He made the sign of the cross of God, He knew the Roman prayer, But he had unreason in his heart Because of the gods that were.
Reason and unreason seemed to have entered into a covenant to shatter the gigantic structure of Talmudic Judaism.
The state of the German Jews, among whom the battle against unreason began, was more satisfactory than that of the Polish Jews.
When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth?
With a curious, obstinate unreasonshe knew Bess had died like all the rest; yet she had been so sure Bess could not die.
But she glanced down into such a forlorn, wistful face, that her heart was touched, a not unkindly heart, though it had been bitter and obdurate with the unreason of youth.
He graciously forgave her, having already arrived at the mature conclusion that females were unaccountable folk whose excursions into unreason should be regarded by man with pitying indulgence.
Art, on the contrary, as often hugs unreason for fear of losing its inspiration, and forgets that it is itself a rational principle of creation and order.
Rational poetry is possible and would be infinitely more beautiful than the other; but the charm of unreason, if unreason seem charming, it certainly could not preserve.
Visible signs of such unreason soon appear in the relentless and hideous aspect which life puts on; for those instruments which somehow emancipate themselves from their uses soon become hateful.
The sparkling Winter gave no heed When ordered by Unreason To bring the early peas on.
Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be-- Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth, With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth.
But he and the others wrought immensely towards that liberation alike from unreason and from bondage which must precede any great improvement of human things.
It is only another instance of how unreason in one extreme tends to bring about unreason in the other.
In the North the bitterness and unreason of limited groups of anti-slavery people excited the anger of men who saw in their ways and speeches continual sources of irritation, which made all compromise difficult.
To have set you free from Aunt Ann's morbid unreason and the sorrow of Uncle Jim's condition would have been enough to repay my taking over responsibilities which Aunt Ann should have borne.
I wallowed in the unreasonof a man vainly seeking to justify himself.
He blamed the check suit, the ill-will of the company, the unreason of Madame Coinçon.
Here I find God: what power less than His could fancy such wild inconsequence andunreason as flies out of this anguish, and Love out of this Murder.
The day had been one of continual friction, and Dora's irritable pettishness hard to bear, because it had now lost that childish unreason which had always induced Ethel's patience, for Dora had lately put away all her ignorant immaturities.
The science of Einstein might rather be called following our unreason as far as it will go, seeing whether the brain will crack under the conception that space is curved, or that parallel straight lines always meet.
There is something ofunreason in the sight which affects the eye as well as the reason.
And the science of Freud would make it essentially impossible to say how far our reason orunreason does go, or where it stops.
But she dared not make any such suggestion, and Lady Isabel, looking at her dismayed face, laughed a little as though at the unreason of a child.
Alex unwisely, urged by some mysterious unreason to provoke the answer which she already anticipated with resentment.
The door was thrown open with a shout which brought up the Abbot and his brethren, when the Abbot of Unreason entered.
Mr George Cruikshank depicts the entrance of the Abbot of Unreason to the church of St Mary's.
The childish, impossible unreason of the suspicion against her completed in Sophia's mind the ruin of the reputation of the French people as a sensible race.
And now she had been guilty of precisely the same unreason as that with which she had reproached Cyril!
The fear, to be sure, was absurd, but in the lurid lexicon of Unreason there is no such word as "absurd.
But although, even in the morning of the world, there were earnest seekers after lies, the pursuit of ignorance has never been carried on with such unswerving fidelity and with so much lovely unreason as is the case to-day.
But the very things I am arguing against are the unreason and self-will, which being constantly pampered, do not appreciate reason or just sway.
Besides, is there not a force in ill-humour andunreason to which you constantly see the wisest bend?
Women may talk the greatest unreason out of doors, and nobody kindly informs them that it is unreason.
The body-guards of the Abbot of Unreason were all arrayed in gaudy colors bedecked with gold or silver lace, with embroidery and silken scarfs, the fringed ends of which floated in the wind.
In Scotland, the Abbot of Unreason was frequently enacted by persons of the highest rank; and James V.
In Scotland, the rule of the Abbot of Unreason appears to have been still less limited in point of time; and he seems to have held his court and made his processions at any period of the year which pleased him.
That's the crowning point of unreasonin the business!
I suppose the Lord Chancellor, and the Vice Chancellors, and the whole Chancery battery of great guns would be infinitely astonished by such unreason and injustice in one of their suitors," pursued my guardian.
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