gangrenes

From this period, Louis, relieved of all danger from England by the Civil Wars of York and Lancaster, was engaged for several years, like an unfeeling but able physician, in curing the wounds of the body politic, or rather in stopping, now by gentle remedies, now by the use of fire and steel, the progress of those mortal gangrenes with which it was then infected.

Quentin Durward 2008

But it is in evil time that the Duke neglects the cure of these internal gangrenes, for this William de la

Quentin Durward 2008

Rochefoucault, who has torn the veil from so many foul gangrenes of the human heart, says, we find something not altogether unpleasant to us in the misfortunes of our best friends.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

It is shown also to some degree in some gangrenes and mortifications, which do not excite great heat or pain on account of the subtle nature of putrefaction.

The New Organon 2005

For the whole of pleasure is in a manner in the joints, nerves, feet, and hands; and these are oft the seats of very grievous and lamentable distempers, as gouts, corroding rheums, gangrenes, and putrid ulcers.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

But there come gangrenes in the heart, or perhaps in the pocket.

Dr. Wortle's school 2004

Consumed by these scars, or rather gangrenes and cancers,

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

But there come gangrenes in the heart, or perhaps in the pocket.

Dr. Wortle's School 1881

Vicious maxims in trade become current; capital is invested in enterprises which war against morality; vice puts on the livery of fashion and becomes bold by patronage; the administration of justice grows lax, in morbid sympathy with a false philanthropy; unpunished crime gangrenes society; and deified wealth rides over principle and merit and talent, and a hollow, heartless selfishness holds carnival over the wreck of every virtue.

Proceedings of the Bible Convention of the Confederate States of America : including the minutes of the organization of the Bible Society, Augusta, Ga., March 19th-21st, 1862 : and also a sermon preached before the convention by the Rev. George F. Pierce, D.D., Bishop of the M. E. Church, South, Ga. 1862: Augusta 1862

Vicious maxims in trade become current; capital is invested in enterprises which war against morality; vice puts on the livery of fashion and becomes bold by patronage; the administration of justice grows lax, in morbid sympathy with a false philanthropy; unpunished crime gangrenes society; and deified wealth rides over principle and merit and talent, and a hollow, heartless selfishness holds carnival over the wreck of every virtue.

The word of God a nation's life : a sermon, preached before the Bible Convention of the Confederate States, Augusta, Georgia, March 19th, 1862, 1862