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That on this point he should have chosen to be prudent; that after his recent experience he should have preferred not to reopen a career of agitation among a people who have shown themselves so unprepared for parliamentary liberty, is what we do not know that we have either the right or the cause to deem blameworthy.”
The chief points may be thus enumerated. It is thought, I. That Self-Control and Endurance belong to the class of things good and praiseworthy, while Imperfect Self-Control and Softness belong to that of things low and blameworthy.
Hum, hum! and has this gluttony shown itself by more blameworthy actions than usual is it simply the same as last month?" "The same as last month, father." "Yes, yes, pastry between meals," I sighed gravely. "Yes, father, and almost always a glass of Capri or of Syracuse after it." "Or of Syracuse after it. Well, let that pass, let that pass."
Sylla, a profuse debauchee, endeavored to restore sober living amongst the citizens; Lysander, temperate himself, filled Sparta with the luxury he disregarded. So that both were blameworthy, the one for raising himself above his own laws, the other for causing his fellow citizens to fall beneath his own example. He taught Sparta to want the very things which he himself had learned to do without.
But the problem of the persistence of war has somehow escaped atheists and rationalists, just as it has eluded theologians and revivalists. We may admit that the clergy are more blameworthy than the orators of rationalism. If the teachings of Jesus Christ are to be applied to the art of war, then the art of war is doomed to extinction.
When the hour shall have come for settling accounts and it will not long delay we shall have forgotten much of what we have suffered and a blameworthy pity will creep over us and cloud our eyes. This is the moment, therefore, for us to frame our inexorable resolution.
In this she resembled others of her time who were led away by an enthusiasm which was often productive of noble deeds. Like her, many women played heroic or blameworthy parts in the fierce struggle.
The two intemperances may be equally blameworthy, but they are not equally offensive to the community. Yet for some reason over- eating is considered the mark of the beast, and over-drinking the mark of rather a fine fellow. The poets and other gentlemen who have written so much romantic nonsense about "good red wine" and "good brown ale" are responsible for this.
Now, though it is irregular and blameworthy in man to justify the wicked, because he cannot provide and clothe him with a justifying righteousness, yet it is glorious, and for ever worthy of praise, for God to do it: because it is in his power, not only to forgive, but to make a man righteous, even then when he is a sinner, and to justify him while he is ungodly.
The taking of Algiers was received like an ordinary piece of news, and the tricolour flag was regretted as deeply as ever. For the platform and the press but especially the press, the mightiest instrument of destruction of modern times had done their work. The days of the Government of the Restoration were numbered. Not that it had been blameworthy.
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