Need we recall to mind the infamies which stain the writings of the ancients as often as they describe the manners of their times?
She was considering the beauty of these gardens which seemed to sleep under a dome of hard, polished blue--the beauty of this cloistered Nacumera, wherein so many infamies writhed and contended like a nest of little serpents.
You must need delay and rescue me, while your spawn inflicted hideous infamies on Melicent!
The heart of the matter for Schiller was to free his mind with respect to the infamies of high life.
In 'Emilia Galotti', with its drastic comment upon the infamies of princely lust, he saw the subject of court life in a light very different from that in which it habitually appeared to the carefully guarded pupils of the Stuttgart academy.
Rather let us erect a statue to a virtue which can still blush for infamies at which so many women dare to be spectators.
It seemed better to endure Nero’s infamies than to see the Empire torn to pieces.
Pudens and Titus felt a pang of regret that, in combat with a free people, the name of Rome should be stained with the infamies of scamps and weaklings who had provoked that terrible revolt.
My lot is now with this world, of which I have seen the infamies and loathe the crimes.
De Gery pointed out very clearly all the infamies and all the double dealing which surrounded him.
Even with my ideas of the average honor of the believers in superstition, the average truthfulness of the disciples of fear, I did not believe that all those infamies rested solely upon poorly-attested falsehoods.
I read it, but it did not burn itself, as it were, into my very soul what infamies had been committed in the name of religion, and I never fully appreciated it until a little while ago I saw the iron arguments our fathers used to use.
With Zilah, this sad state was due to a sort of insurrection of his loyalty against the many infamies to be met with in this world, which he had believed to be only too full of virtues.
His inclination to prodigality and luxurious living made him rapacious, but he was ignorant of most of the infamies that were committed in his name.
That party can never carry its record; that party is loaded down with the infamiesof twenty years; yes, that party is loaded down with the infamies of fifty years.
Thus they strive to extend the blessings of God to the infamies of men.
If indeed the above is a correct exposition of our rights and privileges as American citizens," he writes, "how is it that such infamies can transpire as have lately been exhibited in our courts?
It is not easy to regard with equanimity the blunders of the "Reconstruction policy" and the manifold infamies which have followed fast upon its adoption.
He gone, there was the spectacle of Tiberius devising infamiesso monstrous that to describe them new words were coined.
Hundreds of assigned convicts made their escape to the back country, and became bushrangers; many got down to the coast, and crossed to the Pacific islands, whence they spread the infamies of New South Wales throughout all Polynesia.
One word, however, is far from describing all the infamiesof the city.
It would even seem, from several passages in the Bible,[13] that the participators in these infamies were not invariably human beings.
Finally, Elagabalus, whom the historian could only compare to a wild beast, surpassed even the most audacious infamies of his predecessors.
Was he to relate the nameless infamies of Macquarie Harbour as a proof that he was entitled to receive the hospitalities of the generous, and to sit, a respected guest, at the tables of men of refinement?
He went to bed at last, though to toss another hour in fruitless effort to solve this puzzle and to free his eyes of those flashing infamies of the night.
These things he now knew were to be expected among the deft infamies of a Buckeye comedy.
If we join to this excessive sensibility a passionate love for art, a first-rate intellect, tastes essentially refined, and then think of the thousand deceptions, and numberless infamies of which M.
Now, this persecution differs only in degree from the infamies of the olden times.
I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw the iron arguments that Christians used.
In provincial cities, where everybody knows everybody else, such infamies are almost impossible.
We open credits to our passions, and we keep account of our infamies by double entry.
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