hand he was honest, a plain man who did his duty up to his light, not given either to self-indulgence or greed, and humane at least up to the Roman average.
Hasdrubal himself was roused by the gravity of the situation from his usual self-indulgence and lethargy.
I am confident of a cordial welcome, and hence feel some claim to your indulgence while I briefly allude to the means of my present deliverance from utter financial ruin.
Never did I grudge hard-earned money for sensual indulgence less.
His weak indulgence of me, the open favouritism with which he distinguished me from my brothers and sisters was--I know now--scandalous.
Darwin combated and assuaged my disease from time to time, his indulgence to all my wishes, his active desire to see me amused and happy, proved incessant.
Probably he lost nothing of his popularity with the army by occasional freeindulgence in sensual pleasures, with which, as Bacon remarks, the soldier is apt to pay himself for the perils he encounters.
You have an attack of veritable 'Whitmania,' arising from a too long indulgence in the intoxicating yet enervating flow of Swinburnian superlatives?
To all who joined in the crusade was offered an indulgenceof two years.
The Church's great difficulty was that as soon as an army had bought its plenary indulgence for all possible sin by forty days' service, it disbanded.
What, indeed, has all the turmoil below been suffered for if not to allow such indulgence on land?
The man spat at him for an answer, and the commissary exclaimed that forty days' indulgence would be granted by the Bishop of Norwich to every one who would cast a stick into the pile.
The execution of traitors was not to imply an indulgence of heresy; the punishment of heretics should give no hope to those who were disloyal to their king and country.
Their properties had been confiscated, they had borne faggots and candles in a procession as sanbenitos,[505] and Paul had issued a promise of indulgence to all pious Catholics who would kill an English heretic.
Seymour, simply because he had gone further in treason than almost any other member of the House, was louder than any other member of the House in exclaiming against all indulgence to his brother traitors.
Guy Faux was to be treated with an indulgence which was not to be extended to a shoplifter.
The indulgence which was shown to the principal offender was not extended to his subordinates.
The government of Ireland was for a time entrusted to Lords justices, among whom Sir Henry Capel, a zealous Whig, very little disposed to show indulgence to Papists, had the foremost place.
He had directed his Commissioner Melville to obtain for the Episcopalians of Scotland an indulgence similar to that which Dissenters enjoyed in England.
A committee of the whole House resolved that the unjustifiableindulgence with which the Irish had been treated since the battle of the Boyne was one of the chief causes of the misery of the kingdom.
Even the Tory counsellors of William owned thatindulgence had been carried to the extreme point.
During the few days which remained to him he exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command.
He sent out to the factories of the Company orders that no indulgence should be shown to the intruders.
All my hope is in the continued indulgence of the public.
I am not clear that it is right or healthful indulgence to be ripping up old sorrows, but it seems to give her deep-seated sorrow words, and that is a mental bloodletting.
But ambition awakes, as love of quiet indulgence dies and is mortified within me.
It appears to me to be only a vicious habit or indulgence which would cease to exist in a state of society in which the habit were almost universally reprobated, and the means for its indulgence almost absent.
She would keep meek and lowly, remembering her indulgence in sinful feelings, her doubt and distrust.
True, he brought up his whiskey and sold it as long as it lasted, but unfortunately the Indians used to securing their indulgence in that manner would not believe it.
Of course a white man may, with perfect impunity, defraud or abuse a negro to any extent, provided he is careful to avoid the presence of any of his own caste, at the execution of his contract, or the indulgence of his malice.
How mindful they are of the requirements even of that instrument, when obedience to them would check the indulgence of their malignity to the blacks, appears from the 7th Section of the 8th Article, viz.
Acland, even among our most favoured children, were it not for the indulgence permitted them during their long holidays.
While the men thus gave indulgence to their indignation and their grief, their officers were even mere painfully affected.
For Heaven's sake, agitate not your father thus, by the indulgence of a grief that can have no other tendency than to render him equally wretched.
But Crabbe's indulgence in this habit is never a mere concession to the reader's flippant taste.
While on the subject of servants, I must deprecate the over indulgence of the present system towards them.
For the moment I must beg that a little indulgencebe granted to her.
He said I should lead the life of such a gentleman as the world had not yet seen--on that simple condition, which appeared to me childish, a senile whim; rather an indulgence of his.
These marks of indulgence to Sinclair fell heavily upon the heart of him who still mourned two promising brothers, sent to an untimely grave by brutal revenge.
They returned to Fort Augustus where the Duke of Cumberland then lay, in great triumph with their prisoners; Urie, as he expected, from the indulgence of some who were about the Duke, was very soon set at liberty.
