The Church of England, though long neglectful of her children in this distant colony, had by this time begun to waken to her duty towards the sheep of her fold in Carolina.
With the dangers from the Indians over, and with the transfer of Carolina from the hands of the neglectful Lords Proprietors into the possession of King George II, brighter and more prosperous days began to dawn for North Carolina.
When People shew great Attachment to the World and their Pleasure, and are very cool, and even neglectfulin Religious Duties, it is ridiculous to ascribe their good Qualities to their Christianity.
His business matters were now entirely conducted by others, and he even grew neglectful of his personal appearance--a symptom that struck Edna with alarm.
Had she been culpably neglectful of her duty, Jesus would not have commended her course.
Nay, love, you should have no secrets from your father--an indulgent father, if sometimes a neglectful one.
He must be a half-hearted philanthropist or a neglectful husband; only an occasional preacher or a deserter of his home.
The affection between the brother and sister touched her, and thinking herself neglectful of a good little girl, she offered to take the desired walk at once.
But he continued neglectful and unheeding, while the child's affection seemed to thrive the more under disregard.
True it is that I have been neglectful of many of those reports, which deserved to be kept, and have only preserved such as would, in my opinion, please the lovers of history.
They are good to eat, and delight the ear of the listener with various songs; but the Spaniards are indifferent bird-hunters, and are neglectful in catching them.
My grandmother looked as a lady would look under such circumstances, neither too free to forget present appearances, nor coldlyneglectful of the past.
In the New Variorum Furness gives a summary of the interpretation and criticism for each play; but he is often quite neglectful of recent tendencies in criticism.
The claims of Esther Dudley's gentle blood were acknowledged by all the successive Governors; and they treated her with the punctilious courtesy which it was her foible to demand, not always with success, from a neglectful world.
I had quite forgotten her till this moment; how neglectful she will think us!
Absorbed in the strengthening of his cities and the embellishment of his ivory palaces, he becameneglectful of the worship of Jehovah, and careless of the more solemn and sacred duties of a theocratic king.
Yet alas, alas, the neglectful have stayed fast in their heedless sleep, and the foolish have spurned this most sacred of bestowals.
To be neglectful of it is to set up and keep up a needless and mischievous friction in our intercourse with others, and indefinitely to injure our influence in many ways.
I have besought my Brother to let nothing tempt him to push his preaching into a neglectful corner.
As I have previously said, up to the meeting with the Senator, I had been entirely neglectful of my proper duty of reporting to the War Department a formal account of my movements since leaving Washington.
At firstneglectful persons were brought before the Magistrates; but soon these persons became too numerous, and the Magistrates too busy to hear their excuses.
But there was no remedy; either I must follow them, or keep entirely apart from them, and thus appear neglectful of my charge.
This is the condition of the neglectful ones who are deprived of the Truth (the Manifestations of God) at the day of their existence among them.
The meaning is not that the neglectful souls will be non-existent.
Mr. Soames, a man of experience, scented an intrigue and a neglectful husband.
The cards were adapted to all tastes, and there was a fascination in them which made men neglectful of duty.
The claims of Esther Dudley's gentle blood were acknowledged by all the successive governors, and they treated her with the punctilious courtesy which it was her foible to demand, not always with success, from a neglectful world.
