Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, "is one who has been convicted of violating a law of the land. It is a recognized fact that there are a great many laws which are violated every day. Some people are too good to obey the laws, or too thirsty. As a result of this constant violation it is hard to tell what is right and what is wrong." He went on to show that neither laws nor religions could determine right and wrong and proved his statements with forceful examples. "It can not be conscience that determines this difference," he went on, "for that is merely...
...delivering the Godkin lecture, President Hibben began the actual body of the first division of his lecture by denying the often alleged stability of our government merely because it has existed 160 years, declaring that "no form of government can be assured of permanency", for there must be a "constant renewing of its power" to adapt it to the swiftly changing conditions of our modern...
...answer is, No: not unless we are satisfied. Our courts deserve respect; but they can not presume infallibility. It is our privilege, it is our constant duty to judge our judges. In a free state, criminal trials are public trials for this very purpose: the conscience of the law must co-operate with the conscience of the community...
...centuries the very slow progress of morality through processes of natural evolution has proved a constant reproach to the more virtuous and earnest members of the human race. Law, persecution, and reform have all been tried as experiments for forcing people, to measure up to the proper moral standards, but have alike proved failures in the attempt at wholesale elevation of human morality...
...benefit of any who have never heard Professor Edgell lecture--though that there should be any such seems scarcely credible--the Vagabond has but one word to say. He himself has been a rather constant attender at one of this gentleman's courses and he can truthfully say that he has never been disappointed. Not only has he never been disappointed, but with hardly an exception has been enthralled not only by the uninterrupted flow of speech which comes from the platform, but even more by the genius with which the kernel of each subject is laid bare without...