| 单词 | licentiousness |
| 例句 | Let me not suppose that she dares go about, Emma Woodhouse-ing me!—But upon my honour, there seems no limits to the licentiousness of that woman’s tongue!” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The album’s funk-pop sound and the downcast licentiousness of its lyrics pick up where “Gaucho” left off, but there’s a tinge of hoary defeatism that’s reminiscent of “11 Tracks of Whack.” Listen to 13 Essential Walter Becker Songs 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z And though the “Mad Men” era is over, the licentiousness is not. Holiday office parties: So very merry. And awkward. 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Welch is blatant about it, coming down hard and loud in favor of restraint and respect rather than licentiousness. Sex Symbols Squared 2010-06-04T21:34:00Z Much as I enjoy Baker's cheerful licentiousness and his stylistic virtuosity, it's impossible to read House of Holes without speculating about his motives and feeling disconcerted by his more bizarre deviations. Nicholson Baker 2011-08-13T23:04:05Z The irony is that by the time Deng Xiaoping initiated the economic reforms that would usher in sexual openness, licentiousness had been rebranded as Western “spiritual pollution.” China’s schizophrenic sexual revolution 2012-12-23T14:00:00Z Truffaut declared that what attracted him to the Henri-Pierre Roché novel on which the film is based was the strange combination of the licentiousness of individual scenes and the innocence of the whole. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood 2011-02-19T00:05:31Z Indeed it was the shameful behaviour of the British during their short-lived occupation of Kabul – the double-dealing of Macnaghten, the sexual licentiousness of Burnes — that gave Afghan resistance to the imperial interlopers its momentum. William Dalrymple: a life in writing 2013-01-19T10:00:01Z It was also an interlude of hoarding, and of drunkenness, lawlessness and licentiousness, born of boredom and anarchy. Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Such, though, was the explosion of licentiousness in a montage of images from the career of Spanish filmmaker Jesús Franco Manera, aka Jess Franco, who received that night a lifetime achievement award. Jesús Franco: creator of erotic horrors who had a unique cinematic vision 2013-04-04T16:20:49Z Roth’s masterpiece also ruminates on the submerged grief for a deceased brother and the true freedom of anti-Puritan licentiousness. A 'canceled' author falls for a cringe icon in 'The Book of Ayn' (Rand, of course) 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z And at least one regulator has taken notice of chatbot licentiousness. AI love: What happens when your chatbot stops loving you back 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Pushing back on “woke lunacy” is valuable, he said, but it may not be worth embracing a politics that “causes Christians to adopt or excuse the disposition of cruelty and licentiousness.” Opinion | What Comes After the Religious Right? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z He also self-published a book, “Alpha Status,” which his website describes as “500+ pages of shocking licentiousness that makes ‘50 Shades of Grey’ read like a children’s story.” He Became an Olympic Sensation, Without a Shirt and Without Competing 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Nicholas Christakis, a physician and a professor of sociology at Yale, has already predicted a possible uptick in what he called “sexual licentiousness” by 2024. Opinion | Fear of Contagion Won’t Depress Our Sex Lives Forever 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z In the speech, Barr described a political philosophy driven by the need to counter an “individual rapacity” in humans that quickly produces “licentiousness” and the destruction of “healthy community life” if not restrained. 'His abuses have escalated': Barr's kinship with Trump fuels election fears 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Freedom without responsibility no longer is freedom, it is a kind of licentiousness that is socially as well as personally damaging. Anti-lockdown protesters show how the idea of "freedom" has degenerated 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z He denounces “moral chaos” and “irresponsible personal conduct” as well as “licentiousness—the unbridled pursuit of personal appetites at the expense of the common good.” William Barr’s Wild Misreading of the First Amendment 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Instantly notorious, it led to Cleland being summoned by the Privy Council and the book being banned for its perceived licentiousness. Banned 'pornographic prose' up for sale 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Trump’s evangelical supporters are not surprised by any licentiousness in his past, Moore said. Evangelicals are planning a high-profile meeting with Trump 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z It was followed by three hours of licentiousness and blood—like “Game of Thrones”, but with a less credible plot. Opera's awful role models and the #MeToo moment 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z The very allegation is a sign of the “licentiousness of the press,” sniffed the Washington Times. Why not call it treason? 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z “Radicalism flourished in Boston, Bristol, and Bengal, while fears of disorder and licentiousness provoked rural elites in both the Hudson Valley and the English shires,” du Rivage writes. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z “What rights of conscience can atheism, irreligion, and licentiousness pretend to?” he asked with his negative answer already in hand. Distrust of the non-religious runs deep in American history 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z A trial followed in November 2015 in which it was claimed that Naji’s work “offended public morals” and was “spreading licentiousness.” Egyptian court hands author two year prison sentence for racy novel 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z In Washington’s and Hamilton’s view, there was no common ground between the American and French Revolutions; the former was characterized by a devotion to liberty, the latter by a passion for licentiousness. The Real Relationship Between Washington and Hamilton 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Even though the theme of the summit was supposedly “freedom,” Botkin rails against the freedom this song celebrates, which he assumes must be “licentiousness.” Ted Cruz will never “Let It Go”: The right-wing’s insane new fear of “Frozen” 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z She also said the era’s renown for unbridled licentiousness was exaggerated. Mandy Rice-Davies, Figure in Britain’s Profumo Affair, Dies at 70 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The kingdom’s hard-line interpretation of Islam holds that letting women drive encourages licentiousness. World Digest: Dec. 7, 2014 The kingdom's hardline interpretation of Islam holds that allowing women to drive encourages licentiousness. Saudi extends detention of women drivers 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The kingdom's hard-line interpretation of Islam, known as Wahabbism, holds that allowing women to drive encourages licentiousness. Relatives: 2 Saudi women held 6 days for driving 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The driving ban, which is unique in the world, is imposed because the kingdom's ultraconservative Muslim clerics say "licentiousness" will spread if women drive. Saudi council urges easing ban on women driving 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z The city was largely unsegregated, mixed marriages were legal, and its reputation for liquor and licentiousness was already firmly fixed. Book review: ‘Empire of Sin,’ murder, jazz, and New Orleans by Gary Krist The daily smorgasbord of official greed and licentiousness has become so unwieldy that newspapers have begun providing readers with charts to keep track of the implicated and their loot. Chinese Blogger Thrives in Role of Muckraker 2013-02-05T15:38:08Z Sometimes, license veers off into what is perceived as licentiousness. Advertising: Your [Choose Your Expletive] Ad Here 2013-01-17T01:38:23Z The licentiousness of Qi Fang, the public security chief of a small city in the far west, probably deserves a prize for originality. Corrupt Chinese Officials Draw Unusual Publicity 2012-12-26T02:04:33Z They describe it as resulting, not simply from licentiousness or from poverty, but even from so slight a motive as vanity, which made mothers shrink from the disfigurement of childbirth. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z Wherever that religion exists, there follow inevitably despotism and slavery, by which it crushes man, as by its polygamy and organized licentiousness, it degrades and crushes woman. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z The Wall Street Journal cited “current and former officials” suggesting that on travel assignments, agents practiced a “wheels up, rings off” philosophy–a phrase that suggests a pattern of licentiousness in the agency’s ranks. Secret Service Scandal: When Bureaucrats Behave Badly, Politicians Sense an Opportunity 2012-04-17T12:05:00Z His gallantries were countless, and his licentiousness notorious, even in that age of easy morals. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Such a marriage is often the form in which retribution comes for youthful selfishness and youthful licentiousness. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z His comment on French licentiousness in the eighteenth century, 50, note. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z I desire also to inform those who are daily denouncing the doctrine of the Restoration as tending to licentiousness and crime, that there are no grounds for such denunciation. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z It was the scandalous conduct of these young Aristophaneses, whose licentiousness equalled their boldness, which, in 1547, provoked the order of the Parliament against the representation of "mysteries." The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Indeed, the pitiless cruelty and brutal licentiousness habitual among the Crusaders, who spared no man in their wrath, and no woman in their lust, aided no little in inflaming the resistance to foreign domination. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z In the midst of this wanton destruction and barbarian licentiousness, two events occurred calculated to sober even a more brutal man than he. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z Everywhere faith and acceptance seemed to have been lost to humanity; licentiousness and impiety fed discord. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z The feelings and passions must be placed under the charge of moral principle, or we may expect an age of licentiousness to succeed one of authority and rigid discipline. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z According to Marest, they were a people sunk in sloth and licentiousness; but that priestly father had suffered much at their hands, and viewed them with a jaundiced eye. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused licentiousness. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z By two conspicuous features the decaying Paganism of the Christian era was distinguished,—its unbelief and its licentiousness. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z When the commonwealth of Athens flourished under good wholesome laws of its own enacting, they relied so much upon the security of their liberty, that they negligently suffered it to run out into licentiousness. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z David Hume summed up his admiration for Douglas by saying that his friend possessed “the true theatric genius of Shakespeare and Otway, refined from the unhappy barbarism of the one and licentiousness of the other.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z Neither is their licentiousness confined to the Provinces I have mentioned, the people of Carolina having cut off a party, coming down under a pass from Col. The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z In his works the Middle Ages are for the first time represented as what they really were—a period of ignorance, ferocity, and licentiousness; a period when injuries were unredressed, crime unpunished, and superstition unrebuked.” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z After his sun set, liberty without licentiousness hid behind a cloud, which was not fully cleared away till the storm of the American and French revolutions. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z He was admitted to the mysteries, but he became shocked at the cruelty and licentiousness tolerated and encouraged by paganism. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The Tibicinæ, or female flute-players, who formed collegiate bodies, were as celebrated for their talent and their charms, as for their licentiousness and extravagance. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Moreover, it was to their great dishonour to be spectators of the licentiousness of their mother, who, even at her years, daily desired every youth that came in her way. The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI) 2012-03-01T03:00:28.903Z And, above all, do not permit yourselves to acquire an inclination for the unwholesome stimulus of licentiousness, in this respect. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z There are also traces of extreme licentiousness in this copy of the Gospels which call for distinct notice. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z But his licentiousness and extravagance made the Athenians regret the government of Cassander. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z Slaveholders and their families form a distinct class, characterized by idleness, vanity, licentiousness, profanity, dissipation, and tyranny. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z Many perhaps understand vaguely that the climate is tropical but modified by sea breezes, the scenery wonderful, the people famous for beauty and licentiousness. Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art 2012-02-14T03:00:24.393Z It is full of sillinesses, follies, and anachronisms; but I have not discovered, in my cursory review, any of the immoralities or positive licentiousness which he himself practiced, directly inculcated. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z But, as will be seen later on, these Codexes abound with so much licentiousness or carelessness as to suggest the inference, that they are in fact indebted for their preservation to their hopeless character. The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels 2012-02-24T03:00:31.020Z As was to be expected, the greater part repeated their former declarations of the impiety, idolatry, and licentiousness of the order. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z The next peculiar abomination of the peculiar institution which I observed, was the licentiousness engendered by it. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z Besides their nightly or weekly meetings, they held a grand annual festival, at which each member endeavoured to "outdo all his former outdoings" in drunkenness, blasphemy, and licentiousness. The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young 2012-02-03T03:00:20.453Z There is here no opportunity for jealousy or theft; little for intemperance, the gaming table, licentiousness or quarrelsomeness. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z Perfectionism, Unionism, and Mormonism, as they have been developed in this region, have all aimed directly at licentiousness. Gleanings by the Way 2012-01-24T03:00:27.717Z They were told at their reception that they might abandon themselves to all kinds of licentiousness. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z It is well, certainly, now and then, to lop off some rank, disorderly shoots of licentiousness, that will sometimes appear, upon Liberty Tree. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Many of his personal satires are directed against the licentiousness of the men and women with whom he quarrelled. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z But the room fills; our conversation may be noticed; and, in this age of dissipation and licentiousness, to escape censure we must not stray within the limits of impropriety. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z His influence and pure example were also given to those who were striving against licentiousness. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z Nothing can indicate the licentiousness of the inhabitants of Jerusalem more clearly than the writings of Ezekiel.* Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, On The Assyrian Sacred "Grove," And Other 2012-01-05T03:00:28.663Z Drink, gambling, licentiousness, and prodigality, ruined his fortunes, and cut short his life. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The licentiousness of that age expresses itself in tones of refinement; it associates itself with sentimentalism in literature; it was reduced to system and carried out as the serious business of life. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z Every conceivable temptation was at this time presented to entice Napoleon into habits of licentiousness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 2011-12-25T03:00:11.297Z Situated where the commerce from the East and the West meet in transitu, it grew in opulence and wealth, and was distinguished for the arts, and for the luxury and licentiousness of its inhabitants. The Christ Of Paul Or, The Enigmas of Christianity 2011-12-24T03:08:04.237Z The licentiousness of Roman manners, too, was really gigantic; so that the moral corruption of the Greeks appears in comparison a mere infant essay in the school of vice. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z To my mind, he spoke what was partly true and partly false; for it cannot be maintained that the facilitation and toleration of licentiousness remove it from our midst. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Labeo also approves this, and Pomponius writes that she may be killed when taken in very licentiousness, and this is what Solon and Draco say. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z This 'monster of licentiousness' was wont to kill all women who repelled his addresses, and his assassination was a work of vengeance on the part of outraged fathers and husbands among his courtiers. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z It tells us of epochs in which the licentiousness of individuals, favoured by a society too dull, weak and indifferent to stand up against bad examples, succeeded in corrupting all classes. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z Whereas the main features characterising the decline of these great powers, were viciousness and licentiousness; physical, mental and moral corruption. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Laura was distinguished, then, by her rank and fortune, but more by her loveliness, her sweetness, and the untainted purity of her life and manners in the midst of a society noted for its licentiousness. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z They want the passing animal pleasure of licentiousness, if it blight the life and ruin the soul of an innocent being and turn a happy home into a very hell of anguish. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z In time of peril humanity always reveals these extravagant contrasts, and Boccaccio, with the true instinct of the artist, set his tales of merriment and licentiousness against the background of a city perishing of plague. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Trebellius, having evaded the rage of the army by flight, was shortly allowed to resume the command, the licentiousness of the soldiery becoming as it were a composition for the safety of the general. Old English Chronicles 2011-10-27T02:00:21.903Z The only restriction put upon the licentiousness of priests, by the council of Toledo, was to forbid them from "keeping more than one concubine at a time, at least in public." Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Let these fail, through the blighting influence of despotism, licentiousness, superstition, or slavery, and the national greatness is cankered at the root, and its preservation overtasks the ability of Phocion, of Hannibal, of Cato. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z Religion can release a man from the power of those evil habits which make a man's life miserable—from acquired appetites, as drinking, opium eating, debauchery, licentiousness, swearing, gambling and even from tobacco. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z The slave-trade, you will see, will not be abolished, because to be humane and honest now is to be a traitor to the constitution, a lover of sedition and licentiousness! The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z He supposed that the licentiousness of his priests did not extend beyond women of ill fame; but in this his holiness was mistaken, as he subsequently discovered. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Many of those countries, which they now possess, and where God and nature have scattered plenty, have been made barren by Popish avarice and the licentiousness of its priests. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Look at Julius III., elected in 1550, whose unnatural licentiousness transcending all bounds of decency, sought its gratification with boys, men, and even cardinals. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z It has been charged against this play that it presents an unredeemed picture of vice and licentiousness. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z Through a dread of licentiousness, they will not forsake the standard of liberty. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z The Greeks come, and, even amid gross licentiousness and idolatry, erect magnificent temples, in attestation of a belief in human destiny which, however degraded, still survived. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z "Attempts have been made to illegitimatize it," answered Gronski, "but licentiousness never can be rhythmical nor harmonical, and for that reason from these attempts there was born an antichrist of music." Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z The hostility of the Prince to the three principal seats of the French conscience, and the destruction of two of these, left the field clear for the licentiousness which marked the end of the reign. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z My readers must not fancy that this worship is indecent, or even productive of licentiousness. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z It may be truly said, if licentiousness has destroyed its thousands, despotism has destroyed its millions. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z Riot soon exhausted his stock of plunder, and the prodigal licentiousness of "The Brethren of the Coast," forbade the gathering of a future hoard. Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's 2011-09-11T02:00:10.443Z Alas! that light is the blaze of anarchy, that liberty the most daring and gross licentiousness! Samboe; or, The African Boy 2011-09-04T02:00:04.743Z In spite of the prevailing licentiousness of the Court, there still remained in this brilliant society many pure women. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z Marriage is one of the best preventives of licentiousness, but it is not often perhaps that it produces so positive a reformation as in the following cases. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z On the other hand, a failure in their observance, or intemperance, licentiousness, and dishonesty, no less surely war against the nature of his mental constitution, and tend toward ill-health. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z Nearly every one had by this time forgotten exactly what Miss Marsh had said, and only retained a general impression of licentiousness in conversation. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z It also appears from Mr. Douce’s valuable dissertation, that the domesticated fool frequently underwent a similar castigation, to curb the licentiousness of his discourse, or, as a punishment for the obscenity of his actions. Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection 2011-08-23T02:00:29.227Z And certain it is, if there had been more advertency in this point, there would not have been such inconsideration and licentiousness in the matter and manner of hearing. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z The rapacity, licentiousness, and cruelty, of the Buccaneers, in their pillage of Panama, had no bounds. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z But, though guided by no steady principles, and devoted to licentiousness, Bothwell was nevertheless not the mere man of pleasure. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z Men wag their heads as he passes by, especially those who are godless, and rejoice because they believe the coming of the king will mean godlessness and licentiousness. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z In our days the increase of licentiousness is but the result of having rejected the Truth of God. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z For impudence, shamelessness, intemperance, slothfulness, slowness of learning, unrestrained licentiousness, disgrace and the like, are attendants of savage manners, but the contrary of these are gentleness and mildness. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z It has been charged against these rites that they are scenes of indecency and licentiousness; but probably the charge is false. The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z He was particularly outspoken concerning the licentiousness of the Roman ladies. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z At so gross an exhibition of licentiousness, it is the mere instinct of Natural Piety to exclaim,—But then, could not those men even set down so sacred a record as that, correctly? The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z Why, virtue was not taught them—was not expected of them; and if they were born with the instinct, it was soon lost among a class where licentiousness was the rule and integrity the exception. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z What they call casting off ignoble fetters is licentiousness. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z It is the entering wedge of luxury and licentiousness, the fatal antagonists to the purity and simplicity of our republican institutions and manners. A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing 2011-07-10T02:00:22.780Z The pendulum had swung back, and from whining religiosity the people turned to the extreme of licentiousness. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z For it is sure sometimes to happen that what seems mere licentiousness proves on closer inspection to be unobtrusive Scholarship of the best kind. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z One day Napoleon was reading one of these virulent libels, describing him as a perfect monster of licentiousness, blood-thirstiness, and crime. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Mr. M’Lennan and Sir J. Lubbock have collected much evidence on the extreme licentiousness of savages at the present time. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z His cruelty and licentiousness, coupled with his accessibility to bribes, led to a great increase of crime in Judaea. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z In a few weeks Quaska would be a typical mining camp, where licentiousness would run riot, unless in some way it could be checked. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z They officiated in the Temple, observed the outward forms of the Mosaic law, but revelled in licentiousness, covetousness, gluttony and all manner of iniquity. An Examination into and an Elucidation of the Great Principle of the Mediation and Atonement of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 2011-06-06T02:00:07.650Z Yet there was more of grossness and licentiousness in the expression of his tenets, than in the tenets themselves. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z In 1789, a great outcry was raised against the Duke of York on account of his licentiousness. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z In most accounts of the early days of the community it is stated that the permission of wine-drinking and licentiousness, and the community of wives and property formed part of its tenets. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z From these causes it proceeds, that there is as much liberty, and even perhaps licentiousness, in Great Britain, as there were formerly slavery and tyranny in Rome. Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z By presenting objects on whom passion may be satiated without resistance and without redress, it cultivates in the master, pride, anger, cruelty, selfishness and licentiousness. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z No man more abhorred the votaries of licentiousness. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z The troops from Hesse Cassel, from Hesse Darmstadt, and from Hanover, earned an unenviable notoriety by their cruelty, rapacity, and licentiousness. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z So likewise is it with the man of the world with an organization tending to licentiousness and vice. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z Hence we may take occasion to observe that those who accuse Lorenzo de' Medici and his contemporaries of debasing popular taste by the deliberate introduction of licentiousness into art, exceed the limits of just censure. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z The Mimes may be traced beyond the age of Constantine, as we find the fathers of the church reprehending the immorality and licentiousness of such exhibitions569. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The proceedings were characterized by excessive merriment and licentiousness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Aulus Gellius cites, as equally distinguished for its eloquence and energy, a passage in his speech on the division of spoil among the soldiery, in which he complains of their unpunished peculation and licentiousness. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z The Cockneys were said to hate everything that was good and true and honorable, all moral ties and Christian principles, and to be steeped in desperate licentiousness. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z But throughout the comprehensive indictment, which ranges from the Gnostic heresy to gross licentiousness, there is no hint of the deadly sin of Judaism. The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion 2011-04-01T02:00:43.730Z Both communism and licentiousness appear to have been much less marked in the Samoan and Tongan islands, and here there is no evidence of interment in the sitting position. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z Now in respect to every one of these points of difference between marriage and licentiousness, we stand with marriage. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z Their licentiousness, 102;points in common with Shakspere, 56, 57;representations of passion, 95, 96;stage effects, 74;subjects, 63, 73. Dante, A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy 2011-03-21T02:00:11.187Z The writer then charges Hunt with irreligion, indecency, sensuality and licentiousness. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Tiraboschi alone ventures to doubt this account, partly on the ground of Firenzuola’s licentiousness, and partly on the ground of absence of evidence; but his arguments are not held to be conclusive. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z Still, the gold outweighs the dross, and we should remember the laxity and licentiousness of the times in which those books were written. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z In licentiousness, love is paid for as hired labor. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z It is probable, from all that history and tradition tell us of him, that there was always as much of sentiment as of sensuality in his licentiousness. Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I 2011-03-12T03:00:27.327Z High government officials are being condemned for licentiousness. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z It must be confessed that the union of Italian sentiment and imagination with French vivacity and gallantry, was, in the commencement, exceedingly graceful, before all poetry was lost in wit, and gallantry sunk into licentiousness. The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z Public licentiousness or indecency is rare among them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z In licentiousness, a man imposes on a woman the heavy burdens of maternity, ruining perhaps her reputation and her health, and then goes his way without responsibility. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z They lived in a corrupted age, and their pages are deeply stained with its licentiousness; they inspire no sympathy for their love, no interest, no respect for the objects of it. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z Money came in so easily that he soon entered on a life of licentiousness, and for several years he was as famous for his drunken carousals as he had been for his phenomenal business success. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z Luxury and lust go frequently hand in hand; licentiousness and honest toil but rarely. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z But there is on the other hand scarcely a doubt that the tales of licentiousness circulated by opponents are groundless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z You can remember the ribald jest, the obscene allusion, the sneer at virtue, the unblushing acknowledgment of licentiousness. The Home Mission 2011-02-12T03:00:30.217Z Describing California's city streets as "jungle paths after dark" and college campuses as hotbeds of sexual licentiousness and immoral behavior, Reagan rode to power by depicting California as an overly liberal, permissive society. The divisive underbelly of Reagan's sunny optimism 2011-02-03T16:31:00Z Banquets, balls, and gambling, formed the amusements of the evening, often disgraced by open licentiousness. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z The mythology of Greece and of Rome, though it exhibited a few examples of virtue and goodness, abounded in others of gross licentiousness and vice. An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists 2011-01-19T03:00:17.237Z The lover of real liberty, under such circumstances, should never forget that the road to despotism lies along the borders of the slough of licentiousness, even when it escapes wallowing in its depths. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z The scenes of unutterable licentiousness which followed, resembled those of other witch meetings.” The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets 2010-12-20T17:11:50.233Z While Ma's supporters are critical of his conviction, the first under the "group licentiousness" law in two decades, they know that in the past his punishment could have been far worse. A Swinger's Case Sparks Debate About China's Attitude to Sex 2010-05-21T09:45:00Z Officials eventually charged 22 people with 35 acts of crowd licentiousness between 2007 and 2009, 18 of which Mr. Ma had organized or engaged in, they said. Swinger Tests China?s Sex Morals 2010-05-20T16:20:00Z All too common in India is the belief in the licentiousness of foreign women. Cheerleaders shame Indian cricket | Kanishk Tharoor 2010-03-27T18:00:00Z From this point, to the relation of the stratagem employed by Zubeydeh, I omit much that is unsuitable for insertion in the translation, as approaching to licentiousness. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments After the worship of the Demon followed a travestie of the Christian mass; after the mass, the usual licentiousness, then the feast. The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets 2010-12-20T17:11:50.233Z On May 20, Ma was sentenced by a Nanjing court to a three-and-a-half year prison term for the crime of "group licentiousness." A Swinger's Case Sparks Debate About China's Attitude to Sex 2010-05-21T09:45:00Z This artful prelate, "the nephew of his uncle," was possessed of eminent talents, but was characterized by cruelty, licentiousness, and unscrupulousness. John Knox In her sacrifices, and at the festivals celebrated in her honour, too much licentiousness prevailed: victims, however, were seldom offered to her, or her altars stained with blood. Heathen Mythology His private character was marked by pride, cruelty, and licentiousness. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The obscenity of some of his writings was such that his name has become proverbial for licentiousness. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Lord Thurlow was eloquent in its defence, calling it “the restraint against licentiousness provided by the wisdom of past ages.” Curious Punishments of Bygone Days In proportion as the religion tends to licentiousness, will the poorer classes be liable to slavery. How to Observe Morals and Manners When however his worship was introduced into Rome, he became more the God of Orchards and Gardens, than the patron of licentiousness. Heathen Mythology Bacchana�lia, or Dionysia, feasts in honour of Bacchus or Dionysus, characterized by licentiousness and revelry, and celebrated in ancient Athens. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The gore and gashes wherein Mr. Rider Haggard takes a chaste delight are the natural diet for a cultivated palate which is tired of mere licentiousness. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" These are the features that mark a life given up to every sort of cruelty, licentiousness, and depravity. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I Another thing to be carefully remembered is, that asceticism and licentiousness universally coexist. How to Observe Morals and Manners They were exhorted to people the waste places, to curb licentiousness, and to walk in the path of righteousness. Stand Up, Ye Dead The licentiousness of women was even greater than that of men. The Progressionists, and Angela. Extremes were his delight, and he undulated between Austrian tyranny and democratic licentiousness in politics, just as he vacillated between the darkest bigotry of his church and open infidelity. The Fortunes Of Glencore So dazzled were contemporary critics by his brilliant and inspired extemporizations that they ignored Bocage’s licentiousness, and overlooked the slightness of his creative output and the artificial character of most of his poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" It may safely be assumed that wherever artificial restraints are imposed on the passions, or on the intellects and pursuits of men, there must be licentiousness, precisely proportioned to the severity of the restraint. How to Observe Morals and Manners Their extreme licentiousness was sometimes hardly concealed by the cowl of sanctity. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 This licentiousness, like the bruised serpent, will not down, but still will lift its head, and lurk amid deepest shadows. The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters But the reflecting mind soon tires of the anecdotes of injustice, cruelty and licentiousness on the one hand, and of justice, kindness and mutual attachment, on the other. To Cuba and Back The stories themselves, a hundred in number, range from the highest pathos to the coarsest licentiousness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The emigrants spend the night in washing, smoking, drinking, singing, sleep, and licentiousness. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them It must be confessed that the Catharists are not free from the imputation of promiscuous licentiousness. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 The peculiarity of the piece in point of structure and character may be thought, perhaps, to go some way in atoning for its occasional licentiousness. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 They do not know that that other plantation, belonging to the young man who spends half his time in Havana, is an abode of licentiousness and cruelty. To Cuba and Back Notwithstanding this, it cannot be denied that the artistic value of the Decameron is greatly impaired by descriptions and expressions, the intentional licentiousness of which is but imperfectly veiled by an attempt at humour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" In his youth he was distinguished for his licentiousness, and during the revolution he acquired an unfortunate notoriety. Lives of Celebrated Women Accordingly, he tried another novelty, tickling the ears of his audience with rhymed Martellian verses and semi-tragic pieces, stuffed out with absurdities, improprieties, and the licentiousness of Oriental manners. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The notorious licentiousness of the sect was the carrying out of their theory into practice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Its subjects were, the infidelity and licentiousness of that age. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes If He is a reformer, why does He not turn His attention to the licentiousness of the people? The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I He gave the reins to his natural overbearing and quarrelsome temper, treating his men with excessive rigour and indulging in unscrupulous licentiousness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" What do they bring back with them, I'd like to know?—French cookery and Italian licentiousness. Jack Hinton The Guardsman They are, however, characterized by the grossest licentiousness; and there is no originality of plot—that, according to the custom of Italian novelists, being taken from classical mythology or other ancient legends. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" His verse tales exceed in licentiousness his models in La Fontaine, but fall far short of them in elegance and humour. A Short History of French Literature The immediate expression he conveyed was that of profound lassitude changed by any topic of sly licentiousness to a startling concentration. Carnival The reputation of Annibale is tarnished by his jealousy and vindictiveness towards his brother, and the licentiousness of his disposition, which contributed to bring him to a comparatively early grave. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" There we see human nature in all its unvailed and degraded nakedness—the vile passions, the brutal coarseness, the corroding malice, the undisguised licentiousness. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 In old times Florence was conspicuous for the licentiousness of its carnival; and the Canti Carnascialeschi, or carnival songs, of Lorenzo de’ Medici show to what extent the licence was carried. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" ‘The Night Side of London’ is a fearful and, we believe, faithful representation of the extent to which unlawful and revolting licentiousness lays its bait and ruins its victims. The Religious Life of London Next to those bombastic, pseudo-pious songs we find hideous drinking songs, poems of gluttony and licentiousness, all of which are, nevertheless, highly valuable to the historian of culture. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) The same physical facts are the basis of true married love, and of the wildest licentiousness. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition It must be observed, that he is stained with no enormous or sanguinary crimes, so that his licentiousness is not so offensive but that it may be borne for his mirth.' A Novelist on Novels Even the fables, which may appear as profane, even these contain historical, physical, and moral truths, which fully atone for the seeming licentiousness of the letter. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem I allude to the universal licentiousness which prevails. Discussion on American Slavery This feast was said to be followed by an entertainment in which men and women abandoned themselves to the most abominable and promiscuous licentiousness. Women of Early Christianity These men saw nothing but licentiousness in their newly won liberty. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune Is it not its legitimate tendency to foster in them such vices as indolence, effeminacy, licentiousness, covetousness, inhumanity, haughtiness, and a supreme regard for self? Three Prize Essays on American Slavery The utmost licentiousness of speech and action was the order of the day. Roman Women It was the influence of women that softened the roughness and licentiousness of a past day into the refinement and virtue which are the possessions of the present age. Greek Women The contemplation of the terrible licentiousness which characterized paganism gave a great bias to the views of the early Christians on this subject. Women of Early Christianity The licentiousness which centred around these places brought them into such ill repute that to the ascetic mind washing did not so much signify cleanliness as sin. Women of England The traditions of licentiousness and sensuality associated with the worship of Aphrodite, which had given rise to the sinister word corinthianize, increased the natural tendencies of a great city to wickedness and wanton luxury. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Clodia was married to Quintus Metellus, to whom Cicero affords a most honorable tribute; but she did not allow the fact of her marriage to place any restraint upon the licentiousness of her conduct. Roman Women Aged and faded het�r�, who had passed their lives in gross licentiousness and had finally lost their hold on the public, especially devoted themselves to this horrible trade. Greek Women Christianity had not suppressed the licentiousness of the stage or improved the morality of greenrooms. Women of Early Christianity There are societies, even at the present day, where licentiousness is the rule of custom, and chastity the sign of weakness or want of spirit. The Intellectual Life Surely, there is no fanaticism like religious fanaticism, and no licentiousness like that of the unbridled devotee of the Church. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation It is easy to see the connection between the licentiousness of the times and the decline of the State. Roman Women Let us," they said, "choose a prince who shall rule over us, according to the custom of our fathers, who shall curb licentiousness, and administer justice and the laws. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors But her inordinate vanity, reckless extravagance, and flagrant licentiousness brought great scandal upon the Empire even in those vicious times, and frequently led to violent quarrels with Alexius. Women of Early Christianity The entire record in this case teems with the history of her licentiousness. The Spiritualists and the Detectives In the midst of extreme licentiousness, Gozzi endeavored to awaken in the Venetians a sense of the dignity of existence by placing before their eyes tangible ideas of virtue. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. But to condemn licentiousness in their women and to practise it themselves did not seem to the men of Rome to be either illogical or inconsistent. Roman Women As the freedom of Shakespeare scandalizes our sectaries, so among the circles, in which religion was most the mode in Germany, the unconstrained and unaffected purity of G�the began to pass for licentiousness. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels The clergy had grown indifferent to the licentiousness of the age, and many bishops and patriarchs were themselves venal and degraded. Women of Early Christianity Much irritated at Steno's atrocious licentiousness, the Doge wrote to him next morning, commanding him to avoid all approach to the palace and the Dogaressa, on pain of banishment. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. “You would doubtless,” said Gerbert, “endeavour to subvert the foundations of the Faith, and, by a course of profligacy and licentiousness, render the Holy See odious and contemptible.” Devil Stories An Anthology His thousand engaging qualities were disfigured by a licentiousness which probably shortened his career, for he died at the early age of thirty-seven. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries It is wonderful how keen are the perceptions of a pure minded young lady to detect even an approach to licentiousness in the male. Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects But in his relations with women he had to endure the natural outcome of his earlier licentiousness. Women of Early Christianity So great were their authority, their insolence, and their licentiousness that their existence had become an evil in the land, and Nobunaga determined to teach them a lesson they would not soon forget. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality They are given up to licentiousness and independence for the ten or twelve years they have been here. Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 A Republican government can only be destroyed in two ways: the introduction of luxury, or the licentiousness of the press. The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence As to the licentiousness of the papers calling themselves Federal, a name that apostacy has taken, it can hurt nobody but the party or the persons who support such papers. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 Though women, as a class, are much less addicted to drunkenness and licentiousness than men, it is universally conceded that they are by far the greater sufferers from these evils. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years In his youth Adamnan had led a life of great licentiousness, and being converted by the grace of God from his evil ways was moved with a desire to do penance for his sins. A Calendar of Scottish Saints Their minds are wholly spoiled by long licentiousness and the manners they have acquired among the Indians, and they must be watched closely as I had the honor to state to you last year.” Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 As he started for Richmond to hold the trial, he declared "he would teach the lawyers in Virginia the difference between the liberty and the licentiousness of the press." The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence Sir Guyon, after conquering many foes of goodness, is the destroyer of the most perilous of them all, Acrasia, licentiousness, and her ensnaring Bower of Bliss. Spenser I suppose all thoughtful persons will allow that intellectual licentiousness is the danger of this our intellectual age. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford Her boil was that violent passion—a mixture of love, licentiousness and arrogance. The Grandee The rough, uncultivated workman is driven to seek in beer and licentiousness that recreation which a wise piety ought to provide for him amid the refining scenes of Nature. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 If a man has not given up his drunkenness, his profanity, his licentiousness, his covetousness, heaven would be hell to him. Sowing and Reaping It is not necessary here to dwell upon the licentiousness and extravagances of conduct which were manifest at this time, as a general outline will suffice for present purposes. The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races An Interpretation He has indulged the utmost licentiousness of personal rancour; he even puns miserably on his name to degrade him as the emptiest of writers. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors This was owing to the artifices of the Romish clergy in those days, by whom the reformed religion was misinterpreted, as introductive of licentiousness and debauchery. Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life Wherein is demonstrated, by his own Example, the Method of Preserving Health to Extreme Old Age The writers are men whose characters and lives forbid the idea that their unbelief is intended as an excuse for licentiousness. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion He was greatly licentious; and his licentiousness, at the age of eighty-five, had nearly carried him off. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery I was among people who had the reputation of living in the greatest licentiousness as thieves and robbers. Adventures in the Philippine Islands The personal pronoun, which he uses so freely, has been taken to stand for the private individual Walt Whitman, so that he has been looked upon as a compound of egotism and licentiousness. Whitman A Study It is a sordid picture of licentiousness and cruelty. Carmen Ariza The whole subject is obscure, but the one certain and significant thing is that charges of licentiousness were connected with the Agap� from the outset. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development In an age of great luxury and licentiousness, he taught, both by example and precept, the most rigid doctrines of sobriety, temperance, and purity. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery They are usually attributed to the mendicant and wandering monks, and they undoubtedly reflect the licentiousness which at one time pervaded the monastic and conventual establishments. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them Finding the charge of drunkenness unequivocally rebutted, Paine's traducers advance that of licentiousness. Arrows of Freethought Negro nature is frail, characterized at Nassau by theft and licentiousness, but great crimes are rare. Due South or Cuba Past and Present It is plain from these reasonings that this doctrine tends to spiritual inactivity, and countenances licentiousness. The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted The licentiousness of pagan Rome was certainly not greater than the licentiousness of Christian Rome. The Truth About Woman He seems to have emphasized them more fully and frequently than the evils of licentiousness or drunkenness. The Social Principles of Jesus In the place of domestic and social affections, the criminal is dominated by a few absorbing passions: vanity, impulsiveness, desire for revenge, licentiousness. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Social life in the island is certainly at a very low ebb, and unblushing licentiousness prevails. Due South or Cuba Past and Present His devout spirit found no enjoyment in the gayeties of the metropolis, and he was deeply disgusted with the unveiled licentiousness which he witnessed every where around him. Henry IV, Makers of History It rarely happens that these kind of people do not fall into every excess of licentiousness, irreligion, and theft, and into the most outrageous consequences of hatred to their neighbors. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. This, my lord, among others, is a symptom of the decayed condition of our Government, and serves to show how fatally we mistake licentiousness for liberty. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges Referring to those purists who regard words more than things in their strictures on licentiousness, he calls them persons "whose morality seems to be all in their ears." Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 The first who suffered from the unrestrained licentiousness of this man, was an Indian of distinction in his tribe, and known by the name of Capt. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Female virtue was almost unknown, and the most shameful licentiousness filled the capital. Henry IV, Makers of History Stung in her wifely pride by her husband's ill-treatment and licentiousness, she openly threatened to expose his treason. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Some are given over to lives of the vilest licentiousness, while their neighbors lead lives of frugality and sanctity. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight So far from it, we find the apostles exhorting them against very great vices,—against murder, theft, and licentiousness,—and condemning them for having practised gross immoralities. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors One of the reasons for leaving––and rather abruptly, too––was for thrusting a cuchillo into the heart of his own father, who had reported him to his superior for his monstrous licentiousness. Captain Brand of the "Centipede" A Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies: His Love and Exploits, Together with Some Account of the Singular Manner by Which He Departed This Life The summary mode of punishing any breach of good morals, without the formality of a trial, makes a positive prohibition against printing unnecessary, being itself sufficient to restrain the licentiousness of the press. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton There is one phase of our society, as Americans, which is more to be dreaded than all others known to the philosophic mind, that is the reckless licentiousness which characterizes many politicians during political campaigns. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 Both Stoics and Epicureans doubted the immortality of the human spirit, and thereby opened the way to all manner of licentiousness. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 8, August, 1880 How has the impulse to freedom given by Luther degenerated into licentiousness, run out in infidelity and unbelief! Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors In no case is this mischief more plainly descernible than in the continually shifting regulations concerning licentiousness. Typee It has, therefore, been thought necessary to add another, and perhaps a more effectual check, to curb any disposition to licentiousness or tyranny that might arise in the breast of the monarch. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton Yet licentiousness tends to civil and social ruin all the same. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 For repeated experience and proof has shown that this is the case with persons who avoid licentiousness and luxury. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Nothing was seen but dancing, drunkenness, debauchery, and all that the most abandoned licentiousness can conceive of gross and abominable. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) The grossest licentiousness and the most shameful inebriety prevailed, with occasional and but short-lived interruptions, through the whole period of her stay. Typee There were two great vices in existence—drunkenness and licentiousness—and in both, woman was the victim of man in the majority of cases. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III A sacrifice was a feast attended with gayety and even licentiousness. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 11, November, 1880 Their licentiousness was encouraged by the indolence and general covetousness of the soldiers, and especially by the conduct of Count Romanus. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens No one was spared in a city of so much liberty, or rather licentiousness, as Athens was at that time. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) A strange composition! full of nervous lines and pungent satire—but not free from the grossest licentiousness. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Rely upon it, deep emotion, if rightly managed and properly directed, is more attractive than either amusement or licentiousness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 I expected the defenses of morality and modesty had been swept away by such ideas, and that the communities of Southern California had sunk into licentiousness. A California Girl Their equanimity returned, and whether owing to the mysterious influence of mesmerism or otherwise, they afterwards willingly enacted every species of licentiousness with their own children. The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies But this relaxation gave birth to horrible confusion, and an unbounded licentiousness in Sparta; and for a long time occasioned infinite mischiefs. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) The apostle does not here prohibit matrimony, but licentiousness, and unchastity outside the marriage state. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Instead of liberty you will have licentiousness, to which you will all fall victims in your turn. Madame Roland, Makers of History From the Revolution, toleration has been gradually enlarged, until all salutary restraints have been swept away, and the glorious liberties of our country have degenerated, by a fatal abuse, into unbridled licentiousness. On Calvinism But we do object to the hypocritical cant about the licentiousness of Pope's fine touches, from the person who wrote the above words in italics. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 That liberty is still more offensive to us, who are born, and live under a monarchical government, which is far from being favourable to licentiousness. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) Behold the knavery and licentiousness of these people! Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Thus, whilst they indulged their impotent malice, they made him, who was not well affected to them before, a greater enemy to their licentiousness, and rendered him more inclinable to the Lutheran cause. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies How can purity be expected from him, who sees almost universal licentiousness prevail among those whom he is taught to regard as his superiors? An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans Such sonorous strictures are innocent; but his false charge of licentiousness against Pope is most reprehensible—and it is insincere. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Establishments, though constituted with the greatest wisdom and the justest harmony of parts, degenerate, however insensibly, into disorder and the most destructive licentiousness. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) I also told him of the exceeding immorality and licentiousness which I had witnessed; mentioning, in substance, the facts previously detailed. The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel. Where such licentiousness very extensively prevails, society is rotten to the heart. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject But long-continued habit is very powerful; and in the habit of slavery are concentrated the strongest evils of human nature—vanity, pride, love of power, licentiousness, and indolence. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans The seclusion of women began, they say, on account of the licentiousness of the Arabs. India, Its Life and Thought The ancient Pagan religions sanctioned and practiced the most detestible licentiousness. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 If pride, selfishness, love of gold, thirst for power and licentiousness, are not controlled liberty will die. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 How little indignation might your saints have to spare for the licentiousness of the slave region. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Proyart, in his history of Loango, acknowledges that the negroes on the coast, who associate with Europeans, are inclined to licentiousness and fraud; but he says those of the interior are humane, obliging, and hospitable. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans They stopped to look at her, laughing, and began jesting with unbridled licentiousness. The Brothers Karamazov The Court, since the Revolution, had ceased to patronize licentiousness. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Current literature is penetrated with the spirit of licentiousness, from the pretentious quarterly to the arrogant and flippant daily newspaper, and the weekly and monthly publications are mostly heathen or maudlin. Public School Education We should reject it as the very worst "element," and the very surest "guarantee" of an unbounded licentiousness and an intolerable oppression. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject From the moment the slave is kidnapped, to the last hour he draws his miserable breath, the white man's influence directly cherishes ignorance, fraud, treachery, theft, licentiousness, revenge, hatred and murder. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans The way to prevent dishonesty is to let every man have a field for his work, and honest wages; the way to prevent licentiousness is to give to woman's capacity free play. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It is true that when the Tatler appeared, that age of outrageous profaneness and licentiousness which followed the Restoration had passed away. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) The demoralization of the people at large, in the practice of licentiousness, furnishes a topic of the greatest anxiety to the philanthropist. Public School Education But liberty, despoiled of law, is a wild, dark, fierce spirit of licentiousness, which tends "to uproar the universal peace." Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject The world, accordingly, was corrupt and evil before Noah was born, particularly when licentiousness began to prevail after the death of Adam, whose authority, as the first father, they feared. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Think you we should cherish and defend, in the heart of our nation, such a wholesale system of piracy, cruelty, licentiousness, and ignorance as is our slavery? History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Some of the leaders in the movement, however, merited opposition because of their efforts to introduce not only the beauties of pagan art and literature, but likewise some of their licentiousness. History of Education Never again would I barter ye for grandeur and licentiousness!” The Flower Basket A Fairy Tale Of fifty thousand of these paupers, the causes of whose destitution have been ascertained, nearly twenty thousand are attributable, directly or indirectly, to intemperance, profligacy, licentiousness, and crime! Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Thus far, he had renounced matrimony, repelled by the licentiousness of the young, who were drifting into the depravity of the Cainites. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Slavery, war, intemperance, licentiousness, injustice to woman, have thus one after another been brought to the light, as violations of God's eternal laws. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I I will take you to rooms where persons, under the name of 'secret societies,' privately meet to indulge in the most unnatural and beastly licentiousness. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston They extract taxes from us to pay for licentiousness! Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man We need not wonder, then, that even the forms of religion were destroyed, and that licentiousness and profligacy walked forth unveiled. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes At twenty-six, after a career of youthful licentiousness, he married and entered parliament. Political Women, Vol. 2 We may abolish slavery, remove intemperance, banish war and licentiousness, but they will have frightful reproduction in the elemental discord of our natures; for that which is "in us will be revealed." History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Ye who bask in the smiles of beauty, and voluptuously repose on the soft couch of licentiousness—beware! City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston The Krishna of the Puranas has infected all India with his licentiousness, and has given sanction to the worst forms of lust. A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions They set apart one day in ten, not for religion, but for idleness and licentiousness. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes All parental restraint being removed, the young man ran wild altogether, and used his freedom as fresh occasion for licentiousness. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life A want of capacity for self-government—freedom will be only licentiousness—and out of the possession of rights will grow only the practice of follies and wrongs. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I I have heard that Boston is a great city, where licentiousness and hypocrisy abound, in secret; where the artful dissimulator can cloak himself with sanctity, and violate with impunity every command of God and man. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston The one established by Vallabha-Swami, in the sixteenth century, is a worship of Krishna and is given to the indulgence of the passions and is characterised by gross licentiousness. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ In imitation of their Sovereign, the youthful nobility and a large portion of the city gallants plunged into unrestrained dissipation—intervals of licentiousness ever succeeding like periods of turbulence and anarchy. Political Women, Vol. 1 Very well; thus Saint Augustine and other holy men who had spent their early lives in licentiousness, changed their ways and had become luminaries of the church. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Socrates had expressed his disapprobation of the licentiousness of the comic poets, in their conduct as well as writings. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 Therefore, we say that licentiousness on the part of ministers of the gospel is produced in very many cases by the encouragements held out to them by too admiring and too affectionate sisters. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston A former proprietor had been high-sheriff in the days of Elizabeth, and many a dark and dismal tradition was yet extant of the licentiousness of his life, and the enormity of his offenses. Humorous Ghost Stories I had been by the circumstances of my life led to support toleration to the utmost extent of which it is justly Royal interference capable, but toleration must not be suffered to go into licentiousness.... A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) O prodigious licentiousness, and hellish misorder, worthy to be drowned in the lake of Lethe! The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) He was master of his own affairs, and he plunged more freely into the pleasures of society, although always, it is distinctly said, “without any vice or licentiousness.” Pascal Why are ministers of the gospel so prone to licentiousness? is a question often asked, and is often answered thus—Because they are a set of hypocritical libertines. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston The great city, then, is called by the Spirit, “Sodom and Egypt;” and is so called because of her licentiousness and idolatries, and her subjecting the saints to bondage. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse I don't know," began the mariner doubtfully, "the licentiousness of your general is well known——" "The gods have sent us in you a precious aid; you can become fatal to the Gauls. The Brass Bell or, The Chariot of Death This licentiousness was most acceptable to the greatest part, and they “loved to have it so,” Jer. v. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Ours were masquerades without licentiousness—carnivals without excess. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage I trust you will be able to devise such wise and salutary measures as shall effectually check licentiousness and intemperance. Speeches of His Majesty Kamehameha IV. To the Hawaiian Legislature But it was a period of riotous pride and regal licentiousness unparalleled even in the history of France. The Story of Paris The licentiousness of some of their number, moreover, proved fatal to their vigilance, and a sudden sortie of the garrison inflicted deadly havoc. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History It is the offspring of licentiousness, and its advocates merely wish to give legal color to licentious habits. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources There was no check upon public licentiousness; but private infidelity, which concerned the peace of families, was punished as a crime. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World The stranger inside the city walls will not find the easy welcome for his licentiousness which 1906 and 1907 could have given him. Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade At the time of Louis XVI., the French nation was thoroughly under the influence of degeneration consequent to a luxury and licentiousness that had had a cumulative action for several hundred years. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire Frequently the priests in the Philippines are upbraided about their gross licentiousness. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century The question of impressment, wrote Madison, "derives urgency from the licentiousness with which it is still pursued, and from the growing impatience of this country under it." Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 That in these dark retreats, secluded from censure, and from the knowledge of the world, they might riot in licentiousness. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World We remember La Fayette and French service for American liberty, but from organized, capitalized, cunning, brazen, Parisian licentiousness in addition to that of native Americans, Good Lord deliver us! Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls or, War on the White Slave Trade Vice and licentiousness even penetrate to royal households, and princes of the blood pose as roués and debauchees. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnessed the increasing corruption and licentiousness of popes and clergy. John the Baptist Now the individual character may, or may not, be a sign of decline; but the licentiousness, the casting loose of the masses in the design, is an infallible one. Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 “Our revolution,” he said, “pursues its march as happily as is possible with a nation which, receiving at once all its liberties, is yet subject to confound them with licentiousness.” Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. The corruption of Sodom in breaking the law of God was especially manifested in licentiousness. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan Who is in the chorus? . . . scrub-women and barmaids, who have made of the theater a screen for their licentiousness. The Comedienne Yet no one of these persons was punished at all for the licentiousness of his tongue or of his pen. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 The same licentiousness, which was formerly considered in young men as a venial frailty, is now no longer regarded in the husband and the father as compatible with the character of a decently religious man. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. To be thus esteemed, woman must resist the attacks of licentiousness. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 And in the land where the testimony of God's two witnesses should thus be silenced, there would be manifest the atheism of the Pharaoh and the licentiousness of Sodom. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan The conduct of Vitellius and his army in Rome was an abhorrent spectacle of sloth and licentiousness. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality In the next hundred years there were twenty-three emperors, thirteen of whom were murdered by their own soldiers or servants—a tragic period of cruelty, licentiousness, and decay. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Charles II. had brought with him from France all the vices of a court, where the grossest licentiousness found its grossest example in the person of the sovereign. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 But he deceived himself in his honourable design: the Mandragola was applauded, not on account of its morality, which was not understood, but of its licentiousness. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Pride, deception, licentiousness, cruelty, have become fixed in their characters. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan But freedom is not license, it is not licentiousness. Manhood of Humanity. Oppressed by Herod, the tributary Roman King—who, although professedly a Jew, copied the open despisers of all religion—they yielded to the influences of Roman luxury and licentiousness which spread over Palestine. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Italian beauty lived again in his remembrance, but a beauty marred by licentiousness and cruelty. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 There is probably no country population in the world where licentiousness prevails to such an extent as in the districts of Guldbrandsdal and Hedemark. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland In unfolding the sins of his life to a priest,—an erring, sinful mortal, and too often corrupted with wine and licentiousness,—his standard of character is lowered, and he is defiled in consequence. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan It is neither the licentiousness of the writer, nor the evil propensities of the reader, which have given to the Decameron alone, of all the works of Boccaccio, a perpetual popularity. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 It will add, too, one more example to thousands, in confirmation of the maxim, that women get once out of compass, there are no lengths of licentiousness, that they are not capable of running. Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) Anthony had picked up this scrap from the players, with whom he had smoked, and committed the usual delinquencies, not peculiar to that age of folly and licentiousness. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 I have never been in any place where licentiousness was so open and avowed—and yet, where the slang of a sham morality was so prevalent. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Temperance, purity, order, and industry were taking the place of drunkenness, licentiousness, strife, and idleness. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan He issued an order declaring that the army was in a state of "licentiousness," and forbidding soldiers to act without the civil authority. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration The former are exemplary in their lives; the latter display the old licentiousness which characterised the German artists in Rome thirty years ago. Overbeck There is no necessity that all the light and comfort and retirement should be associated with liquor and licentiousness. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training I know of no more awful example of that visitation of the sins of the parents upon the children, which almost always attends confirmed drunkenness, filth, and licentiousness. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Men and women must be trained together and live together, but not in licentiousness. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics It is simply self-expression: and this gives to the dancing impulse the liberty which easily becomes licentiousness. Psychology and Social Sanity As might have been expected, there were always plenty of renegade and ruffianly white men eager to enter into his service, in which they could give full fling to their instincts of rapine and licentiousness. The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902 The snug retreat, known only to the initiated few, where licentiousness and drunkenness are secluded, and thousands lost and won, was never more popular than now. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training The cant about it sometimes illustrates only a pitiable feebleness of intellect, but it more frequently discloses some kind or degree of wilful licentiousness. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 It is none the less true that, of all personal habits, the drink habit stands next to licentiousness as a cause of poverty and degeneration. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers Their state of morals I should say is decidedly better than it was under slavery,—less of licentiousness, lying, and stealing,—and more general manliness and self-respect. Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) There are some aspects of this divorce specialist business which would be amusing did they not furnish such a cloak and encouragement to depravity and licentiousness. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. He does not propose to his disciples to enter upon a wholesale denunciation of profanity and licentiousness. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training A dull hypocrisy hardly disguised the gross licentiousness of the times. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. His armies, along this line, amounted to the prodigious number of four hundred thousand men; and Dresden, the head-quarters of Napoleon, presented a scene of unparalleled gayety and splendor, of licentiousness, extravagance, and folly. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Under a show of justice and a pretended bridling of licentiousness, the press might be muzzled or compelled to play one monotonous hymn of praise to the powers above. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Not a few partake of intoxicating drink, and if native statements be true they give themselves over to the grossest licentiousness. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 The open licentiousness of public officers he did not tolerate, except the offenders were distinguished by official cleverness. The History of Tasmania, Volume I The Babylonians were peaceful and industrial, but the Persians combined with great luxury and licentiousness a fiendish ingenuity in torture and painful modes of execution. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals She encouraged the licentiousness of the court, and even the worst vices of her sons, that she might make them subservient to her designs. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges It is certainly the licentiousness of the spirits of men, that cannot endure the application of the word unto their particular actions and conversation. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning This honour is quite consistent with licentiousness, robbery, plunder, and even murder; but to violate caste by drinking from the vessel of a low-caste man, or eating with him, would bring with it indelible disgrace. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 They were always gamblers and the devotees of licentiousness. The Root of Evil They were not devices to cultivate or gratify licentiousness. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals The first great event in Russian history is the nominal conversion of a powerful king to Christianity, in the tenth century, named Vladimir, whose reign was a mixture of cruelty, licentiousness, and heroism. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges I would have the impression of this deep in your hearts,—that the gospel is not a doctrine of licentiousness, but a doctrine of the purest liberty, of the completest redemption. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Yet his premature old age, his bending and tottering form, wrinkled face, and hoary head, might be traced to solitary and social licentiousness. The Young Man's Guide The bond that united Antony and Cleopatra can not be disposed of by either the words "sensuality" or "licentiousness"—some other term here applies: make it what you wish. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators When the original notions were lost, or the logic became an artificial cover for a real ethical inconsistency, and the customs were kept up, perhaps to give gain to priests, the usages served licentiousness. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Neither again did the licentiousness of his daughter prevent Stilpo from leading the merriest life of all the philosophers that were his contemporaries. Plutarch's Morals Ardent spirit at first, kindles up the fires of love into the fierce flames at burning licentiousness, which burn out every element of love and destroy every vestige of pure affection. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage I should be sorry to leave an impression on any mind that other forms of licentiousness are innocent, or that they entail no evils on the constitution. The Young Man's Guide Drunkenness, licentiousness, lawlessness, they say are produced by it, already to an extent fearful to consider. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy This is what happened, and forms of the custom which had no sense but the gratification of licentiousness spread around the Mediterranean. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals He considered it very likely to prove most useful in keeping the garrison themselves in order, and to prevent them wandering about and committing acts of licentiousness among the natives. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold Certainly no one can deny that many of our "well-bred" young men are little better than "high-class dogs" so lawless are they, and ready for the arena of licentiousness. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage The four great vices of this age are Sabbath-breaking, gambling, intemperance and licentiousness. The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy A due liberty allowed to the press, may force a government to do right, but a licentiousness may compel it into error. Diary in America, Series Two Then he was made the god in whose name the ancient mores of Israel were defended against the introduction of luxury and licentiousness. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Or it may be licentiousness, that sin which makes men lower than the beasts of the field, from which one can scarcely break away. And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses By some writers it is treated as a religious cloister for the protection of female chastity, while by others it is regarded as a school of licentiousness. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver As a choice of evils this course was the least; but many of these marriages were a disguise for licentiousness, and of a very temporary character. The History of Tasmania , Volume II That the licentiousness of the press feeds it, it is true; but I am rather inclined to imagine that the real source of it is to be found in the peculiarity of their institutions. Diary in America, Series Two The prophets condemned idolatry, and all sensuality, licentiousness, and bestiality, with which they connected all sorcery and divination. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Wandering brothers were naturally beset by the dangers and temptations of an unsettled life; and if history may be believed, fell into many irregularities and even shamed their cloth by licentiousness. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Hitherto the theatre of Philadelphia has been too much resigned to the licentiousness of bold, and blind opinion. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 The local rulers, instructed by their superiors, have long permitted even the licentiousness of the press. The History of Tasmania , Volume II In Italy, where the brutality and licentiousness of the popes were open to every eye, people had long since lost all reverence for the Church. The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa Anything which injures the physical body, whether it be licentiousness, intemperance, gluttony, or vicious modes of dress, is necessarily evil from an ethical point of view. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 We trust the present work, therefore, will prove a salutary check to the progress of that system whose practical effects have ever been, and ever must be, licentiousness, cruelty, and blood. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs Our theatre, gentlemen, has sunk to the worst state imaginable of licentiousness and savage riot. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 The effects produced by their equipages, luxury, and licentiousness, on the British population, when set forth in the language of romance, were not to be charged on the local government. The History of Tasmania , Volume II The hostility between Yahveh and the heathen gods has its deep ethical significance in the struggle of chastity against licentiousness, to which the religious sanction brings reinforcement. The Chief End of Man Dance-hall girls, babbling incoherently, reeled in the passageways, danced on the cabin table, and were only held back from licentiousness by the restraint of their bullies. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance Not content, however, with this, she attempted to break the yoke of God: she stamped the bible in the dust, and proclaimed the jubilee of licentiousness, unvisited, either by present or future retribution. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs But Dryden had no such excuse to plead for his base subserviency to pecuniary advantage, or for the detestable licentiousness of his comedies. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 You want these people; without them you will sink lower and lower into that effete degeneracy into which years of licentiousness have sunk you. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General The miller, the reeve, the somnour, the shipman, relate coarse stories, and their licentiousness somewhat embarrasses the good Chaucer, who excuses himself for it. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance This doctrine has led to great licentiousness in some groups of the sect, especially on the part of the priests or Mahārājas. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II Loose licentiousness and loose dishonesty are very apt to go hand in hand, and it is certain that they did in Jamaica. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy In fact, it was the stolid integrity of the Chinese blood that toned the recklessness and licentiousness of the English blood which had run in his father's veins. A Son Of The Sun My uncle is a patriarch and takes no part in the licentiousness of our times. French and Oriental Love in a Harem He is sometimes styled 'Louis the Great,' and his reign is celebrated as an era of magnificence and learning, and is notorious as a period of licentiousness. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School The Sotties were more farcical than farce, and frequently had the licentiousness of pasquinades. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 To describe them briefly thus:—Their islands are grand and picturesque; they are very intelligent, and are physically powerful, but they seem abandoned to a debased idolatry, to cruel customs, and to a gross licentiousness. The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific Wantonness, licentiousness, avarice, and the other vices which stained their conduct, discovered their secret intentions. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited The utmost licentiousness was prevalent in the prison throughout. Recollections of Old Liverpool Gluttony and licentiousness are the sins of Naples. The Bibliotaph and Other People Of the Farces the licentiousness is extreme, but their pleasantry and their humour are not contemptible. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 But now,—Is it reasonable that the very copies which have been in this way convicted of licentiousness in respect of St. Mark vii. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels The licentiousness of the people, already arrived at a pitch never known in this country, is daily inflamed by newspapers and pamphlets, while there is no Government whatever to restrain its effects. Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 In Newgate, Mr. Radcliffe witnessed a scene of desperation, accompanied with the ordinary circumstances of licentiousness, and reckless misery, which, unchecked by adequate regulations, the prisons of that day afforded. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. His third master was "vulgar in his habits, unprincipled and cruel in his general deportment and especially addicted to the vice of licentiousness." The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Having served well the offices of felons and impostors, Hag Zogbaum would instruct her girls in the mysteries of licentiousness. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith From cases of excusable oscitancy they degenerate, either into instances of inexcusable licentiousness, or else into cases of downright fraud. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels It would, however, be difficult to enlarge this list, while on the other hand, the catalogue of those who really practised the licentiousness they celebrated, would be very numerous. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Of licentiousness after his accession to the throne his enemies themselves have never ventured to whisper a suspicion. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth The system produces general licentiousness among the slaves. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Doubtless, some may see in every penitential prayer an additional proof of his former licentiousness and dissipation: others, it is presumed, may not so interpret these scenes. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth The first-mentioned formation indicates unbridled sensuality and passion, and where it cuts through the Line of Life it indicates death, but one usually brought about in connection with the licentiousness that it denotes. Palmistry for All By the licentiousness of his companions, he by degrees lost his fear of offending God, and laid aside the greatest part of his practices of devotion. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Their rise has in general been marked by virtue; their decadence by vice, vanity, and licentiousness. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 When good, they constitute virtue; when bad, licentiousness. Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Few wars have been accompanied by more cruelty, more outrage, and more licentiousness than the Crusades or have brought a blacker cloud of disasters in their train. Historical and Political Essays A history of the licentiousness of the monks and the early popes would fill a great number of volumes; and indeed, many are the volumes which have been devoted to this subject. The Necessity of Atheism His voice was cold, harsh, and metallic, and in his eyes there was none of the rude lust of the Gaul or the polished licentiousness of the Capuan. The Lion's Brood All the courtesans were banished from Venice; but their absence was not enough to reclaim and bring back good morals to a whole people brought up in the most scandalous licentiousness. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 Therefore checks and licentiousness are in better antithesis to each other, than ethics can be to either, because ethics includes both. Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Then, skillfully shifting to some secondary matters, he would soon slyly and cunningly come back to his favorite subject, namely, sins of licentiousness. The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional What they remembered of this vernile licentiousness, constituted the staple of their talk in such situations. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg The poem refers to the unbridled licentiousness the little lady developed on her translation from her provincial residence; though locally she had not failed to distinguish herself. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 His deep-toned objurgations at the degeneracy of Rome are brought to mind by the increased dissipation and licentiousness of American youth. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy No excess of vice could surpass the licentiousness of the Ptolemies, who made of Alexandria a bagnio, and all Egypt a hot-bed of vice. Plain Facts for Old and Young It is generally true that actors lend their influence to intemperance, licentiousness, and irreligion. The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning There seem to have been no bounds to his cruelty and licentiousness; and the people tell tales of him which make one shudder. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 For they were mistaken in expecting that the patricians would tolerate the unbridled licentiousness of that office. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 They were exposed to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, when the press and the stage were most licentious. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric Indeed, it may with truth be said that the devices of modern cookery are most powerful allies of unchastity and licentiousness. Plain Facts for Old and Young I admit that the actors are no better than they should be, and that intemperance and licentiousness may be countenanced by them. The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning But he was also fond of pleasure, and was conspicuous even among the Romans for licentiousness and debauchery. A Smaller History of Rome When a daily mob, emboldened by licentiousness, stood round him, he commanded a noted ringleader of the sedition to be apprehended. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 He rarely drinks to excess, for that would unfit him for his work, and he is not usually given to licentiousness, for a similar reason. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City Viewing the matter from this stand-point, what wonder that licentiousness is rife! that true chastity is among the rarest of virtues! Plain Facts for Old and Young Intemperance and licentiousness appear to be indispensable to support the theatre. The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning At length, however, he sank into licentiousness, and from licentiousness to its necessary attendants, cruelty and crime. A Smaller History of Rome That these riots proceeded not from distress, but from licentiousness. The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 |
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