In this way, by a kind of distraction, when the movement of the sensitive appetite is enforced in respect of any passion whatever, the proper movement of the rational appetite or will must, of necessity, become remiss or altogether impeded.
Secondly, it may be taken as referring to the degree of participation by the subject, according as a virtue becomes intense or remiss in its subject.
And Shimei slept; a deep dissolving sleep-- Unjointed all his members in remiss Solution of the consciousness of life.
Thus then stretched out remiss upon the floor, As if unconscious body without soul, Lay Stephen slumbering there, beside those two So wakeful that each might in contrast seem Soul only, without body, soul disclad.
But take it in its best Light, it shews him as remiss a Menager in our Affairs as he naturally was in his own.
If they are so remiss as to oblige you to ask for anything, do it gently, and in a low tone, and thank a servant just as much as you would his master.
Their sexton had been remiss in lighting the lamps, and was arraigned for trial.
We pay you one hundred and twenty dollars a year for lighting these yere beautiful lamps which the church have so generously provided, and, sir, you have been remiss in your duty.
But, as statesmen, even these better aristocrats were not much less remiss and shortsighted than the average senators of the time.
But of these the party of the government, wretched and remiss as it was, necessarily retained the advantage in presence of the equally wretched and equally remiss opposition.
Hence the States were remiss in furnishing their quotas of men and money.
Behave better, ye remiss Monks, and thank Heaven for such an Abbot; or know at least that ye must and shall obey him.
An insurrection of the Monks: Behave better, yeremiss Monks, and thank Heaven for such an Abbot.
This made men careless in their opposition, and remiss in early precaution.
These abuses were less felt whilst the Pontificate drew riches from abroad, which in some measure counterbalanced the evils of their remiss and jobbish government at home.
We owe too much to the next generation to be remiss in this matter.
Society and Government, particularly local and State, have been remiss in not modernizing local marketing facilities.
On failure to please, they are beaten, or subjected to any penalty that presents itself, on the pretext that they were remiss in attention to religious instruction.
That a demand has been made to have the horses and mares brought over, as ordered, and that the viceroy has been remiss in this.
But Santos was remiss in the performance of the duty considered incumbent on all those who make large fortunes from the sugar trade in America--he failed to enter into matrimony with any lady, young or old, pretty or ugly.
Defn: In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
In his impatience, Henry complained that Hutton was remiss in his duties, and did not say enough about the Duchess in his despatches.
It was not only that he had spoken a word so idle when he ought to have been grave and wise, but that he felt that he had been altogether remiss in his duty as guide, philosopher, and friend.
The Cabin party was not, however, remiss in opposition on its side, and Maza made his opponents feel the force of his rod of power.
Granvelle, however, could find little satisfaction in the exertions of subordinates so long as men in high station were remiss in their duties.
The Marquis Berghen, he informed Philip, showed but little disposition to put down heresy, in Valenciennes, while Montigny was equally remiss at Tournay.
Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep That thus we die while remiss traitors sleep.
The government itself has been remiss in not throwing about them the protection of its authority.
This article also tells us that "the government has been remiss in not throwing around them the protection of its authority.
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