There was no deep insight into causes and effects necessary to foresee that such a situation of things was likely to prove highly
prejudicial to their future movements.
He said, "he knew no reason why those, who entertain opinions
prejudicial to the public, should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them.
Senor," replied Sancho, "let your worship send all such oaths to the devil, for they are very pernicious to salvation and
prejudicial to the conscience; just tell me now, if for several days to come we fall in with no man armed with a helmet, what are we to do?
For if it happened that an individual, even when asleep, had some very distinct idea, as, for example, if a geometer should discover some new demonstration, the circumstance of his being asleep would not militate against its truth; and as for the most ordinary error of our dreams, which consists in their representing to us various objects in the same way as our external senses, this is not
prejudicial, since it leads us very properly to suspect the truth of the ideas of sense; for we are not infrequently deceived in the same manner when awake; as when persons in the jaundice see all objects yellow, or when the stars or bodies at a great distance appear to us much smaller than they are.
The members of the confederacy are expressly restricted from entering into compacts
prejudicial to the empire; from imposing tolls and duties on their mutual intercourse, without the consent of the emperor and diet; from altering the value of money; from doing injustice to one another; or from affording assistance or retreat to disturbers of the public peace.
Some of the older courtiers remembered having seen his father, but their recollections were not
prejudicial to the son.
These are not considered
prejudicial to health, since both the natives and the whites sleep in the open air with perfect impunity.
I fear that the incident must have a very
prejudicial effect upon his career.
His large whiskers, imposing swagger, and swing of the leg, made him a striking figure; but his suit of black, rather shabby at the edges, caused the
prejudicial inference that he was not able to afford himself as much indulgence as he liked.
Talking," the elder man remarked with a slight shrug of his shoulders, "will never have a
prejudicial effect upon my health.
Mr Bonney then presented himself to move the first resolution; and having run his right hand through his hair, and planted his left, in an easy manner, in his ribs, he consigned his hat to the care of the gentleman with the double chin (who acted as a species of bottle- holder to the orators generally), and said he would read to them the first resolution--'That this meeting views with alarm and apprehension, the existing state of the Muffin Trade in this Metropolis and its neighbourhood; that it considers the Muffin Boys, as at present constituted, wholly underserving the confidence of the public; and that it deems the whole Muffin system alike
prejudicial to the health and morals of the people, and subversive of the best interests of a great commercial and mercantile community.
From the name of my patron, indeed, I hope my reader will be convinced, at his very entrance on this work, that he will find in the whole course of it nothing
prejudicial to the cause of religion and virtue, nothing inconsistent with the strictest rules of decency, nor which can offend even the chastest eye in the perusal.
