But the younger Andronicus was speedily corrupted by his infant greatness, while he beheld with puerile impatience the double obstacle that hung, and might long hang, over his rising ambition.
In the blaze of prosperity, his virtues were insensibly tinctured with the adjacent vices; justice with cruelly, cruelty, liberality with profusion, and the desire of fame with puerile and ostentatious vanity.
It certainly was no common "fire," certainly no puerile concept to be brushed away by the mere hurling of an epithet.
Puerile as his philosophy appears in comparison with the later development of Greek philosophy, it created violent antagonism with mythical theology and led the way to further investigation and speculation.
Viewed from the modern standpoint of scientific research, the early philosophers of Greece appear puerile and insignificant.
It would be a delicate, and also a ratherpuerile task, to class men of genius in order of merit.
Such is my character: it is obvious that I have not applied myself to elude the knowledge of myself; and yet no one knows better than I do to what point this knowledge is puerile and unhealthy.
This literature of about the tenth century, usually judged as the puerile distraction of barbarous monks, seemed to him on the contrary full of an ingenuous freshness and of an ingenious refinement.
Marguerite quickly called out to the impetuous young girl, fearing the conversation, puerile in appearance, would take a still more acrid turn, and entail dangerous results for Marcel.
In the Zenana, she is restricted to the occupation of puerile gossipings, or listening to apocryphal fairy tales of so scandalising an impropriety that I shrink to pollute my ears by the repetition even of the tit-bits.
I am not a squeamish in such cases, and I must respectfully submit that the Cause of True Sport can only be hampered by such nursery and puerile restrictions, for none can expect to compound an omelette without the fracture of eggs.
Such criticisms as I overheard, seemed to me of a very puerile and captious description, and some of an opprobrious personality, e.
He has thrown on common images new lights of fancy; he has struck out the finest ideas from ordinary sentiments, and expunged all puerile conceits and absurdities.
The man was white with rage, for Jay was unpopular, and Miss Rothermel also, and he hated to be held in check by her presence, and by the puerile fear of losing his place, which her presence created.
I could not smother the puerile vanity of earthly grandeur which even in the Black Hole inflated me.
What life remains to it will be puerile and despicable.
It was by an equally puerile fiction that the Egyptians in their decadence consoled themselves for their weakness and disgrace.
In abnormal states of physical development, men are puerile or womanish.
Priestcraft diverts men's efforts towards objects which are puerile or hurtful.
There are many who, if they would but speak truly, could declare that ruin of conscience, brain and health, has resulted either from their willing faith in flimsy illusions or their weak connivance in puerile deception.
How silly to address such a puerile pretense to any one gifted with common sense!
How vain and puerile will appear all the declamation published on this subject!
While we show so much negligence in preserving our treasures, let us not be so unjust and so puerile as to lose our time in vain declamation against those who have bequeathed them to us.
He clearly shows us, in a parallel between his own times and those of the early ages of the Church, howpuerile and ill-founded was the desire, then so widely diffused, of exalting antiquity at the expense of the present time.
Pliny, perhaps the greatest of Roman scholars, adopting the sentiment of all the school of Epicurus, describes the belief in a future life as a form of madness, a puerile and a pernicious illusion.
The very amusements of the scholars took the form of a whimsical and puerile pedantry.
These were supposed to be played by spirits called Durward and Felisy, who, for some absolutely unconjecturable reason, liked spending the afternoon in these puerile idiocies.
That is to say, she will address herself to acquiring that practical competence, that high talent for puerile and chiefly mechanical expertness, which now sets man ahead of her in the labour market of the world.
In the midst of all the puerilerepressions and inhibitions that hedge them round, they continue to show a gipsy spirit.
But she never envies him his puerile ego; she never envies him his shoddy and preposterous soul.
His opposition of the individual to society is not that of a puerile anarchist to a no lesspuerile socialist.
Yet the murder of his benefactor must be condemned as an act of ingratitude and treason; and the churches which he dedicated to the name of St. Michael were a poor and puerile expiation of his guilt.
The Central Committee at the same time placarded a similar appeal--a puerile but generous illusion; and on this point the people of Paris entirely agreed with their mandatories.
Seventeen collectively declared against the institution of a Committee, which, they said, would create a dictatorship, and others pleaded the same motive, which waspuerile enough.
They remained silent, contenting themselves with puerile party meetings, from which Delescluze turned away as heart-broken as from the Assembly of the Paris mayors.
The three first volumes certainly disappointed us: chiefly from the perpetual and offensive vanity which they exhibited, and the number of details, many of them of a puerile or trifling character, which they contained.
Hence his biography exhibits an extraordinary mixture of lofty feelings with puerile simplicity, of depth of views with childishness, of divine philosophy with homely inclinations.
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