10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISGUSTFULNESS»
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disgustfulness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Lord Falkland and George Lord Chandos. Charles Blount. ...
But sometimes you have the spleen; I have often found you devoured by the
spleen. Beattie. Are you sure that that is not from reflecting on the corruption,
malice and disgustfulness of society? Douglas. I believe it rather to come from the
fumes ...
Sir Egerton Brydges,
1834
As soon as the false ideas of degradation and meanness, as attached to the
labouring portion of mankind, are fully extracted from the minds .of men, the ideas
of meanness and disgustfulness as belonging to their occupations will also ...
3
The Pastor's Fire-side: A Romance
She described the empire of vice to be absolute, when it takes possession of a
woman; and that its immediate effects, were to obliterate every feminine grace,
and transmute her at once into a monster of sin and disgustfulness.—Believing
this ...
4
An Inquiry Into the Rise of Prices in Europe During the Last ...
Who could venture to depict those scenes, combining atrocity, disgustfulness,
and absurdity, which pollute every page of their history since 1789? Where is the
folly that the whole nation have not admired, the extravagance that they have not
...
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Dictionarium Scoto-Celticum: a Dictionary of the Gaelic ...
2. Horror, fright, -terror: horror, terror. T um. 355. DAOCHAIL, -r:, adj. (Daoch),
Disgusting, exciting strong dislike, or aversion: fastidium afi'erens. C. S.
DAOCHALACHD, s. ind. (Daochail), Disgustfulness: nauseam vel fastidium
creandi qualitas.
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Theory of morals: an inquiry concerning the law of moral ...
It has been further supposed, that Right is endowed with a certain peculiar
beauty or desirableness, which attracts us to pursue it, and that Wrong carries
with it a certain deformity or disgustfulness, which repels and restrains us. This
theory of ...
7
Pamphlets Pertaining to Education
Looked at as the language of the laws which govern the, world of matter, and
used as the instruments to unlock so many of its secrets, they lose their
disgustfulness, and become a necessary, if a narrow and partial instru1 Since
writing the ...
California. Dept. of Public Instruction,
1843
8
Notes in England and Italy
There is an upper and lower town, and our hotel was in a still lower position than
either, all by itself. As soon as we alighted, we walked off to see the towns. No
words can ever describe the disgustfulness of the streets and of the people.
Sophia Peabody Hawthorne,
1869
Like medicine, the value of such disciplinary studies was supposed to be in direct
proportion to their disgustfulness ; for they were not food to nourish the mind
withal, but tonics, wherewith artificially to strengthen it. They were rods for the ...
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The Pilgrim's Wallet; Or, Scraps of Travel Gathered in ...
They are the only clean people in Europe ; and yet some of their public habits
surpass those of all other nations in disgustfulness. How bright the town and the
landscape look beside the ever-cloudy and rainy Britain. These white walls and ...