And he hateth their vanity that by unseasonable or immoderate commendations, endeavour to stir him up to pride, and so to bring him to be vile indeed, by proclaiming him to be excellent.
As it is ill studying in a crowd, and unseasonable before a multitude to be at secret prayer (except some short ejaculations); so is it as unmeet a season for holy meditation.
And think not that either riches or poverty will excuse it, when even princes are restrained so much as from unseasonable eating, Eccles.
You must also know what subject is then most seasonable for your thoughts, and refuse even an unseasonable good.
If a melancholy person crack his brain with immoderate, unseasonable endeavours, he will but disable himself for all.
Sometimes the tempter doth call you off to other duty, and puts in unseasonable motions to that which in its time is good; he interrupts prayer by meditation, he sets seeming truth against love, and peace, and concord.
You will sure think it an unsuitable and unseasonable thing for the calamitous to be proud.
I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night, appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.
Here on sunshiny noons in the good Saint Martin's summer the old gran'dad loved to sit, blithe and hearty, chirping away the soft unseasonable December days.
Macedonia Broken Up The senate had resolved that the peril, which the unseasonable gentleness of Flamininus had brought on Rome, should not recur.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century it was considered important on account of the unseasonable hours of attendance that they should reside "in and about" the Post Office.
The rest of the building was devoted to the use of the Post Office servants, who, owing to theirunseasonable hours of attendance, were required to live in the office itself or else in its immediate vicinity.
Vadomair [19] was the only prince of the Alemanni whom he esteemed or feared and while the subtle Barbarian affected to observe the faith of treaties, the progress of his arms threatened the state with an unseasonable and dangerous war.
These healing and temperate measures seemed to concur with the timorous disposition of the sovereign of the East: but, on this occasion alone, Valens was brave; and his unseasonable bravery was fatal to himself and to his subjects.
The vigorous youth pursued, like Apollo, the object of his desires; and the blushing maid was warned, by the fate of Daphne, to shun the folly of unseasonable coyness.
But he often takes a false measure of their importance; and his superfluous prolixity is disagreeably balanced by his unseasonable brevity.
The course of genuine history is interrupted by a most unseasonable chasm in the text of Ammianus.
The historian of the Gothic war loses time and space, by anunseasonable recapitulation of the ancient inroads of the Barbarians.
The coasts will be blockaded by the ships of the emperor and his allies; and at this moment men's fears are aggravated by the unseasonable weather throughout the summer, and the failure of the crops.
A more untoward, unseasonable request the Fates could not have put into his lips.
His victory over his guests had in much softened his heart towards his relations; but he still felt bitterly aggrieved at Mrs. Fairfield's unseasonable intrusion, and his pride was greatly chafed by the boldness of Leonard.
This affectation of unseasonable wit displeased the Imperial lover: he turned aside in disgust; Icasia concealed her mortification in a convent; and the modest silence of Theodora was rewarded with the golden apple.
But these powers were under the command of Belisarius; and, as he was conscious of their superior merit, he permitted the Barbarians to surprise him at an unseasonable hour.
His death, [16] though in the extreme period of old age, was unseasonable and premature, since his genius alone could have repaired the last and fatal error of his life.
The threatening language he had heard last night, and the unseasonable hour of Ignatius's journey, filled him with apprehensions for the event.
And, last year, so repulsive and unseasonable was the spring, that there seemed to be a virtual "withdrawal" of the season.
The low flying of the swallows betokens rain, as well as any unseasonable dancing of midges in the evening.
Excuse was of no avail, but he must urge the proposal with unseasonable importunity, until Grynee restrained his forwardness by checking him aloud.
It happens, however, sometimes, that it is necessary to withstand our colleagues; but we never do so unless they either compel us by their unseasonable importunity, or some weightier consideration demands our interference.
When I reflect how much, at so unseasonable a time, these intestine quarrels divide and tear us asunder, I almost entirely lose courage.
Such unseasonable trifling as this I swallow, nevertheless, in silence.
Add to this what I have already said, that the time is unseasonable for consulting Luther, because his anger has scarce settled down from the heat of contention.
When we all thought this particular time very unseasonable for discussing the points in dispute among the brethren, the Lord has surpassed our utmost expectation.
He was more troubled than words can express, and cursed his unseasonable curiosity, by which his dear princess had lost a treasure, that was so precious, and so valued by her.
Jaaffier," said he to the grand vizier, "what excuse have you for the door's being open at this unseasonable hour?
You may guess, gentlemen, how vexed I was at having fallen into the hands of such a prattling, impertinent fellow; what an unseasonable adventure was it for a lover preparing for an interview with his mistress!
Bad weather had now fairly set in, accompanied by a most unseasonabledegree of cold.
But is it a fair inference from a jest on this unseasonable lamentation, that he was then an enemy to monarchy, either in this or in any other country?
Secondly, whether the time he had chosen was so veryunseasonable as to make his exercise of a parliamentary right productive of ill effects on his friends or his country?
Things tend naturally to what you would have, if you would let them alone, and not by an unseasonable activity lose the influences of your good star, which promiseth you everything that is prosperous.
Such an extraordinary courage at this unseasonable time, to say no more, is too dangerous a virtue to be commended.
If poor distressed souls would observe this order, they might save themselves the trouble of an unprofitable labour under these unseasonable and soul-sinking doubts.
They met their beloved ministers in private places, and at the most unseasonable hours.
Such a Mirth as this is always unseasonablein a Critick, as it rather prejudices the Reader than convinces him, and is capable of making a Beauty, as well as a Blemish, the Subject of Derision.
The tree matured its growth and withstood the winter nicely, but suffered, similar to the parent, from the April, 1953, unseasonable weather.
For example, an unseasonable warm spell occurred in Columbus during the latter part of the first week in April of the current year.
He who drinks at an unseasonablehour ought not to complain of the vintner.
The elk answered: "Sagacious, long-eared associate, what anunseasonable proposal is this?
For which reason, it would be a very proper work, if some well-wisher to human society would consider the terms upon which people meet in public places, in order to prevent the unseasonable declamations which we meet with there.
