And, as to courage, we see no difference between those Asiatics who eat animal food as you do, and those who abstain from it as I do.

Others abstained in Lent from all food for two consecutive days, but others fasted by taking nothing to eat all day, until the evening" (Kellner, op.

Ferdinando replied that he was quite content to abstain at a price.

His actions are guilty of more crimes than any other men's, thoughts; and he conceives no sin which he dare not act save only lust, from which he abstains for fear he should be charged with keeping bastards.

It seems extremely hard (though not perhaps to be wondered at) that the follies of threeor four and twenty should be remembered against a man of thirty, who has abstained during the interval from giving the least cause of offence.

There could be no harm in that, particularly if they abstained on Fridays, as of course they should.

DEAREST MADAM,Mr. Thrale never will live abstinently, till he can persuade himself to abstain by rule.

These cases only show the essential and profound immorality of the priestly professionin all its forms, and no matter in connection with what church or what dogmawhich makes a man's living depend on his abstaining from using his mind, or concealing the conclusions to which use of his mind has brought him.

Many believe that the mere abstaining from adulteries in the body is chastity; yet this is not chastity, unless at the same time there is an abstaining in spirit.