In spiritual matters a person is by nature full of darkness, error, ignorance, malice, and perverseness in will and in mind.
It is the same perverseness under different colours, and both these resentments arise from mere pride.
She felt all the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought; and to prevent its ever happening again, took care to inform him at first, that it was a favourite haunt of hers.
She blushed again and again over the perverseness of the meeting.
He sighed; and in common with the hapless perverseness of mortals, thought he had thrown away, in Eugenia, a gem richer than all her tribe!
He had a home--but through perverseness he banished himself from all its comforts.
Thus infinite goodness overrules the perverseness of his people, as well as the wrath of sinners, ultimately to promote his own designs.
Such incredible obstinacy was in itself deserving of immediate punishment, and was sufficient proof, if proof were necessary, that they were in league with the devil, who is perverseness itself.
He does not say that iniquity and perverseness were not in him.
Its author, chagrined at the disappointment of his patriotism and his vanity, has sought the causes of failure in the folly of Monmouth and perverseness of Shaftesbury.
It is no reflection on human perverseness to say, that every one has his own way of admiring, and loves to feel and observe for himself; as well as to chew with his own teeth.
Grand chameau, sacre vache, and canaille, where the most genteel and decent terms with which he favoured them, and his perverseness was in proportion.
Are those who have been disappointed in their first choice, whether from the inconstancy of its object, or the perverseness of circumstances, to be equally indifferent during the rest of their lives?
But this, from the momentary perverseness of impatient suffering, she at first refused to do.
He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath He seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
Whether the same corruption and perverseness were to be expected from the nobles?
And if the influence of custom be added and confirm this perverseness of nature, as wicked Magisters have caused it to do, it becomes an incurable evil, and leads astray and destroys countless men beyond all hope of restoration.
The strange perverseness which turned away from such a radiance of glory to bow down before an idol is strikingly set forth by the figure of bartering it for an image, and that of an ox that ate grass.
The upright see it and rejoice, And all perverseness stops its mouth.
This is his Manner; and the same Perverseness runs through all his Actions, according as the Circumstances vary.
I had two Brothers, whose Deformity in Shape was made out by the Clearness of their Understanding: It must be owned however, that (as it generally happens) they had each a Perverseness of Humour suitable to their Distortion of Body.
I muttered, as the shadow of myperverseness passed deeply over my heart.
The reason is in our own hearts; in the perverseness which can make of its own heaven a hell!
As for Ilaria, the same passionate perverseness possessed her heart, and, though she pitied Francesco, she pitied him silently and from afar.
A soft light shone in her eyes; yet underneath there was that inexplicableperverseness in her heart that at certain moments makes a woman treacherous to her own desires.
Your path lies henceforth with the Church, from which only my ownperverseness and blindness had severed you.
There was a tinge of petulance about the red mouth, the pathetic perverseness of a heart that loved not by the will of circumstance.
Her very love for him stiffened her perverseness and caused her to delight in torturing him.
A flash of her old-time perverseness lighted up Ilaria's sad eyes.
The ineradicable perverseness of some minds is amusingly illustrated by Southey, in his History of Brazil.
The perverseness of the Greeks in this respect was so great that, as we have seen, they not only adored boys while despising women, but preferred masculine women to feminine women.
Perverseness is a bracer to a love-sick girl, and more effectual than the cold bath to make hardy, although the constitution be ever so tender.
But now the unheard-of cruelty and perverseness of some of your friends [relations, I should say--I am always blundering thus!
