And she gave a performance which for most of the persons who saw it, made her the, and the only, "Nedda"; thoughor perhaps, becauseshe didn't give the part quite its traditional characterization; adapted it with the unscrupulousness of the artist to her own purpose.

He is not a mere pirate, living by plunder alone, but rather like the old Phoenician sea-farer, indifferently honest or robber as occasion serves,and robber not from fierceness of disposition, but merely from utter unscrupulousness as to means.

During the imperial or decadent stages, courage, dynamic force, the passion for adventure, unscrupulousness in the matter of method, took the place of the qualities that marked the earlier periods.

Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul in 563) attempted to check the confusion of the calendar by a law, which allowed the pontifical college to insert or omit intercalary months at discretion: if the measure failed in its object and in fact aggravated the evil, the failure was probably owing more to the unscrupulousness than to the want of intelligence of the Roman theologians.