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...greats facts of human life; but the scorn of religion is the worst form. This scorn is often the first stage of sin in the young man. He sits on a lofty seat and surveys the religious views of those about him first with doubt, then with contempt. In this process he soon hardens his conscience and then temptations find him an easy prey. There is also a scorn of ungodliness. There are men who sneer at the evils of their time, who vent their sarcasm on the wrong which they see about them and this may be all well...
...strictness of law, as on the tradition of reverence and instinct of respect with which people regard it. Such feeling is destroyed no more surely by city-living, with its drifting home-life or even absolute homelessness, than on the ostentation of the luxurious rich, in their studied contempt of simple home duties and their craving for a society life founded on indolence and selfishness...
...acts have seriously injured the Irish cause. - (a) In Ireland. - (1) By arousing disorder and contempt for authority; Nation, 29 Oct. 1891. - (2) By dividing the Irish party: North Amer. Review, Feb. 1891; Times, 12 Oct. 1891. - (b) In England. - (1) By alienating the Liberal party; Nation, 4 Dec. 1890. - (2) By renewing in the English public the old distrust of the Irish character; Nation...
Perhaps the cleverest bit of prose in the issue is a half story, half sketch, by Austin Smith, entitled "Moontide." The scene of the events narrated is Boston and its surroundings, the Harvard Bridge and the Charles River, and the very familiarity of the background breeds not a contempt but a pleasure. The sketch-for it is, perhaps, more of a sketch than a story-gives in a few pages a delineation, at once life-like and pleasurable, an architect, poverty-stricken, aristocratic, and fairly intellectual, and of a concomitant fellow-being.- a governess,- with whom the architect eventually falls...
Bismarck has great contempt for the rights of kings for in 1866 he showed no hesitancy in the annexation to Prussia of some of the petty German states. His action is everywhere marked by a constancy to a certain policy, to the idea of what he considers his duty, which is to develop...