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Updated: June 17, 2025
And even now I fear, as it is said, 'to cast the pearls before swine, lest they tread them under foot and turn and rend us. For it is difficult to exhibit the really pure and transparent words respecting the true light, to swinish and untrained hearers.
And the pale, swinish eyes twinkled as they stared across the dull sorrow of the old man. There was an ominous sound from Pierre: "Do you let a thing like that happen in this country?" he asked fiercely. The other turned to him with a sneer. "Let it happen? Who'll stop him? Say, partner, you ain't meanin' to say that you don't know who Hurley is?" "I don't need telling. I can see."
Kalganov looked as though he had been besmirched with dirt. “It’s swinish, all this peasant foolery,” he murmured, moving away; “it’s the game they play when it’s light all night in summer.” He particularly disliked one “new” song to a jaunty dance-tune.
Then I'll get a tin halo and wear it, for my straw hat is about played out;" and away he went, chuckling over his odd conceits, but pleased, as all men are, when their goodwill is appreciated. If there is one kind of meanness that disgusts average human-nature more than another it is a selfish, unthankful reception of kindness, a swinish return for pearls.
Nay, so far is he from the affectation of being accounted wise, that he is content, all the rights of devotion which are paid unto him should consist of apishness and drollery. Farther, what scoffs and jeers did not the old comedians throw upon him? O swinish punch-gut god, say they, that smells rank of the sty he was sowed up in, and so on.
It pained him most to see these sins prevail among his nearest fellow-townsmen and followers, his Wittenbergers; and he lashed out with all his force against the students whom, as a class, he saw addicted to unchastity and to 'swinish vices, as he called them.
And thou art going now, Nicholas Grabman, upon an enterprise which promises thee large gains, and thy purse is filled; and thou wantest nothing for thy wants or thy swinish luxuries. Why should those shaking fingers itch for the poor beggar-man's hoards?
What, I, I, who have shamed kings in luxury, I to die on the gibbet, among the reeking, gaping, swinish crowd with whom O God, that I were one of them even! that I were the most loathsome beggar that ever crept forth to taint the air with sores! that I were a toad immured in a stone, sweltering in the atmosphere of its own venom! a snail crawling on these very walls, and tracking his painful path in slime! anything, anything, but death!
And I I have condemned myself to the society of swinish, ignorant, stupid monks, I must know no such divine souls, no such sweet communion! Help me, blessed Mary! help a miserable sinner!" Agnes left the confessional perplexed and sorrowful.
The nature of the art was hinted, with the delicacy of dainty feet which have to tread in mire to get to safety. Men, alas! are snared in this way. Instances too numerous for the good repute of the swinish sex, were cited, and the question of how Morality was defensible from their grossness passed without a tactical reply.
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