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Deputy-governor of Italy during Cæsar's absence in Spain , second in command in the decisive battle of Pharsalia , and again deputy-governor of Italy while Cæsar was in Africa , Antony was now inferior in power only to the dictator himself, and eagerly seized the opportunity of indulging in the most extravagant excesses of luxurious licentiousness excesses which Cicero depicted in the "Philippics" with all the elaborate eloquence of political hatred.
The trouble may also arise from injuries and many other accidental causes, besides masturbation and venereal excesses. [G] Lallemand and Wilson, page
He oeconomizes with his vices, and indulges in all the excesses of fashionable life, with the same system of order that accumulates the fortune of a Dutch miser.
We are united in determination that this war shall not be followed by another interim which leads to new disaster that we shall not repeat the tragic errors of ostrich isolationism that we shall not repeat the excesses of the wild twenties when this Nation went for a joy ride on a roller coaster which ended in a tragic crash. When Mr.
In some men of warm religious feeling the Revolution excited a fervent spirit of Radicalism. However much they deplored the excesses and horrors which had taken place in France, they did not cease to contemplate with passionate hope the tumultuous upheaval of all old institutions, trusting that out of the ruins of the past a new and better future would derive its birth.
He is merely shifting the burden from his individual self to his collective self, and in so doing he loses more than he gains. Thus there is always a sound core in that Individualism which has been preached so long and practised so energetically, especially in English-speaking lands, however great the abuse involved in its excesses.
Revolutionary France merely adapted to new conditions the political organization and policy to which Frenchmen had been accustomed; and the most serious indictment to be made against it is that its excesses prevented it from dispensing with the absolutism which social disorder and unwarranted foreign aggression always necessitate.
Ah! if I could speak aloud to those who, when passing, cast looks of pity upon me, I should say to the young man whose excesses have dimmed his sight before he is old, 'What have you done with your eyes? To the slothful man, who with difficulty drags along his enervated mass of flesh, 'What have you done with your feet? To the old man, who is punished for his intemperance by the gout, 'What have you done with your hands? To all, 'What have you done with the days God granted you, with the faculties you should have employed for the good of your brethren? If you cannot answer, bestow no more of your pity upon the old soldier maimed in his country's cause; for he he at least can show his scars without shame."
Profligacy was, like the oak leaf on the twenty-ninth of May, the badge of a cavalier and a high churchman. Decency was associated with conventicles and calves' heads. Grave prelates were too much disposed to wink at the excesses of a body of zealous and able allies who covered Roundheads and Presbyterians with ridicule.
After its passionate and blood-thirsty life, the colony was sinking to sleep, not from satiety nor exhaustion, for the same race was holding its orgies in other countries, but from inability to gather fuel for its excesses. A long list of insignificant governors is the history of the island for another century.
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