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The Roman scrutinises his faults with severity, but without the self-contempt which makes the Christian 'vile in his own sight. The Christian, like the Roman, bids 'study to withdraw thine heart from the love of things visible'; but it is not the busy life of duty he has in mind so much as the contempt of all worldly things, and the 'cutting away of all lower delectations. Both rate men's praise or blame at their real worthlessness; 'Let not thy peace, says the Christian, 'be in the mouths of men. But it is to God's censure the Christian appeals, the Roman to his own soul.
When therefore she read it for the first time, in the lonely days of her early widowhood, with the full shock of her sudden loss upon her, and a vivid sense of the worthlessness of all earthly gain brought home to her, she naturally did not look at things from the worldly point of view.
We can judge from this of both the worthlessness of the measure for tracing diseased women, and the mischievousness of the measure as an aid to libertines in getting girls they are endeavoring to seduce so injured in reputation that they can easily capture their prey. As a sanitary measure, the Acts have invariably proved a failure, as shown by honestly handled statistics.
Dr Pessimist Anticant was a Scotchman, who had passed a great portion of his early days in Germany; he had studied there with much effect, and had learnt to look with German subtilty into the root of things, and to examine for himself their intrinsic worth and worthlessness.
His master turned on him because his own reason was inconsistent with his conduct and a mere shield for his indolence and worthlessness. "Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knowest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow.
"But I knew too well that, in all the blackness of his guilt, Margaret Wilmot would cling to her father as truly, as tenderly, as she had clung to him in those early days when the suspicion of his worthlessness had been only a dark shadow for ever brooding between the man and his only child.
Among other things, I had got into the cogs and springs of men's actions. I had seen Scotty weep about his own worthlessness and the sad case of his Edinburgh mother who was a lady. The harpooner had told me terribly wonderful things of himself.
Then he was lost in thought for some minutes, during which he often looked in her direction. "What are you thinking of?" she asked. "That, to a decent chap, little Mavis would be something of a find, as women go." "You don't think much of women, then?" "What's it my pater's always saying?" "I can tell you: Always learn the value of money and the worthlessness of most women." "Eh!"
It is but a collection of short stories. Its author rejoiced in the romantic title of Gauthier de Costes Chevalier Seigneur de la Calprenède; he published Cléopâtre in 1642; he was the author of other romances, and some tragedies, noted only for their worthlessness. Even Richelieu, "quoiqu' admirateur indulgent de la médiocrité," could not stand Calprenède's tragedies.
Oh my God, how fair must be Thy real world, if even Thy phantoms are so fair!" "Phantoms?" asked Amyas, uneasily. "That's no ghost, Frank, but a jolly little honey-sucker, with a wee wife, and children no bigger than peas, but yet solid greedy little fellows enough, I'll warrant." "Not phantoms in thy sense, good fellow, but in the sense of those who know the worthlessness of all below."
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