I have never been told, and now will never be told, what his griefs against my mother's family, and specially against that cousin, had been; but that he had been very determined, deeply prejudiced, there can be no doubt.

Unless you were so determined a hater of Potterism as to be blindly prejudiced, you could not help liking Lord Pinkerton.

Weak converts, with still many remains of heathenism about them, might in this wise have been incurably prejudiced against truths, which, by other modes of teaching,by general and indirect instructions,would probably have been lodged in their minds.

Naturally, there was little love lost between the bitterly prejudiced old army officer, fixed and rigid in all his ideas, and the equally prejudiced backwoodsmen, whose ways of looking at almost all questions were antipodal to his.

One thing must be apparent, even to the most violently prejudiced and brutish bigotnamely, that Miss DICKINSON no longer confesses to the name of GUMMIDGE.

President McGregor has made a strong representation to me that the schemes of General Whittingham, if publicly known, would, however unjustly, prejudice the credit of Aureataland, and he appealed to me not to give particulars to the world.

We should be very careful not to use any terms by which they would be unnecessarily prejudiced against the Gospel.

[Footnote 1: "The position cited by Chitty from Hawkins, by way of summing up the result of the cases, is this: 'In a word, all confederacies wrongfully to prejudice another are misdemeanors at common law, whether the intention is to injure his property, his person, or his character.'

What makes him the more unimpeachable as a witness in our case is that he is decidedly prejudiced in favor of the Hottentots.

Firstly, it prejudices the interests of a number of nations whose coasts are washed by the North Sea and the Baltic, since they are included in the blockade; secondly, it compels England to break up her fleet into two or three divisions.

No people are more insanely prejudiced against the Hebrew race than the Germans.

Sir Leicester is honorable and truthful, but intensely prejudiced, immovably obstinate, and proud as "county" can make a man; but his pride has a most dreadful fall when the guilt of Lady Dedlock becomes known.

Two men, one of them obstinately prejudiced against missions, the other president of a missionary society, sit together at the board of a hospital, and heartily concur in measures for the health and comfort of the patients.

This may be a sad misreading of the history of the last fifty years, and a painfully prejudiced anticipation of the next fifty.

It is curious to compare the description of life in a frontier fort as given by this undoubtedly prejudiced observer with the equally prejudiced, but golden- instead of sombre-hued, reminiscences of frontier life, over which the pioneers lovingly lingered in their old age.

There was no justice in the decision of Judge Wilton; he was unduly prejudiced.

"I don't like to tell you his name, because youwith a good many other honestly mistaken peopleare most unjustly prejudiced against him.

This latter writer exhibits the singular phenomenon of the native of a Christian country, unreasonably prejudiced in favour of the Arabian impostor.

But he did not pretend to himself that he wasn't, quite illogically and with no provocation whatsoever, most vilely prejudiced against the lot of them.

" The learned commentator Christian adds a few more cases where formerly the criminal law was harshly prejudiced against women.

Such a development would gravely prejudice the lasting interests of Italy, for she would forfeit her political independence by so doing, and incur the risk of sinking to a sort of vassal state of France.

Long-established prejudices and old usages, no matter how false and oppressive, are, like the everlasting hills, hard to be removed.

"You leave me without argument and with merely my prejudices, which I dare say are unjust, but I confess they are strongly in favor of my own countrymen and strongly against this unionthough, on the other hand, my daughter and her happiness are my first consideration in this world.

I mention this as an example of the curious way in which our minds may be unconsciously prejudiced by the survival of some forgotten early fancies.