She does not like to be blameworthy even in small things: you see how neatly her prayer-book is folded in her spotted handkerchief.
And when events turn out so much better for a man than he has had reason to dread, is it not a proof that his conduct has been less foolish and blameworthy than it might otherwise have appeared?
Therefore nothing which comes by way of origin is blameworthy or sinful.
But he would, if his action were the more blameworthy on account of his goodness.
You may think that he is no more blameworthy than the lawyer who pleads your views so eloquently and who handles the jury with such consummate skill, though his sole incentive is your fee and not your case.
We may admit that the clergy are more blameworthy than the orators of rationalism.
And, far from being subject to blame for this, he would be blameworthy if he did not so.
I know nor pleasure, nor blameworthy converse With any other man more than--bronze-dippings!
No worse or more blameworthy quality than this can be imagined to exist; it is the destroyer of all human perfections and the cause of innumerable vices.
Certain qualities and natures innate in some men and apparently blameworthy are not so in reality.
If so, my retractation is, that if he be excused one way, he must be accused another way; and if he be blameless of ignorance, he is blameworthy for dissimulation.
And so also we are blameworthy or praiseworthy for doing or not doing external actions, so far only as these actions are naturally connected with volitions, as sequents with their stated antecedents.
We are blameworthy or praiseworthy according to the character of the volitions in themselves, considered and judged according to the rule of right, without considering how these volitions came to exist.
Contempt is a legitimate sentiment when it has for its object base and culpable actions; it is a bad and blameworthy passion when it bears upon a pretended inferiority, either of birth, or fortune, or talent, and then belongs to false pride.
There is not a single benevolent inclination which, carried too far and beyond reason, may not become a more or less blameworthy passion.
Let it suffice to say here that these goods being bound up with the very preservation of our existence, the desire and instinct which lead us to appropriate them, have nothing blameworthy in themselves.
This vice, however, should not appear as blameworthy as that of avarice.
Among the vices which may lead to the greatest injustices, and which already in themselves are odious as sentiments, the most blameworthy and the vilest is the passion of envy.
So Jerome to Pope Damasus on the prodigal son: =Priests areblameworthy who, to the neglect of the Gospels, read comedies.
In the first part it is set down that it is not blameworthy if one learns grammar and logic in order to distinguish the true and the false.
In striving, then, for worldly eminence by every means in his power, Alexander is no more blameworthy than any other.
All power and capacity is eligible; if the above were the true genus of thief, it would be a case in which power and capacity is blameworthy and hateful.
But high places to Jehovah, as distinct from those dedicated to idols, were not condemned by the earlier prophets, and the resort to them was never regarded as blameworthybefore the establishment of the central sanctuary.
It has been a matter of dispute among the Rabbis whether Solomon was commendable orblameworthy for contracting this foreign alliance.
I like to believe that, seeing me come to your house so persistently, you have never supposed that I was led to come by a blameworthy desire, a frivolous sentiment.
There are too many people who enjoy doing evil; and it is blameworthy to allow the number to increase!
Adam was no more blameworthy for failing to resist the influence of Eve than the Earth is blameworthy for deviating in its course around the Sun, in obedience to the influences of Venus and Mars.
Like her, many women played heroic orblameworthy parts in the fierce struggle.
It may be blameworthy and anti-social, but it is unhappily natural and almost unavoidable.
There was, of course, nothing blameworthy in their unacquaintanceship with the issues, but only in the offhandedness with which they belittled its consequences.
The proprieties were observed and the Emperor was the first to set that example, but everybody understood that the old man was blameworthy and good-for-nothing.
Hence it is manifest that it is not blameworthy to draw others to the service of God or to the religious life, but only when one gives a bad example to the person converted, whence he becomes worse.
Passions are not sinful in themselves; but they are blameworthy in so far as they are applied to something evil, just as they deserve praise in so far as they are applied to something good.
Therefore it would seem praiseworthy to desire the office of a bishop, and blameworthy to refuse it.
Take not, with Allah, another object of worship, lest thou shouldst be thrown into Hell, blameworthy and rejected.
A King of Britain, for example, may wage a rash war, or make a disgraceful peace, in the lawful, though injudicious and blameworthy exercise of the power vested in him by the constitution.
They were not as blameworthy as they are often assumed to have been, but it is difficult honestly to see how we are to exonerate them from blame altogether.
