Word: moralizes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gleaming bald-head, and said in tones clear and distinct: "Isn't it about time for the curtain to rise, father?" . . . I have n't been to the theatre since. I don't enjoy it as much as some folks do. I don't think it's quite moral...
...lower. He was at one time the most degraded free-lunch fiend in all Hoboken. Finally, even the last vestiges of respectability were thrown aside, and he went to Yale. What need to chronicle his future infamy? Let us shudder as we reveal the last act of his appalling moral cataclysm; for - sh - h! - he actually sank to the very depths of crime, and became the senior editor of the Wreckord...
...windows in Memorial Hall are works of art, and are of great value, and, though we do not wish to disparage the highly moral nature of Cambridge people in general, we cannot forget that there is a mischievous and malicious spirit present in every community. Therefore we can consistently ask if the College acts wisely in not protecting the Memorial Hall windows by a wire screen of some sort? As they now stand, a stone from the hand of a "Port Mucker," or from that of an inebriated Freshman, might cause several hundred dollars' damage, and put the University...
...whole matter into a nutshell: why did not the Brethren, if they are to be considered liberal, make a straightforward, honest statement of their position, that they were henceforth willing to admit Liberal Christians without reserve? A society that stands pledged for the highest morality ought to have moral courage enough to define its position about membership fairly and squarely, and not leave its constitution so that it can be twisted any way, both to satisfy its exclusive tendency, and to preserve before the public the reputation of being liberal...
References. - Locke on the Understanding, Book II. Dugald Stewart's Works, edition by Hamilton, I., 348, &c., 389. Thomas Brown's Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, IV. Fleming, Manual of Moral Philosophy. Upham, Moral Philosophy, I. N. Porter, Human Intellect. Todd's Cyclopaedia, article on Sleep, by W. B. Carpenter. Maudsley, Physiology and Pathology of the Mind. Spencer, Principles of Psychology...