Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 16, 2025
A book which fairly shows us such a life is not of less value because it also shows us much that we regret and condemn. Mr. Robertson was brought up not only in the straitest traditions of the Evangelical school, but in the heat of its controversial warfare.
The Puritan of Massachusetts was, at this time, the straitest of his sect, an unflinching egotist, who regarded himself as eminently his "brother's keeper," whose constant business it was to save his fellow-men from sin and error, sitting in judgment upon their belief and actions with the authority of a divinely appointed high priest.
Both father and son had belonged to the straitest sect of Anglo-Catholicism; their tender devotion to each other had touched with beauty the austerity and seclusion of their lives. Yet at times Hoddon Grey had sheltered large gatherings gatherings of the high Puseyite party in the English Church, both lay and clerical.
If her evidence may be accepted, it amounted in her day to a bigotry as implacable as that of the straitest sect of the Scotch Presbyterians a generation ago. She tells an anecdote to the following effect: A New York tailor sold, on a Sunday, some clothes to a sailor whose ship was on the point of sailing.
To this hour, knowing all her life as I do, I can only regard her as a splendid achievement of nature, convincing even when at the most awkward tangents with the general sense and the straitest interpretation of life; convincing even in those other and later incidents, which showed her to be acting not so much by impulse as by the law of her nature.
These operations had thrown him into a peculiarly intimate business contact of one sort and another with various financiers with whom I did not deem it expedient that the Superintendent of Insurance, while such, should have any intimate and secret money-making relations. Moreover, the gentleman in question represented the straitest sect of the old-time spoils politicians.
Avoid love, by pursuing other pleasures: love has never been favourable to you. The straitest ties of blood could not secure any one from his detraction. His nephew, the Count de Guiche, was a victim: he had in truth, offended the Count de Grammont, by having supplanted him in the affection of the Countess de Fiesque, whom he loved afterwards for the space of twelve years.
They were Calvinists of the straitest sect, and made all their opinions a bond of union. In this they were like the Baptists, but essentially dissimilar to the Disciples.
Still there remains the contemptuous sneer, the scorn, the malice of the soul, against Christ and his spiritual seed. Not many years since the two daughters of an evangelical clergyman, a D.D., came out, from strong and irresistible conviction, and united with one of the straitest sects of Dissenters the Plymouth Brethren.
An English gentlewoman, were she one of the rabid 'Saints' that most straitest sect of Protestants that would leave their whole family to starve if the said family did anything 'improper' may play the deuce's own delight in her own bedroom, and need not be 'improper, but she would look on herself as lost if she received a visit from a man of her acquaintance in the aforesaid room.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking