Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 9, 2025
Libertinism was rare in those thinly-peopled regions from which he came. The vices of great cities were scarce known or practised in the rough towns of the American continent.
No! certainly not, Their interest was threatened, and their craft in danger, and the consequence was, that the Atheist or Disciple of Nature, has been abused with every scurrilous epithet, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Atheism is stigmatized with having "opened a wide door for libertinism, destroying the social and moral compact; and striking a deadly blow at religion.
Excuse me if, on this point, I put more faith in her words than in her mother's." "How could she have told you so, when you have not seen her for several days?" "I saw her last night, and she swore to me before the crucifix in the chapel that she would be my wife." "Oh, scandal; oh, libertinism! But what is this?
The hardships of The Desert are the greatest safeguards against indulgence in, or the pleasures of, an emasculating sensuality amongst the Touaricks, whilst the ascetic habits of the Maraboutish city of Ghadames sufficiently protect that people from the general indulgence of libertinism, and unnatural crimes. Intoxication, or habitual drunkenness, is, of course, unknown in these Saharan regions.
If in the "Chastisement of Mansour" he bodies forth the consequences of unbridled Libertinism, in the "Grip of Desire" he demonstrates the evils attendant on a life of forced Celibacy. In the first we have the autocratic Reign of the Flesh, in the second the Subjection of legitimate Carnal Desire. The union of the female to the male is a law of Nature, as solid as the granite bases of the world.
"Why, how is this, Parozzi?" cried Memmo as he entered, a wretch whose every feature exhibited marks of that libertinism to which his life had been dedicated; "I can scarce recover myself from my astonishment. For Heaven's sake, is this report true? Did you really hire Matteo to murder the Doge's niece?"
Wycherley borrowed Alceste, and turned him, we quote the words of so lenient a critic as Mr. Leigh Hunt, into "a ferocious sensualist, who believed himself as great a rascal as he thought everybody else." The surliness of Moliere's hero is copied and caricatured. But the most nauseous libertinism and the most dastardly fraud are substituted for the purity and integrity of the original.
Nothing is more despicable than the libertinism of mind that the youth of our days make a show of. Your words make me shiver. Am I to reply to them by proofs out of the Holy Scriptures and the writings of the fathers? Shall I make you hear God speaking to the patriarchs and to the prophets: Si locutus est Abraham et semini ejus in saecula?
The successive steps of his descent from mild resentment to malignant fury, libertinism and crime, and the reaction of his own increasing depravity upon his own mind, are described in a manner which is fairly interesting from a literary point of view, whatever a modern expert criminologist might think of it.
So we played at cross purposes, each with a different motive, and gradually, as I came to recognise how much baseness and brutality there is in mere libertinism, how poor and paltry an animal man becomes when he serves himself and his passions only, my attraction for him diminished, I grew to realise that I could never raise him out of the mud, because he had lived by choice too long in it, I could never persuade him to be true, even to himself, because he found the ways of falsehood and deceit more amusing.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking