But Miss Margland, though she spared not the most severe attacks upon the already self-condemned and nearly demolished Camilla, always found something relative to herself that was more pressing than what could regard any other, and declared she could not stir from town till she received an answer from Sir Hugh. ❋ Unknown (2008)
There is little occasion for such a step; I am depressed, I am self-condemned already; spare me, therefore, this insupportable humiliation, wound me not with your scorn, oppress me not with your superiority! ❋ Unknown (2008)
In one word, if you do as I say, you will do what is just to the Mytilenaeans, and also what is expedient for yourselves; but, if you take the opposite course, they will not be grateful to you, and you will be self-condemned. ❋ Thucydides (2007)
Could anything be so false, so weak, so malignant, so useless, so wicked, so self-condemned, — in fact, so ‘Liberal’ as a course of action such as this? ❋ Unknown (2004)
A council seeking a clear statement of what was taken for granted as a measure of orthodoxy might well look not only to earlier regulae or to the shape of the baptismal interrogation but to the eucharistic prayer; a theology identified as failing to comply with the pattern of such a prayer would stand self-condemned as a failure in piety, not simply in accuracy. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A woman of no pride of station; a woman who loved a man not only of my own class but of my own blood — a woman, to avenge whose unmerited death I stand here before you a self-condemned criminal. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Anything was welcome to her — the trivial difficulties of fitting a gown: the small, ceaseless chatter of the poor half-witted creature who was so proud of her assistance, and so happy in her company — anything was welcome that shut her out from the coming future, from the destiny to which she stood self-condemned. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The fact indeed is, that they endeavour to learn none of these, although they maintain that it is incumbent on them to have experience of every kind of work; but, turning aside to voluptuousness, and lust, and abominable actions, they stand self-condemned when they are tried by their own doctrine. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
Church, and give heed to such old wives 'fables as these, are truly self-condemned; and these men Paul commands us, "after a first and second admonition, to avoid." ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
Lord; yea, he despises the Father also, and stands self-condemned, resisting and opposing his own salvation, as is the case with all heretics. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
None of this is getting any attention, because the small group of extremist who are hijacking this conference and the large number of delegates who haven't got the backbone to stand up and tell them that we have had enough of it, combined, see to it that the conference against discrimination itself becomes a discriminatory conference and will stand in the history books self-condemned. ❋ Unknown (2001)
I have not yet done what I vowed to do, I should go back self-condemned and contemptible. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1988)
He forgot that he was a man self-condemned, with only a brief but strangely tranquil life before him, and she a young heiress with a manor double the value of Aspley, and grown suddenly beautiful. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1983)
Truly, he that cannot answer this reproof of God will be cast out as a speechless, self-condemned person. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
That of Paul, affirming that some men are self-condemned, is quite of another nature. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
Some things, indeed, are so clearly in the Scripture laid down and determined, that to question or deny them bespeaks a spirit self-condemned in that which he doth profess. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
This, or something of this nature, seems to be but a very reasonable inquiry for a guilty self-condemned sinner, when first he entertains thoughts of an agreement with the holy sin-avenging God. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
The thought of the Deity bursting in upon the mind, immediately every sinner stands confessed a debtor, — a guilty and self-condemned criminal. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
