Myriads of lives have been utterly wasted and perverted by this form of the delusion, their folly receiving, for the most part, the countenance, support, and reverence of blinded contemporaries.
The ore may be rough and very mixed, but the precious metal is there also, as it was in our patient, though the divine influence for which she craved was perverted into that of the "Evil one.
For perverted men will use this absolute power to abuse the defenceless, rather than protect them; and abuse of power inevitably leads to the contempt of its victim.
It is the exceptions, not the masses of the man race, who have perverted or depraved their God-like natures into the subjectors of the dependent.
And all true men who have not perverted or depraved their God-like natures, will, and do, as instinctively protect their own wives, as they do themselves.
Why have the Daevas-worshippers perverted the truth and gone astray from the right path?
Have I perverted the powers, the senses, the preconceptions which Thou hast given me?
These very men who corrupted my heart, perverted my intelligence and poisoned my soul, as they have done with each and every priest of their Church, will be my witnesses, my only witnesses.
This is he who has forfeited his birthright of expression, who has cultivated artful intonations, who has taught his face tricks, like a pet monkey, and on every side perverted or cut off his means of communication with his fellow-men.
And hence any falsehood in the relation, any incomplete or perverted understanding, will spoil even the pleasure of these visits.
His vivid imagination was perverted to raise out of its own abyss phantoms of colossal terror.
To this perverted chemical action is also due the fatty degeneration so common in inebriates, affecting the muscles, the heart, and the liver.
The yellowish discoloration, usually from retained or perverted bile, gives the disease the medical name of cirrhosis.
This lost force is in close ratio to the retained carbon: so much perverted chemical change, so much loss of muscular power.
The appetite is diminished, nutrition perverted and impaired, the stature stunted, and both bodily and mental powers are enfeebled.
The view is superficial and perverted which maintains the Easterns to have lived in unity with nature; the soul in its activity, mind, is indeed undoubtedly in relation with nature and in unity with the truth of nature.
The above remark by Aristotle is perverted by Diogenes to such an extent that he says: “Thales has likewise ascribed a soul to what is lifeless.
Never did bad example arise but from a good precedent—only when the reins of empire have fallen from wise hands into ignorant or wicked guidance, that good example is perverted from grand and worthy to base and unworthy ends.
A malignant charity extended to the errors of the Primate that palliation which perverted reason otherwise refused to admit.
If I feel partial who have not even taken a bribe of what was my own, how perverted must the disposition of those become who receive bribes at the hands of others!
If this rule of interpretation could be departed from, there is hardly a power granted to congress, that might not lawfully be perverted into an authority for legalizing crimes of the highest grade.
Nearly all language, on the meaning of which courts adjudicate, would be liable, at the caprice of the court, to be perverted from the furtherance of honest, to the support of dishonest purposes.
The message of the Bible has been perverted by Catholic and Protestant misunderstandings into anything but a glorious and blessed Gospel.
Organized authority is perverted from its Divinely appointed function of restraint and punishment of crime into a ruthless rule of might and bloodshed.
The other characteristic of a perverted religion is the ecclesiastical conscience.
Because all the texts which plainly teach that "All the wicked will God destroy," were perverted to mean "All the wicked will God immortalize in hell.
The author believes that the role played by the absorption of products of perverted intestinal metabolism is an important one.
It is found too often and in too many varying conditions, nevertheless it undoubtedly does reveal the presence of perverted metabolism.
It is the part of wisdom never to have such a firmly preconceived idea of the diagnosis that facts observed are perverted in order to fit into the diagnosis.
The strict obedience to one system of Christianity, even in its grossly perverted form, had the effect desired by the State, of bringing about social unity to an advanced degree.
This evil-disposed man, whose whole life was one continued scene of wickedness, had pervertedhis mind and filled it with maxims of the most atrocious nature.
The recital of the matter afforded me much matter for reflection, and I admired how strange are the systems to which perverted reason gives birth.
A person full of crotchets; one given to fantastic or impracticable projects; one whose judgment is perverted in respect to a particular matter.
Fifty Norman abbeys honored themselves by their absence from the torture of a young girl who had all England against her, half of France, as well as the perverted learning of Paris University.
