Word: offenders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other hand, to dilute and dampen the service until it loses the impress of every belief and of every tradition, so that it may offend no prejudices, is a sure way of making it a mockery; the studied reserve, the conscious insufficiency of such a service is too notorious to be pointed out. In our day, to make a religion fit for all, is to make one fit for nobody. The prayers, then, should feed the craving for worship which some yet feel; they should have a meaning. But since they cannot possibly have one meaning for all, let only...
...they may see fit from the dictations of their own consciences. Carelessness, when it results in inconvenience to others, is in itself an offence of no slight magnitude; but when the carelessness, becomes intentional carelessness, then the offence is one that deserves more than passing notice, and those who offend thus may well receive the highest contempt and odium of their fellows...
...colledge, not grateful to wise men, and chargeable to ye Parents of ye Comencers; do therefore put an End to that Custom, and do hereby order that no Comencer or other scholar, shall have any Such Cakes in their Studies or Chambers, and that if any Scholar shall offend therein, ye Cakes shall be taken from him, and he shall moreover pay to the College twenty shillings for each and such offence...
...before our eyes. But let it be said to the credit of the steward and the management, that, although we were there at a time when there is the most confusion and general disorder-just as the dirty dinner dishes are coming down-nothing could be found which would offend the most fastidious. Everything was scrupulously neat; everyone knew his or her duties, and went about them quietly and systematically...
...speaks the better English, the subjects of Queen Victoria, or the fellow citizens of President Arthur? still remains open for discussion. Perhaps it will never be determined, but for Americans, for those at least who pretend to be careful in their speech, it may be claimed that they offend no oftener than do their English cousins. Good, or what are called good, English writers say "different than," for which there appears no authority in either etymology or syntax. They persist in the use of "whilst" as firmly as they do in their spelling of "favour," labour," "honour" and "cheque." Whatever...