Another doctor of divinity, speaking of the depraved state of the times, says, "It was the error, or rather folly, of some of the ancients, to think, that in writing the actions of illustrious men, the style must sink, unless they mixed up with it the ornaments, for so they called them, of poetical fiction, or something of this sort; and, consequently, thus blended truth with fable."

Aristotle recommends as the ideal tragic hero a man not preeminently good nor unusually depraved, but a man between these extremes; "for pity is aroused by unmerited misfortune, fear by the misfortune of a man like ourselves."

At all times they were prepared to engage with members of either sex in sexual relations of the most depraved kind.

"Are you sorry, monk, that a sinner has escaped?" "Son, I rejoice that this bitter office hath passed from me, while I mourn that there should be a spirit so depraved as to require it.

Depraved of sin, should he deprivéd lie Of grace?

A residence of five months in Venice, without being subjected to restraint, or having means to elude it; the company of other young men, familiar with vice and dissipation; above all, a fatal inclination had depraved and ruined him!

'The last proprietor of that place,' continued the clergyman, 'was a vicious and depraved man, whose very existence was a curse to the neighbourhood in which he dwelt.

No care had troubled their peace, no intemperance had corrupted their blood, no misplaced passion had depraved their hearts.

" I addressed her solemnly: "David and I believe him to be utterly depraved.

The appetite is always depraved and voracious.

In the same manner, if, either from the influence of the social institutions of a country, or from the operation of natural causes which human power is unable to control, there is a class of men too low, and degraded, and miserable to be reached by the ordinary inducements to daily toil, so certain are they to grow corrupt and depraved, that degradation has become in all languages a term almost synonymous with vice.

In consequence of this depraved taste for unwieldy bulk, the Moorish ladies take great pains to acquire it early in life; and for this purpose, the young girls are compelled by their mothers to devour a great quantity of kous-kous and to drink a large portion of camel's milk every morning.

We have frequent Instances of this odd kind of Mixture in People of depraved Minds and mean Education; who tho' they are not able to meet a Man's Eyes, or pronounce a Sentence without Confusion, can Voluntarily commit the greatest Villanies, or most indecent Actions.

But history proves the existence of an instinct among all racescall it depraved, if you will, the fact remainsleading them to employ narcotics.

Either principle alone makes an ugly and depraved form of natural character.

With profligates, publicans were joined as depraved and contemptible.

That the law has not been universally enforced, proves only that the people of Ohio are less profligate than their legislatorsthat it has remained in the statute book for thirty-two years, proves the depraved state of public opinion and the horrible persecution to which the colored people are legally exposed.

He was dethroned and assassinated by his son, Abul Hassen, a ferocious and ambitious tyrant, who left a son, named Abu-Said, of a very depraved character, in whose reign Ceuta, after a long siege, was taken by Don John, King of Portugal.

The hideous ruin that Mr. Taine had, in himself, wrought by the criminal dissipation of his manhood's strength, and by the debasing of his physical appetites and passions, was to Aaron King, now, a token of the intellectual, spiritual, and moral ruin that alone can result from a debased and depraved dissipation of an artist's creative power.

I have not seen the book, but the Rev. James Johnston, in summing up its contents, says (193): "A man can sell wife and children according to his own depraved pleasure.

"He was more crafty than ambitious, more depraved than naturally wicked," says M. Malouet: "resentment towards the court had hurried him into intrigue; he wanted to become formidable to the queen.

Perhaps even Novy Afon and many another spiritual mother would have shared a common fate with their depraved sisters.

The dramas produced at the beginning of the revolution were in general calculated to corrupt the national taste and morals, and many of them were written with skill enough to answer the purpose for which they were intended; but those that have appeared during the last two years, are so stupid and so depraved, that the circumstance of their being tolerated even for a moment implies an extinction both of taste and of morals.

" "We won't differ with you on that point," remarked Mouse, "but if she takes any special shine to a runt like you, when there's boys like the rest of us standing around, all I've got to say is, her tastes must be a heap sight sorry and depraved.

The bankrupt and depraved imagination does not see that a living man is far more dramatic than a dead one.