The contrary is rather true: What dutifulness tries to perform without ability, regardful generosity receives as having the merit, though not the power, of complete performance.
But in Africa, also, there are many peoples who have been described as regardful of truth and hostile to falsehood.
In every religion we may distinguish between two elements: a belief, and a regardful attitude towards the object of this belief.
The assumed authors of painful or alarming events became objects of worship because they were conceived, not as mechanical causes, but as personal agencies which might be influenced by the regardful attitude of the worshipper.
Pained, however, as I was, with his efforts of gaining a complete admission, which he was so regardful as to manage by gentle degrees, I took care not to complain.
Also in sickness, you are to be tenderly regardful of each other; and not to be sparing of any costs or pains, by which the health of each other may be restored, or your souls confirmed, and your comforts cherished.
England, from simple song, lovingly regardful of sacred story and legend, through the chant of philosophy, to the full-toned lyric of adoration.
Regardful of the friendly dues I owe, I to the glorious dead, for ever dear!
And can you distrust him, that is so punctually regardful of your least concernments?
He hath perfect wisdom, to know what is best: he hath perfect goodness, and therefore will be most regardful of his subjects' good, and will put no evil into his laws.
God's love may be trusted to be no less regardfulof his people's cry than a selfish man's love of ease would be.
No one hears a word from your mouth unbecoming the character of a polite gentleman; and I shall always be very regardful of what falls from mine.
The king possessed of wisdom should put forth his prowess, regardful of time and place.
Vedas, and the gratification of the Pitris, as also regardful services unto the preceptors--these are called the austerest of penances.
The latter are always regardful of roads that are unfavourable to them (owing to the presence of the king's watch).
As men regardful of the tender interests of humanity, we look with grief at scenes which might have stained our land with civil blood.
Nor were women a whit more regardful of the proprieties of expression.
Regardful of this fact, Tatsu had built a roaring fire in the library to cheer Hayden's home-coming.
He accepts the division of the world of mind into Intellect, which concerns itself with Truth; Taste, which informs us of the Beautiful; and the Moral Sense, which is regardful of Duty.
But if we may not probe too deeply into primal causes, we may still be regardful of the effects.
There was a young woman among the seniors in Carroll College who was old in a certain brilliant hardness of mind--a young woman with a cynical outlook on life, and who was not always regardful of her seed-sowing in fresher hearts.
