5) Moreover, in the Cyclic poems epic is clearly degenerating
morally -- if the expression may be used.
Dead to her uncle, who had renounced her; dead to the servants of the house, who had failed to recognise her; dead to the persons in authority, who had transmitted her fortune to her husband and her aunt; dead to my mother and my sister, who believed me to be the dupe of an adventuress and the victim of a fraud; socially,
morally, legally-- dead.
Things are censured either as impossible, or irrational, or
morally hurtful, or contradictory, or contrary to artistic correctness.
Yes, a man in the nineteenth century must and
morally ought to be pre-eminently a characterless creature; a man of character, an active man is pre-eminently a limited creature.
I fear I am not truly brave myself, for though when under fire, so far as I can recollect, I behaved as others,
morally I seem to be deficient.
Morally, as well as physically, it must be said of Lady Lydiard that her outward side was her worst side.
The whole evidence points to the inference that more than one man was concerned in this crime--and the circumstances, I repeat,
morally justify the conclusion that the Indians committed it.
And here, in his late decline, the lost one had come back out of his long and strange misfortune, and was thrown on her sympathy, as it seemed, not merely for the bread of his physical existence, but for everything that should keep him
morally alive.
I'm just a plain man and nae dancing master; and I'm tryin to be as ceevil as it's
morally possible.
I could have given my own sect the preference and made everybody a Presby- terian without any trouble, but that would have been to affront a law of human nature: spiritual wants and instincts are as various in the human family as are physical appetites, complexions, and features, and a man is only at his best,
morally, when he is equipped with the religious garment whose color and shape and size most nicely accommodate themselves to the spirit- ual complexion, angularities, and stature of the indi- vidual who wears it; and, besides, I was afraid of a united Church; it makes a mighty power, the mightiest conceivable, and then when it by and by gets into selfish hands, as it is always bound to do, it means death to human liberty and paralysis to human thought.
But if I were sure they were raving--as I am
morally certain one, at least, of them is down with fever--I should leave this camp, and at whatever risk to my own carcass, take them the assistance of my skill."
(
morally speaking) expire; after that time, Commander Farragut, faithful to his promise, was to turn the course to the south-east and abandon for ever the northern regions of the Pacific.