Even in the old people themselves, there is occasionally some backsliding into the depravity of worldly appetite.

There is a terrible amount of total depravity in animate and inanimate things.

In ending I would say as in beginning; this is not because salvation may be found through any device, however perfect, but because this itself, by reason of its excellence on the one hand or its depravity on the other, is, under the law of life, contributory to the operation of the divine spirit (which is the sole effective energy) or a deterrent.

A critical student will not be able, I think, to find any exceptions to this rule of Indian depravity among tribes untouched by missionary influences.

To avoid depravity like this, it is not necessary that any one should aspire to heroism or sanctity, but only that he should resolve not to quit the rank which nature assigns him, and wish to maintain the dignity of a human being.

Indeed, where women are brought up in wickedness, they differ nothing in the depth of their depravity from men educated in like manner.

The second and third volumes of these extraordinary adventures have just appeared, and contain higher-coloured depravities than their predecessors.

He had once had such a room in Paris, with a lofty, white, lacquered bed which is one stimulant the more, a source of depravity to old roues, leering at the false chastity and hypocritical modesty of Greuze's tender virgins, at the deceptive candor of a bed evocative of babes and chaste maidens.

If sentimentalists were gifted with a sense of humor it would have occurred to them how ludicrous and illogical it is to suppose that savages and barbarians, the world over, should in each instance have been converted by a few whites from angels to monsters of depravity with such amazing suddenness.

Diligent and patient search has not revealed to me a single exception to the rule of depravity above described, though I admit the possibility that among the Indians who have been for generations under missionary control such exceptions might be found.

As he asserts nothing, no one dreams of contradicting, and one finds himself entwined in a network of repulsive depravity without a ray of healthful protection or correction.

But I will tell you, Conte Grandi, you cannot walk across the street, in my country, without meeting a dozen men who would tremble at the idea of such depravity as an elopement.

Whether the Bells found the spectacle of depravity at Monte Carlo more attractive than the smiling face of nature at San Remo or not, they did not return, but sent for their baggage from their hotel, and were not seen again by the Geralds.

When the guilty man saw the mangled remains of his household, he only increased his depravity by trying to make others responsible for the wicked deed,exclaiming in feigned anguish, "my dear wife!

But there were others, committed by you when you were at or near manhood, exhibiting, if trueunderstand, I say, if truea moral depravity for which no extenuation can be found.