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...hat is worse, to the chagrin of the majority of the Hindus, some of these legitimize the inimical caste system while upholding the priestly perks and prejudices....

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...izabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his n...

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... same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and w... ...y suspects, in opposition to what she terms her rights. I care not for her prejudices—she shall listen to me; and I will show her such reasons for yie...

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...le to fear; trembling neither before princes, nor executioners, not even before innocence; accepting each other for such as they were, without social prejudices,--criminals, no doubt, but certainly remarkable through certain of the qualities that make great men, and recruiting their number only among men of mark....

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...fore innocence; accepting each other for such as they were, without social prejudices,—criminals, no doubt, but certainly remarkable through certain o...

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...ings. They merely look at the laws, then apply them in terms of their own prejudices and basic assumptions. I think that the British rulings made mo... ... the West where the illegals may be taking the jobs of the natives. Social prejudices don‟t necessarily have their bases in the economic needs of the...

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... so, she was determined to show us that she also was ad- vanced beyond the prejudices of an old and dry school of theology. “I have thrown down all th... ...er- fect truth. We are obliged to govern children by the strength of their prejudices.” And then she moved away, for it was seldom that Mrs. Talboys r...

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...f things too difficult for Free thinkers, and such who have shook off the prejudices that usually cling to a confined education. To which I answer, t... ...nd free thinking, enemies to priestcraft, narrow principles, pedantry, and prejudices, who might be an or nament to the court and town: and then agai... ...urse be banished for ever, and conse quently along with it those grievous prejudices of educa tion which, under the names of conscience, honour, jus... ...r this charge. But so effectual care hath been since taken to remove those prejudices, by an entire change in the methods of education, that (with hon... ...lies, who, as it falls out, are all Chris tians, and many of them, by the prejudices of their education, so bigoted as to place a sort of pride in th... ...e. The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. Would a wri... ...and Other Short Pieces – Swift Some men, under the notions of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion. In all well instituted...

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...o doubt carried many things with them, such vital but imponderable things as prejudices, principles, laws and 34 V — CONTINUITY beliefs. But even the... ... with such tenacity— since none are more passionate in their convictions and prejudices where anything short of emigration is concerned? They clung to... ...re, at bottom, is everywhere the same, such deep layers of different habits, prejudices, and beliefs have been formed above its foundation that it is ...

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...ir industries, their commerce, their local governments, their passions and prejudices, and their ethics and literature; leaving nothing unnoticed that... ... been mitigated, and the judg- ment of the wise is not subordinated to the prejudices of the ignorant. Other dangers have come. Equality of conditions... ...present, and the only guar- antee for the future. The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance with... ...t the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to ... ...Indian was indebted to no one but himself; his virtues, his vices, and his prejudices were his own work; he had grown up in the wild independence of h... ...nts of North America lived by the pro- duce of the chase. Their implacable prejudices, their uncon- trolled passions, their vices, and still more perh... ...Indian was indebted to no one but himself; his virtues, his vices, and his prejudices were his own work; he had grown up in the wild independence of h... ...nts of North America lived by the pro- duce of the chase. Their implacable prejudices, their uncon- trolled passions, their vices, and still more perh... ... of thought, and stand by his earliest efforts, if we would understand the prejudices, the habits, and the passions which will rule his life. The enti...

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...t prevent her from using it when she wished to try for style. With no more prejudices than an old sau- sage-mill, she would give forth again with pati...

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... understood the mechanism of society too well to clash wan- tonly with its prejudices; for, after all, he was not as powerful as the executioner, but ...

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...ough for it, Sir, ’ rejoined the chairman, ‘and would have been, but for the prejudices of society. Let women have their rights, Sir, and the females...

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...r, which observed the traditional forms but had discarded the underly- ing prejudices; whereas the world she knew had discarded many of the forms and ... ...the world she knew had discarded many of the forms and kept almost all the prejudices. In such an atmosphere as his an eager young woman, curi- ous as... ...f logic to my poor mother’s preju- dices.” “But if you admit that they are prejudices—?” “There are prejudices and prejudices. My mother, of course, g... ...tranger in an old society to err a little on the side of what you call its prejudices but I should rather describe as its traditions.” After that she ... ...nd adhere doggedly to her new posi- tion. She boasted of her old-fashioned prejudices, talked a 88 The Reef good deal of being a grandmother, and mad... ...f with Monsieur de Chantelle’s nationality and adopted French hab- its and prejudices. Y et when anything goes wrong she always sends for Adelaide Pai... ...metics, and, much as she wished to think herself exempt from old-fashioned prejudices, she suddenly became aware that she did not like her daughter’s ...

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...ferent medicine. I know it is difficult to get over local or long stand ing prejudices, yet if we will suffer ourselves to exam ine the component pa... ...o life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight. Though I would carefully avoid giving ...

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...nflexible of all rulers. Tastes, conditions, connections, habits, and even prejudices, unite to form a dynasty that never has yet been dethroned. New ...

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... aspects of their profes- sion. There, as elsewhere, they got rid of a few prejudices to which we cling so fondly in favor of the beauties of our na- ...

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... of life; since you cannot point out one of them in which the passions and prejudices of those who pursue it are not perpetually carry- ing us away fr...

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...n ever be—superstitions, for instance, that degraded the very idea of God; prejudices and false usages, that laid waste human happiness (such as slave... ...e one hand, it seems shocking to me, who am steeped to the lips in antique prejudices, that Greek, in unlimited quan- tities, should not secure a limi... ...al reference to the period of 1640-1660, which is not disfigured by unjust prejudices: and the amount of the moral which the learned editor grounds up... ...nt of veneration and entire affection for the Established Church: the very prejudices and injustice, with which I tax the En- glish clergy, have a gen... ... of an English Opium-Eater magnanimity]; viz. complete conquest over those prejudices which have hitherto discolored the greatest era of patriotic vir... ...adoption an American citizen, yet still French in his heart and in all his prejudices. 188 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater SUP SUP SUP SUP SU...

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...rsts of anger, and apt to be tiresome in argument; he was full of national prejudices, and above all things, would insist that he was in the right, wh... ...ake them conduce to the general welfare of the State. If old-es- tablished prejudices and customs bring a country into a bad way, the people will reno... ..., artificial grasses, and potatoes. My methods did not clash with people’s prejudices. The faultily constructed plowshares in use in some parts of Fra... ... “Once I looked upon the Catholic religion as a cleverly exploited mass of prejudices and superstitions, which an in- telligent civilization ought to ... ...g to tardy regret a legal status to natural children, the insurmount- able prejudices of society bring a strong force to the support of the reluctance... ...s of interest and morality were regarded so seriously by the family, their prejudices were so firmly and deeply rooted, that they never swerved from t...

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...her obstructing inborn heredities, brought down from the old geologic ages—prejudices, let us call them. Prejudices which nothing within the rock it ... ...ve. Will you take note of that phrase? Y.M. Y es. I have written it down; “Prejudices which noth ing within the rock itself had either power to remov... ...k itself had either power to remove or any desire to remove.” Go on. O.M. Prejudices must be removed by outside influences or not at all. Put that d... ...utside influ ences—in the form of lifelong teachings, trainings, notions, prejudices, and other second hand importations—have per suaded the Master ... ... ever made so great a revolution in the mode of thinking, overthrew so may prejudices, introduced so many new opinions. But what we most admire is the...

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...tter and wished to rescue his family name from the posi- tion in which the prejudices of the times had placed it. He himself took willingly enough to ... ...r that rugged nature. For this reason the physician was confident that the prejudices of the noble would thwart the desires and the vows of the father...