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Updated: June 18, 2025
"When we were in the flesh, the motions of sins did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death." And what does Paul say are the works of the flesh? "Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like."
From this fatal cause, together with the admiration of the monastic life, and the opinion of merit attending the preservation of chastity even in a married state, the royal families had been entirely extinguished in all the kingdoms except that of Wessex, and the emulations, suspicions, and conspiracies, which had formerly been confined to the princes of the blood alone, were now diffused among all the nobility in the several Saxon states.
"The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: ... hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, witchcraft, murders."
He was stirred beyond the lines of his former being sentiments, confusions of spirit quite new to him, were vaguely fermenting, he could not tell how; and school work, and prizes, and all the emulations of sixth form had somehow tamed and paled. The colour seemed to have gone out of them.
To this cause must be attributed all the mental distresses and all the bodily afflictions of the individual all the disturbances which prevent domestic enjoyment, the bickerings and jealousies of families with their various alliances all the animosities which agitate social life all the intestine broils, ambitious emulations, endless contentions, and opposing interests that distract a state all the melancholy wars that convulse nations and desolate empires, the record of which has stained the page of history in all ages with every particular, form, and mode of evil, discoverable in the world.
Magnolia's fat and highly painted parent poor bragging, good-natured, cunning, foolish Mrs. Macnamara, the widow joined, with a venemous wheeze in the laugh. Those who suppose that all this rancour was produced by mere feminine emulations and jealousy do these ladies of the ancient sept Macnamara foul wrong. Mrs.
'The more intimately I came to know him, after our marriage, the more did my soul separate itself from him, until the antipodes were not farther apart than we. So we lived on; I seeking a poor compensation in fashionable emulations and social triumphs; and he in grand business enterprises castles in the air perhaps.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
To this cause may be attributed all the mental distresses and all the bodily afflictions of individuals the disturbances which too often prevent domestic enjoyment the bickerings and jealousies of families with their various alliances the animosities that annoy social life the intestine broils, ambitious emulations, and endless contentions, that distract a state, with every other form and mode of evil.
It was the endeavour of Mr O'Brien and his friends finally to close this bitter chapter of Irish history by reconciling the ancient differences of the sects and inducing all Irishmen of good intent to meet upon a common platform in which there should be no rivalries except the noble emulations of men seeking the weal of the whole by the combined effort of all.
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