Contraindications to Marriage; Do Reformed Profligates Make Good Husbands?
He was conscious that he had no right to complain of any infidelity on her part, and he left her to be surrounded by men whom he knew to be profligates of the most dangerous pretensions to wit and elegance.
Would it were the great fire, and He had come to judge us, and to empty the vials of His wrath upon profligates and seducers!
In short they all appear to have been equally profligates and traitors to each other, and exhibit a dreadful, but I hope a useful picture of the influence of this Illumination which so wonderfully fascinates Germany.
These profligates judged rightly that this affair required much caution, and that the utmost attention to decency, and even delicacy, must be observed in their rituals and ceremonies, otherwise the women would be disgusted.
Ruffians were hired, or reckless profligates induced to betray her under plea of love and sympathy, well paid by the next heir for their treachery.
And they were told by theprofligates of Africa, that this and no less, was their doom.
Here are some delightful ribbons," said Chaudoreille, leaning on the counter, carelessly caressing his chin, and trying to imitate the free manners and impertinent tone of the profligates of the day.
Urbain realized by the language and manners of these gentlemen that they were profligates of the higher classes.
I have had some charming suppers there with Montglas, Chavagnac, Villempre, Monteille, and some other profligates of the court.
After the secret interview of the marquis and Chaudoreille, the four profligates returned to their play; but the party was no longer gay.
These are not noisy Templars; they are not profligates of the Court; they are not haunters of tavern and pot-house; they are not those who frequent the play-house.
Of sailors it is well known that their language is made up of profane oaths, and that they are all profligates and drunkards.
The grossest of profligates found in him one who had sunk to a lower depth than themselves; and so they dared to unburthen their very hearts to him; and few who did so went away without relief.
Especially was he unwilling that the bold eyes of any of the young adventurers and profligates who clustered under the banner of Rochester should survey the charms of his daughter and niece.
And accordingly the names of the most celebrated profligateshave been faithfully transmitted down to posterity.
If it should happen that these profligates have attacked an innocent person, I ask what satisfaction can their hirers give in return?
Moreover, "hidden" does not seem to be right even as an interpretation; for these profligates were not at all hidden; they were utterly notorious and scandalous.
Having compared theprofligates to the stars, or angels, who fell from heaven to earth, St. Jude passes on readily to quote the warning of one who was taken up from earth to heaven.
Like the men of Sodom, theseprofligates "defile the flesh.
The doom of these impious profligates has long since been written in the doom of those who sinned in a similar manner.
These profligates were twice dead, because they had returned after baptism to the death of sin: the end of such men is that they shall be rooted out at the last (Ps.
In a loathsome dungeon crowded with profligates and felons, John Bunyan breathed the very atmosphere of heaven; and there he wrote his wonderful allegory of the pilgrim’s journey from the land of destruction to the celestial city.
This was precisely the conduct that made the work of the profligates easy, that irritated the temper of the King, and that undermined the work of Clarendon.
Yet Evelyn had known Clarendon when his courage was most tried, when his hopes were baffled, and when the sordid crowd of courtiers and profligates had baited him almost to the death.
The latter were already assembling--laborers in neat, common clothing, with idlers and profligates not more forbidding, while a soldier on guard directed them where to rest and in what order or number to enter the building.
Art, who, never having dealt in any thing disingenuous himself, was slow to credit duplicity in others, did not once suspect that the profligates had played him off this trick, rather to annoy the brother than himself.
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