Honoria had rescued him from a watery death in the village pond, by means of the colonel, who had revenged himself for a pair of wet feet by utterly corrupting the dog's morals, and teaching him every week to answer to some fresh scandalous name.

On it the Church begins to teach us morals,that is, how to live a good life; and therefore she begins by teaching us the foundation of all morals,which is love,love to God and love to man.

Nor had visions and miracles improved the morals or discipline of the camp; and the ghost of Adhemar of Puy appeared to rebuke the horrible sins which were drawing down upon them the judgments of the Almighty.

I should point all his morals for years to come; and his materialism, his scepticism, would be increased beyond endurance.

Dr. Douglas, upon this occasion, refuted a mistaken notion which is very common in Scotland, that the ecclesiastical discipline of the Church of England, though duly enforced, is insufficient to preserve the morals of the clergy, inasmuch as all delinquents may be screened by appealing to the Convocation, which being never authorized by the King to sit for the dispatch of business, the appeal never can be heard.

Lords of creation, whom your ladies rule, The world's great masters, when you're out of school, Learn the brief moral of our evening's play: Man has his will,but woman has her way!

It follows as a corollary from this proposition, that a representation should be as real as possible, for its tendency will be inevitably to elevate national morals.

Besides this, the injuries inflicted upon other organs affect only the body, but here they drag down the mind, ruin the morals, and destroy the character.

He had well laid to heart the fine moral of his favorite poem,that "He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man, and bird, and beast.

Now here I confess I cannot go along with you, and the difference between us is a very material one; for if the monarch be not an indispensable element in our constitutional mechanism, and if we can secure all the advantages of that mechanism without him, I have drawn the wrong moral from the facts.

This story contains two morals: both so obvious that they need not be recorded.

In opposition to this idea, the ancients define poesy as a primitive philosophy, guiding our life from infancy, and pleasantly regulating our morals, our tastes, and our actions.

More years may teach you better; the mean while, If you can't mend your Morals, mend your Style.

To guard the faith, to purify the morals according to the Christian standard, overseers, officers, rulers are required.

[you are a serious man, Sir] to make a venture that shall endanger my own morals?

And again, "With what execration should the statesman be loaded, who, permitting one-half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms these into despots and those into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriae of the other....

He returned to Canterbury, with the firm intention of reforming the morals of the clergy and resisting royal encroachments.

In the latter days of the Roman Empire the Church found the stage possessed by frightful plays, which debased the morals of a people already fallen too low.

The duke of NEWCASTLE then rose, and spoke to the effect following:My lords, I believe no lord in this assembly is more zealous for the advantage of the publick than myself, or more desirous to preserve the lives, or amend the morals of the people; but I cannot think that this character can justly imply any dislike of the bill now before us.

Such a state of things, in a country professing to be moral and christian, is a disgrace to human nature and is well calculated, to induce those abroad unacquainted with our general habits and feelings, to regard the morals of our people in no very enviable light; and does more to injure and weaken our political institutions than years of pecuniary distress.

Compassion should not make me an advocate for guilt but I may, without sacrificing morals to pity, venture to observe, that the many scandalous histories circulated to her prejudice took their rise at the birth of the Dauphin,* which formed so insurmountable a bar to the views of the Duke of Orleans.

If I should adopt the morals of men I would be called a fallen woman.

Ignorance of the law, if there was no criminal offence involving good morals, was particularly accepted in the case of women "on account of the weakness of the sex.

Nor can it be said to inculcate any particular moral, or to do more than unmantle the decorum of society.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.