| 单词 | dissoluteness |
| 例句 | Other hobgoblins were the brainchildren of self-proclaimed experts who cooked up idiosyncratic theories of how language ought to behave, usually with a puritanical undercurrent in which people’s natural inclinations must be a form of dissoluteness. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This world, dripping with dissoluteness and a belief in the redemptive value of danger, coincided with the debut of a revolutionary new clothing consortium called Paraphernalia. Betsey Johnson: A Role Model, Still 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z In reference to the first point: this writer depicts the character of Dr. Hurlbut, as made up of dissoluteness, depravity, and crime. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z The sympathies of the young G�rres were from the first strongly with the French Revolution, and the dissoluteness and irreligion of the French exiles in the Rhineland confirmed him in his hatred of princes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Several members of the House of Commons, probably by way of protesting against the dissoluteness of the Court, had forestalled him. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z The cold dissoluteness of the Catholic orders is not only undeniable, but it is even frightful. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Strictly speaking, this subject belongs to another chapter; it belongs to that of intemperance, dissoluteness or bad society. Popular Books on Natural Science For Practical Use in Every Household, for Readers of All Classes 2011-08-29T02:01:12.927Z Nor need we want examples, among the inferior creatures, of dissoluteness, as well as resoluteness in, government. Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy 2011-06-29T02:00:26.763Z My monks are known by their dissoluteness, and living without rule or order. Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes 2011-04-28T02:00:15.367Z Cato and Antony were not more unlike, than the public severity of Pitt, and the native and splendid dissoluteness of Fox. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z In ambition unprincipled, in cruelty inexorable, in dissoluteness cold and calculating; the annals of history scarcely furnish an equal compound of moral deformity. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z In his inimitable sketches of the four Georges, Thackeray asserts that the dissoluteness of the nation was awful. The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z It is no tearer, no eradicator, no falterer, who in this frightfully beautiful bustle of passion and inevitableness has given a picture of his own dissoluteness. The Awakening of Spring A Tragedy of Childhood 2011-02-13T03:00:19.567Z The duke was a statesman, like Clarendon and Southampton, of the old and honourable cavalier school, untainted by the political profligacy or the social dissoluteness of the men of the Cabal. Irish History and the Irish Question 2011-01-16T03:00:22.640Z Irreligion, dissoluteness, and pessimism—supposed naturally to go together—could never prosper; they were incompatible with efficiency. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z His is a Manichean belief in the goodness of sport and the evil of dissoluteness. 2010-02-15T08:06:00Z These feasts passed from the Greeks to the Romans, who celebrated them with still greater dissoluteness till the Senate abolished them, 187 B.C. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis In youth he was remarkable for the beauty of his person, no less than for the dissoluteness of his manners. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide Whence, then, the dissoluteness of her desires, the bitterness of her humor, the heartlessness of the wife, the callousness of the mother? The Progressionists, and Angela. I cannot indeed conceive any state of society more adverse to the intellectual improvement of mankind than one which admitted of no middle line between gross dissoluteness and fanatical mortification. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The scenes of drunkenness and dissoluteness which he witnessed in Goa inspired him with a number of satirical poems, by which he drew upon himself much enmity and persecution. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII In the Roman epoch the town was notorious for its dissoluteness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" His court was the abode of an indescribable dissoluteness. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) There is no virtue, goodness, or any thing commendable left among us, but vice, dissoluteness, and cowardice bear the sway. Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards Azarius, a chronicler of Milan, after describing the almost incredible dissoluteness of Pavia, gives an account of an instantaneous reformation wrought by the preaching of a certain friar. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The exterior offices of religion were suspended, the people fell into the utmost dissoluteness of manners; Mohammedanism made great advances, and public confusion everywhere prevailed. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem The unequal distribution of property, the toleration of slavery, the ignorance and poverty of the lower classes, the softness of the climate and dissoluteness of manners, mark their character. Essays on the Constitution of the United States Far is it from the truth, that dissoluteness or unseemly principles are by this course of conduct developed. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. Besides she charged her daughter constantly, much as Angela was charging Eugene, with the utmost dissoluteness of character and was as constantly putting her on the defensive. The "Genius" I have already mentioned the dissoluteness which almost unavoidably resulted from the prevailing tone of gallantry. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Two emperors in particular, Kee and Chow, are held up as monsters of wickedness and examples of dissoluteness beyond comparison. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality And although at a later period the rapacity, dissoluteness, and tyranny of the monkish orders led to revolt, by that time the imagination of all had been thoroughly impressed with the value of religion. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development The true purpose of the picture—to deter people from a life of dissoluteness—escaped Walter entirely. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland "The ladies of Lawrence," he said, "show a gaudy dissoluteness of taste, and sometimes trespass on moral as well as professional decorum." Six Centuries of Painting Its dissoluteness was awful: it had swarmed over Europe after the Peace; it had danced, and raced, and gambled in all the Courts. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges They are usually accounted pilferers, cheats, faithless, and abandoned to dissoluteness. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies Accordingly, Richard employed his friends and partisans in talking as much as possible in all quarters about the dissoluteness and the vices of the late king. Richard III Makers of History It is more reasonable to attribute it to the dissoluteness of his life. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII That is, been at Venice, which was much visited by the young English/ gentlemen of those times, and was then what Paris is now—the seat of all dissoluteness. The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry Thus stood matters: dissoluteness of life on the one hand, distress on the other; profligacy and poverty, extravagance and starvation, linked inseparably together. Folk-lore and Legends: German Miton was undoubtedly an intimate ally of De Méré, and amidst all his dissoluteness, made pretensions to scientific knowledge and attainments as a writer. Pascal Nor need we want examples, among the inferior creatures, of dissoluteness, as well as resoluteness, in government. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing He begins, in no measured terms, to denounce the sin of men in high places, and holds up the dissoluteness which disgraced the court. John the Baptist At the same time he had been a baronet, and Andrew swithered between the dissoluteness of the request and a certain stylishness it undoubtedly possessed. The Prodigal Father Tacitus deplores the folly and dissoluteness of the rulers of his nation; he bewails the misfortunes of his country. Historical Essays It eyes them with an extraordinary 'dissoluteness'—if you will give that word its literal meaning. From a Cornish Window A New Edition The opportunities for vice and dissoluteness are really less than at home. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He alleged, indeed, a special Divine sanction for the dissoluteness of his later life, but this has not deterred his followers from thinking they could not go far wrong in imitating him. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 The mass of the Florentine boyhood and youth was no longer left to its own genial promptings towards street mischief and crude dissoluteness. Romola Every beam of reason and ray of knowledge checks the dissoluteness of the tongue. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 The most frightful dissoluteness of manners was encouraged by the example of the gods themselves. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot The aggregate appearance is of dignity and dissoluteness: the aggregate voice is a defiant prayer: but the spirit of the whole is processional. The Book of the Damned Their manners and customs, and family and political government, were very much like those of the other Indian tribes, but they were distinguished from the Hurons by their greater dissoluteness and indecency. The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot I want you to notice that frequency of divorce always goes along with the dissoluteness of society. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony This tendency to promote dissoluteness is the most serious charge which Plato brings against the arts. The Moral Economy For it was not merely libertines, like Marmontel, making a plea for their own dissoluteness, who habitually spoke of these things with inconsiderate levity. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot Greatly, and above all else, had Jules despised their dissoluteness: how could they be other than the poor devils they were, with those debasing habits which they cherished? Browning's Heroines I may ruin my health by a dissolute life; I may repent of my dissoluteness and be forgiven; but the bad health will remain. Short Studies on Great Subjects In the case of Henry of Monmouth, the confession of his own unworthiness is adduced in evidence only of his former habits of dissoluteness and dissipation. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth But the Brindlocks, though winking at a great deal which the Doctor would have counted grievous sin, still were uneasy at the lad's growing dissoluteness of habit. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 They were appalled at the dissoluteness of the students, the frigid preaching of the day, and the universal religious destitution of the nation. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Alcibiades was rejected, as we learn from Plutarch's life of him, on account of his dissoluteness and insubordination in the city. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Item the host shall not allow any dissoluteness like dancing, dice or cards, nor shall he receive any one suspected of being a debauche or ruffian. The Age of the Reformation His children were tainted with the dissoluteness of their father, and marriage had not repaired the reputation of his daughters, or cured them of depravity: this was the man whom I now proposed to visit. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 Lincoln was quite without any elegant and sentimental dissoluteness, such as can be attractively portrayed. Abraham Lincoln But the dissoluteness of grief, the prodigality of sorrow, is neither to be indulged in a man’s self, nor complyed with in others. Andrew Marvell The dissoluteness and violence of his character were not changed by the change of scene. King Alfred of England Makers of History Lastly, he spoke of his brother Robert, whose dissoluteness, whose inactivity, whose unsteady temper, nay, whose very virtues, threatened nothing but ruin to any country which he should govern. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology of heroic virtue, blended and mingled up with a worse dissoluteness, and joined to a murderous and savage ferocity, forms the tone and idiom of their language and their manners. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) It was destroyed by the loafers and the dissoluteness of Coney Island. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him One imputed savage cruelty to him; the other, with a Johnny-rawness that we find it difficult to comprehend, profligacy and dissoluteness of life. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 On the one side we observe a Pagan dissoluteness which would have scandalized the parasites of Commodus and Nero; on the other, a seeming zeal for dogma worthy of S. Dominic. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots But the dissoluteness of our young men of birth will not suffer me to doubt its reality. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 The Cavaliers affected a recklessness and dissoluteness greater than they really felt to be right, in order to differ most widely from those purists who, urged by analogous motives, decried all amusements as evil. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction There was profligacy in very exalted places, and, indeed, dissoluteness and immorality everywhere. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character It is worthy of remark that the dissoluteness of the middle portion of the century was not associated with the cynical and contemptuous view about women that usually goes with relaxed morality. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) The spirit of roguery and joviality, which prevails in them all, proves that they are more the overflowings of wild and unrestrained youth, than the fruits of dissoluteness of manners. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations Besides, there is reason to think, that dissoluteness in the particular now alluded to, among a civilized and luxurious people, seeks concealment in its gratification, as congenial to its excessive and morbid sensibility. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Churchill was imprisoned for debt, occasioned by his dissoluteness and extravagance,—Cowper characterizing him as "spendthrift alike of money and of wit." Thrift But he loved far better to go to Venice in his gilded barge, and to spend his Carnivals amid the infinite variety of that city's dissoluteness. Italian Journeys Jolly, kindly, generous, a rebel against etiquette, and an habitual breaker of promises, she was long popular in Spain, in spite of a career of dissoluteness only equalled by that of Catherine of Russia. France in the Nineteenth Century My life may be somewhat shortened in this world by dissoluteness, but that will only make heavenly indulgence on a larger scale the sooner possible. New Tabernacle Sermons The purity of Roland's life was esteemed by Phlipon such a reproach to his own dissoluteness that he revenged himself by an insulting refusal. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs On the contrary, France, in the last decade of the Empire, was more corrupt than Russia's chief towns and the dissoluteness, though not as coarse as at Munich, was more diffused. The Son of Clemenceau The cause of his extreme dissoluteness and unseemliness lies, do you see, not in himself, but somewhere outside in space. The Duel and Other Stories From this specimen of frailty, may be readily inferred the dissoluteness of those females, who had neither rank nor marriage to render chastity a virtue. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 All writers concur in stigmatizing the dissoluteness and neglect of decency that prevailed among the clergy. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History See different. dissipated, a. profligate, dissolute, licentious, fast. dissipation, n. dispersion, scattering; profligacy, dissoluteness. dissolute, a. debauched, dissipated, licentious, abandoned. dissolution, n. dissolving, analysis; solution, liquefaction; decomposition, resolution. dissolvable, a. dissoluble, soluble, fusible. Putnam's Word Book This wholesale and indiscriminate denunciation grew out of the utter dissoluteness of those ancient plays. The Abominations of Modern Society The fashion of the times of Charles II. made dissoluteness reputable, and discountenanced regularity of conduct. Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics Effeminacy, drunkenness, gluttony, dissoluteness, and unnatural crimes were the distinguishing characteristics of his court. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 Below the popes, a clergy as vicious as their rulers, squandering money, plundered from the people in dissoluteness and luxury. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Secondly, By the general dissoluteness of manners among the slaves, and the want of proper regulations for the encouragement of marriages and of rearing children among them. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) Volume II I trust we have not much holy fury left; I am persuaded that there was far more dissoluteness than enthusiasm in the mob: yet the episode is very disagreeable. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II Sometimes indeed the transitions are abrupt, from an age of piety to an age of dissoluteness. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed Both sides became ostentatious; the one made the most of its dissoluteness, and the other of its decorum. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 By the King's weakness, more than by all else, were loosened the foundations of that throne of France, already tottering under its long-accumulated weight of injustice, of mad extravagance, of dissoluteness, of bloody crime. Calvert of Strathore It looks drunken, brutal, and narrow-minded, and has an expression of dissoluteness the most revolting. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti We men must share the blame of their ill conduct; it is we who teach them to love riot and dissoluteness and sow the seeds of wickedness in their hearts. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 "And these men," he said, "accused my patient, suffering army, which had not even common necessaries, of dissoluteness and profligacy!" Caesar: a Sketch Their regiments were the Fourteenth and the Twenty-ninth, notorious for their dissoluteness and disorderliness. The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 There must have been other reasons unknown to me; what I saw was much dissoluteness and shamelessness, and a great deal of improper conduct. History of the Philippine Islands Secondly, by the general dissoluteness of manners among the slaves, and the want of proper regulations for the encouragement of marriages, and of rearing children among them. The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839) The Duke of this wild province gave him the abbey of St. Gildas; but its inmates were ignorant and disorderly, and added insubordination to dissoluteness. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women But Tyre was defiled by the worship of Baal and Astarte; it was a city of exceeding dissoluteness. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets As he saw these preparations Caesar exclaimed, "These are the men who accused my suffering, patient army, which needed the common necessaries of life, of dissoluteness and profligacy." Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Four authors, in different centuries, who have written the history of the Valley of Rieti, assure us, that when dissoluteness recommenced in that country, the wolves returned and made great havoc. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi The proprietor was sinking lower and lower in the mire of dissoluteness. The Rose in the Ring The floors were littered with papers; the walls were greasy and bedecked with malodorous notations, documents and pictures; the windows were smoky and useless; the clerk's desk bore every suggestion of dissoluteness. Jane Cable In our time dissoluteness was the fashion, and I was the most outrageous man in the army. Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian In like manner his splendid natural talents were marred by an incredible levity, and his excellent temper by an unbounded dissoluteness. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life She would fancy at times that Rougon had risen from the dead to punish her for her dissoluteness. The Fortune of the Rougons An air of idleness, almost dissoluteness and despair, brooded over some of the hives. Confessions of a Beachcomber "Luxury, dissoluteness, and slavery have been always the chastisement of the ambitious efforts we have made to emerge from the happy ignorance in which the Eternal Wisdom had placed us." The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth On the other hand, he perceived very clearly how easy it would be for him to lapse by degrees of weakened will into a ruinous dissoluteness. Born in Exile All this, as seen is very far from the supposed "moral dissoluteness" of the barbarians. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution It were curious to have seen that woman as Juvenal did, a veil over her yellow wig, hunting adventures through the streets of Rome, while her husband in the Forum censured the dissoluteness of citizens. Imperial Purple To the general dissoluteness he attributes, in plain words, the success of the Frank and Gothic invaders. Roman and the Teuton Your extravagant follies—your grandfather would have said, your dissoluteness—soon changed our respective situations. File No. 113 Besides, to strip it of its imaginary dignity, I must observe, that in the most civilized European states, this lip-service prevails in a very great degree, accompanied with extreme dissoluteness of morals. Vindication of the Rights of Woman The reins, meantime, were slackened to me, beyond all temper of due severity, to spend my time in sport, yea, even unto dissoluteness in whatsoever I affected. The Confessions of St. Augustine Dishonesty and dissoluteness were ashamed and hid their heads. The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1 For he shows the method of accusation and purgation elsewhere and in the place where Hector taxes his brother, accusing him of cowardice and dissoluteness. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Dare one to presume that a few hours spent in whining prayers shall atone for years of reckless dissoluteness? The Tavern Knight This signifies," said Petronius, "that Pomponia and Lygia poison wells, murder children caught on the street, and give themselves up to dissoluteness! Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 The profaneness and dissoluteness of the camp during the sickness are mentioned in many contemporary pamphlets both in verse and prose. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 He was now no longer young, and was expiating by severe sufferings the dissoluteness of his youth: but age and disease had made no essential change in his character and manners. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 He had taxed Crispin with his dissoluteness, and Crispin, despising him for a milksop, had returned to his disgust with mockery, and had found a fiendish pleasure in arousing that disgust at every turn. The Tavern Knight We read of bishops of ten years old, of bishops of five years old, of many popes who were mere boys, and who rivalled the frantic dissoluteness of Caligula, nay, of a female pope. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 This ignominious dissoluteness, or rather, if we may venture to designate it by the only proper word, blackguardism of feeling and manners, could not but spread from private to public life. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 Anarchy in a kingdom invariably favours dissoluteness in a people, inasmuch as the disturbance of civil order tends to unsettle moral law. Royalty Restored Compunction openeth the way for many good things, which dissoluteness is wont quickly to lose. The Imitation of Christ Can you not understand this dissoluteness of mine, which led them to dub me the Tavern Knight after the King conferred upon me the honour of knighthood for that stand of mine in Fifeshire? The Tavern Knight He lived with boundless dissoluteness, and procured by extortion the means of indulgence. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 |
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