Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

As the body, being matter, was thought to be essentially evil, it was the aim of the Manicheans to set the soul free from matter; hence abstinence, and the various forms of asceticism which early entered into the pietism of the Oriental monks.

His clean-shaven face was a distinctly evil one.

That inborn delight of the young in all that is marvellous and fantastichas that a merely evil root?

Wherever scorn and prosperous oppression are, there is the Prussian; unconsciously consistent, instinctively restrictive, innocently evil; "following darkness like a dream.

There are degrees of the qualities of evil, as there are degrees of the qualities of good; wherefore every evil is lighter and more grievous, as every good is better and more excellent.

Sir Giles was in a decidedly evil temper as he rode home from the hunt in the soaking rain that afternoon.

" I have no intention to moralise or to indulge in a homily against the reading of what is deliberately evil.

This bastard was charitable and pious because he knew his soul, conceived in double sin, to be doubly evil, and therefore doubly in need of redemption through good works.

They see around them, amongst those under their influence, a great deal going on which is downright evil.

Or else ... Something sinister in the slant of the Dupont shoulders, as he vanished, something indescribably evil in his furtive yet heavy tread of a beast of prey, struck a thrill of horror into the mind of Lanyard.

His voice sank suddenly to a whisper, no longer passionate, only inexpressibly evil.

Matter was supposed to be inherently evil, and mind was thought to be inherently good.

And, even if an act or course be admitted to be intrinsically evil, taken by itself, yet, if the evil which it is calculated or designed to avert be a greater evil still, the defence is complete, or, at all events, sufficient.

After the manner of his kind, he was prone to ascribe absurdly evil motives to all men, and to be duped himself in consequence.

" "But talkin' aside, suppose he was to meet up with Lord Nick?" The smile of Joe Rix was marvelously evil.

That which is objectively evil may seem good and a duty to subjective conviction.

It seems to me that there is weight to this objection; and although the cradle has been extensively used without producing any obviously evil effects, I should greatly prefer to have it universally laid aside.

The Nigger became more sullen; Perdosa more snake-like; Pulz more viciously evil; Thrackles more brutal; while Handy Solomon staggering from his seat to the open keg and back again, roaring fragments of a chanty, his red headgear contrasting with his smoky black hair and his swarthy hook-nosed countenancehe needed no further touch.

There are few things not purely evil, of which we can say, without some emotion of uneasiness, this is the last.

Hence any religion which looked upon the world as being radically evil appealed to him as containing an indestructible element of truth.

As long as we keep to the notion of one all-inclusive Spirit, the Subject of universal experience, it is easy to show that sin is but relatively evil, that it is, when viewed absolutely, as much a factor of the universal life as is righteousness; yet surely this is not to account for so large and obstinate a part of our experience, but to deny it.

" It was in that season, and a remarkably evil season, that the paper began running the last issue of the week on Saturday night, which is to say Sunday morning, after the custom of a London paper.

My white frock was the sufferer as usual; and scarcely any evil that has befallen me since, ever affected me more than would the dreaded spot that always appeared in the most conspicuous place whenever I was dressed up.

I have long considered it a most serious evil, both socially and politically, and I should rejoice in any feasible scheme to rid our States of such a burden.