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Shamefacedness, for instance, is no virtue, still a man is praised for being shamefaced: for in these too the one is denominated the man in the mean state, the other in the excess; the Dumbfoundered, for instance, who is overwhelmed with shame on all and any occasions: the man who is in the defect, i.e. who has no shame at all in his composition, is called Shameless: but the right character Shamefaced.
This may dispose me, perhaps, for the reception of truth, but helps me not to it: that must come from proofs and arguments, and light arising from the nature of things themselves, and not from my shamefacedness, ignorance, or error. Above, contrary, and according to Reason.
It was not confusion that kept them silent, for they both felt that parting was near, and there is no shamefacedness in a sad parting. She moved automatically towards her uncle's chair against the writing-table, and Will, after drawing it out a little for her, went a few paces off and stood opposite to her.
For we know that merit, standing alone, stands generally naked also." I was much inclined to tell him all the story, but a shamefacedness came over me. I did not know then how many owed all their advancement to a woman's influence, and my manly pride disdained to own the obligation.
So they all went, and enjoyed it very much, one and all, as they found on comparing notes around the bright little fire, which Nelly had kept burning, against their return. "Only," said Rosie, with a little shamefacedness, "I am not sure that Graeme liked me to dance quite so much." Graeme was not sure either, but she did not think this the best time to speak about it. So she did not.
His features, in repose, had a more firm and manly cast than Catharine had thought, who, having generally seen them fluctuating between shamefacedness and apprehension of her displeasure, had been used to connect with them some idea of imbecility. "He looks very stern," she said; "if he should be angry? And then when he awakes we are alone if I should call Dorothy if I should wake my father?
With no shamefacedness, no foolish consciousness, she went down among them with Morris' ring upon her finger. She would as soon have been ashamed to say that an angel had spoken to her. Perhaps she was not a modern school-girl, perhaps she was as old-fashioned as Miss Prudence herself. "I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well." Goldsmith. "Prudence!"
The attire of an harlot is too frequently in our day the attire of professors; a vile thing, and argueth much wantonness and vileness of affections. If those that give way to a wanton eye, wanton words, and immodest apparel, be not whores, &c., in their hearts, I know not what to say. Doth a wanton eye argue shamefacedness? Doth wanton talk argue chastity?
He tells us that he used to be laughed at for talking as though he had pudding in his mouth. Yet he became one of the greatest orators the world has seen. He joined the church merely because he was expected to do so. It was only "pride and shamefacedness" that prevented him from expressing his doubts as to whether he was a Christian.
"And what," asked her father, "have you seen in the crystal, child of my heart?" He looked up at me with some little shamefacedness, or so I imagined. "I am a dry old man of the law," he went on, "dusty of heart as these black books up yonder books not of magic but of fact, of crime and pain and penalty.
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