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In this, as in previous works, he rides his hobby, which was a strange perversion of patristic notions, to the death; and a few years later he returned to the charge in one of the wildest, craziest books that ever was written by human pen.
Down underneath his mind, controlling utterly its processes, was a ganglion of instincts that were utterly outraged by the things she was saying to him. It was they and not his intelligence she had to fight. She must be patient, as gentle as she could, but she must make him listen. "You've got my friendship!" he cried out now. "It's a grotesque perversion of the facts to say you haven't."
I have instantly communicated with every Bahá’í center in both East and West, and urgently requested the faithful followers of the Faith in every land to protest vehemently against this glaring perversion of justice, to assert firmly and courteously the spiritual rights of the Bahá’í Community to the ownership of this venerated house, to plead for British fairness and justice, and to pledge their unswerving determination to insure the security of this hallowed spot.
I am sure this was a dreadful perversion, but I forgave it on the score of that exaltation of which I have spoken. The things she said, and the way she said them, come back to me, and I thought that if she looked as handsome as that when she preached virtue to Mr. Tester, it was no wonder he liked the sermon to be going on perpetually.
To quote from these parables in the defense of usury is as flagrant a perversion of the truth as the famous quotation to prove that Paul encouraged theft. "Let him that stole, steal." The lessons of these parables are in entire harmony with the law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets and Nehemiah.
But by what perversion could suspicion frown upon the ties between two married women, both living in the greatest harmony with their respective husbands, especially when both became mothers and were so devoted to their offspring?
When you marry, be sure to ask, 'what are your politics, Jeremiah?" His diversion answered his purpose. "I never would marry a man named Jeremiah." "I recommend a well-trained widower." "I prefer to attend to my husband's education myself. I should like a man who is single-minded when I marry him." "Well, for perversion of English you are quite unequalled.
Besides, this perversion itself may often be disease, bad habits transmitted, like drunkenness, or some hereditary misfortune, as with this Elsie we were talking about." The younger minister was completely mystified. At every step he made towards the Doctor's recognized theological position, the Doctor took just one step towards his.
But the Commons, whether they distrusted the patriotism of the Lords, or doubted the legal guilt of the prisoner, had already resolved to proceed by attainder. hearing the evidence against him, together with his answers. The reader will not fail to observe this flagrant perversion of the forms of justice. It was not as in the case of the earl of Strafford.
Strongly attached to what he regarded as the spirit of Christianity, he looked with indifference on rites, names, and forms of ecclesiastical polity, and was by no means disposed to be severe even on infidels and heretics whose lives were pure, and whose errors appeared to be the effect rather of some perversion of the understanding than of the depravity of the heart.
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