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He took what suited his mind best, and paid very little attention to the rules of sermonizing; he was in this respect a law unto himself, and the favour with which his humble ministrations were received was a sufficient excuse for him.
Practically, we need Kant's kind of sermonizing; we need to exalt abstract goodness and resist the appeal of immediate and sensuous goods. So Kant has been popular with earnest men more interested in right living than in theory. But as a theorist he is hopelessly inadequate. It is true that we admire good will without consideration of the effects it produces, and even when it leads to disaster.
I feel as if I ought to follow these two personages of my sermonizing story until they come together or separate, to fade, to wither, perhaps to die, at last, of something like what the doctors call heart-failure, but which might more truly be called heart-starvation. When I say die, I do not mean necessarily the death that goes into the obituary column.
And what was the sense of accepting a challenge to a losing battle? 'I want a man who can fight like the Devil. Well, that was what the whole world wanted always had needed and wanted; and he and hundreds of other Government fellows were applicants for just such a fighting job. What was it that comical old sermonizing duffer had ranted about? Oh, yes!
Again and again was the goblet drained and replenished, until the maddening spell of intoxication was upon them both. Hurrah! away with religion, and sermonizing, and conscience! Bacchus is the only true divinity, and at his rosy shrine let us worship, and pledge him in brimming cups of the bright nectar, the drink of the gods! Then came obscene revels and libidinous acts.
This wise lady was not given to sermonizing, but talked in a confidential, motherly fashion, telling them of her hopes and expectations for the school year lying before them, explaining the few rules it had been found necessary to lay down for the governing of so many active little bodies, and filling each girlish heart with inspiration and a desire to win this dear woman's approval.
When she held The Crossways she had at least a bit of solid footing: now gone. An adventuress without an idea in her head: witness her dullard, The Man of Two Minds, at his work of sermonizing his mistress.
He had no thought that the youth intended to show him mercy, but believed he was indulging in a little preliminary sermonizing so to speak before claiming his scalp for the ridge-pole of his wigwam.
Another cause of the popularity of Euphues is its sermonizing. The world loves to hear good advice. The world is not nervously anxious to follow the advice, but it understands the edification that comes by preaching. With many persons, to have heard a sermon is almost equivalent to having practiced the virtues taught in the sermon. Churches are generally accepted as evidences of civilization.
The mother understood, with her ready feelings, what agony this man must be undergoing, but his pain awoke no sympathetic response in her. "Well, of course, if that's the case, then it's better for you to go," she said, in order not to offend him by silence. Andrey came in from the kitchen, and said, smiling: "Well, are you sermonizing, eh?"
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