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So the prophet turns round indignantly, and asks what can be the end of such a welter and carnival of vice and immorality, and beseeches his contemporaries to mend their ways by bethinking themselves of what their course led to. But we may dismiss the immediate application of the words for the sake of looking at the general principle which underlies them. It is a very familiar and well-worn one.
When one hears so much of the profligacy of actors and actresses, and that they are all such a very wicked lot, it is pleasant to think of this couple, in an age proverbial for its immorality, in a city where the highest in rank set an example of shameless licence, living their quiet, pure, artistic life, respected and beloved by all that knew them. Betterton had few physical advantages.
But really no lady could possibly find herself in a situation more false than I am afraid there is only one word, open immorality, and er to put yourself right with society there is one thing, and only one, left for you to er do. I I speak for the family, and I " "Sugar?" Alice questioned the mother of curates. "Yes, please." "One lump, or two?" "Two, please."
And where is the degree of vice or immorality which shall deprive the citizen of the right to supplicate for a boon, or to pray for mercy? Where is such a law to be found? It does not belong to the most abject despotism. There is no absolute monarch on earth who is not compelled, by the constitution of his country, to receive the petitions of his people, whosoever they may be.
He owed something to his position as Master of the Hounds a tradition that oughtn't to be messed about. There it all was: not a word about radical morality or immorality; but the tradition of Family, the Commons, Master of the Hounds! But there was another letter. He did not recognise the handwriting, and the envelope had a black edge.
There had been hideous immorality in the Corinthian Church. Paul had struck at it with heat and force, sternly commanding the exclusion of the sinner.
Lynmouth never learnt anything; so Ernest felt his own function in the household a perfectly useless one; and he was always on the eve of a declaration that he couldn't any longer put up with this, that, or the other 'gross immorality' in which Lynmouth was actively or passively encouraged by his father and mother.
That there are no actions which by reason of their beneficial consequences are always and invariably moral, might be too much to affirm; but I have no hesitation in saying that there are thousands, the morality or immorality of which their results remaining the same depends absolutely on their motives.
To listen to cases of the most shocking kind; cases of low immorality; cases of a kind, of a nature of a a class that you are not supposed to know anything about. Really, Stephen! . . . She was drawing away her hand in indignation. But Stephen held it tight, as she said very sweetly: 'That is just it, Auntie.
An accusation of immorality is accepted without examination when brought against eminent persons who can no longer defend themselves, and to raise a doubt of its truth passes as a sign of a weak understanding. So let it be. It is certain that Caesar's contemporaries spread rumors of a variety of intrigues, in which they said that he was concerned. It is probable that some were well founded.
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