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The hero of Cervantes argued not the point with more seriousness, nor had he more faith, or more to say on the powers of necromancy in dishonouring his deeds, or on Dulcinea's name, in shedding lustre upon them, than my father had on those of Trismegistus or Archimedes, on the one hand or of Nyky and Simkin on the other.
But the sports thus licensed assumed a very different appearance, so soon as the Protestant doctrines began to prevail; and the license which their forefathers had exercised in mere gaiety of heart, and without the least intention of dishonouring religion by their frolics, were now persevered in by the common people as a mode of testifying their utter disregard for the Roman priesthood and its ceremonies.
At the same time, by developing in him the workman, they thought to give him a better chance against further dishonouring and degrading his race, than his wretched father had ever had: the breed of Lestranges must, they said, be searched back for generations to find an honest man in it.
She was wicked, base; while he lived she had misprised him; and this was her abiding punishment, that not even repentance could purge her heart of dishonouring thoughts, that her love for him now could never be stainless though washed with daily tears. "'He that is unjust, let him be unjust still. Must that be true, Father of all mercies? I misjudged him, and it is too late for atonement.
It was true that every now and then some remark would reveal in him a less than attractive commonness of thinking; and that his notions in religion were of the crudest, for he regarded it as a set of doctrines not a few of them very dishonouring to God; yet was the man in a high sense a true man.
In dishonouring yourself you are dishonouring me. I am angry with you, Paul. Do not let me be angry with you again."
He might have said anything bring some dishonouring charge against me what do I know? By his dress he was no common robber. He seemed to belong to the better classes. What could I say? He was an Italian I am a foreigner. Of course, I have my passport, and there is our consul but to be arrested, dragged at night to the police office like a criminal!" He shuddered.
"A horde of Albanians, from fifteen to twenty thousand in number, burst from the Pashalic of Scodra upon the peaceful inhabitants of the Pashalic of Vrania, committing the greatest horrors, burning down villages, and putting the inhabitants to the torture, in order to get money, and dishonouring all the handsomest women.
The wonder indeed is, on the theory of natural selection, that more cases of the want of absolute perfection have not been observed. p. 472. We think that the real temper of this whole speculation as to nature itself may be read in these few lines. It is a dishonouring view of nature.
Had not his own eyes convinced him of the horrid truth, he could have given credit to no other testimony, that a brother, whom he had always treated with the utmost affection, and whose fortune it had been his care to promote, should have dared to harbour even the most distant wish of dishonouring his wife.
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