But of all the pious puerilities on record, probably the worst are ascribed to the rabbis.
Had these pious puerilitiesoccurred in any other book, they would have been laughed to scorn; but being in the Bible, they must be credited on pain of eternal damnation.
Such were the puerilities of the Sabbath Law among the Jews.
The professor of slang could degrade the conduct of the soldiers on board the Birkenhead; he could make the choruses from Samson Agonistes seem like the Cockney puerilities of a comic news-sheet.
But the chief source whence these ineffable puerilities are derived, and charged on the contemporaries of our Lord, and through them on the writers of the New Testament, is the Talmud.
Where are the ineffable puerilities found in these writings even hinted at in those of St. Paul?
This line of thought brought up at every step some phase of Plato and Aristotle," said the professor, and we are thankful that he did not resurrect any more of the puerilities of Athenian ignorance.
Even the moderate French critic Faguet becomes enraged at the puerilitiesof the Russian.
No wonder that those who preceded me have indulged in puerilitiesto swell out their books.
The scholastic philosophy which some ridicule, in spite of its puerilities and sophistries and syllogisms, preserved the theology of the Middle Ages, perhaps of the Fathers.
Notwithstanding many affectations andpuerilities it is still readable to Americans.
I protest against the puerilities and absurdities which have been put into his mouth, and I entreat him not to relax in his generous efforts.
But defeated and discomfited as he was, he entered Cairo in triumph with banners flying, drums beating, and all the rest of the idle fanfaronade and pompous puerilities associated with triumphal entries.
The second and third books of the Elegies,[9] though they show some technical advance, and are without the puerilities which here and there occur in the Cynthia, are on the whole immensely inferior to it in interest and charm.
The spirit of New Japan is indifferent to religion; but this is not due to an inherently non-religious or irreligious nature, but to the empty externalism and shallow puerilities of the only religions they know.
The Japanese were weary of Buddhistic puerilities and transcendental doctrines that led nowhere.
Frankly, is it not humiliating to the nineteenth century, that it should be destined to transmit to future ages the example of such puerilities seriously and gravely practiced?
But as it falls upon the strong sense to act, and on the puerilities only to preach, the man comes out, upon the whole, as a great and able governor.
Very interesting is the exhibition presented to us of this powerful intellect, breaking out in flashes of strong sense, and relapsing again into the puerilities of the sect.
From the puerilities and errors with which we have thus been occupied, we learn that there is a definite mode of progress for the mind of man; from the history of later times we shall find that it is ever in the same direction.
But the general character of Socialism is very whimsical, and I cannot help asking myself how long such a tissue of puerilities can continue in vogue.
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