To be sure when we consider that I DID take some pains to prevent my brother-in-law's marrying her, this want of cordiality is not very surprizing, and yet it shows an
illiberal and vindictive spirit to resent a project which influenced me six years ago, and which never succeeded at last.
Their tendency is gross and
illiberal; and if their construction could ever be deemed clever, time has long ago destroyed all its ingenuity."
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and
illiberal distrust.
Her father, captivated by youth and beauty, and that appearance of good humour which youth and beauty generally give, had married a woman whose weak understanding and
illiberal mind had very early in their marriage put and end to all real affection for her.
Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be
illiberal and cross.
Within an ace of being Count was he, And would have been but for the spite and gall Of this vile age, mean and
illiberal, That cannot even let a donkey be.
Such is the subject of the institute, And universal body of the law: This study fits a mercenary drudge, Who aims at nothing but external trash; Too servile and
illiberal for me.
Nobody doubts it; and I hope you do not think I am so
illiberal as to want every man to have the same objects and pleasures as myself.
Indeed, fearful of the populists' power, in or out of government, the response from mainstream conservatives - and even some social democrats - to their
illiberal views has already been inexcusably soft.
Without such reform public anger towards an undemocratic,
illiberal, protectionist and corrupt European Union is only likely to grow.
He said: "The government is already wasting pounds 97,000 a day on an expensive,
illiberal ID card scheme...
A more helpful way to analyze the region's political scene is by contrasting liberal and
illiberal political forces.