A brief description of how the Egyptians were punished through the very things with which they sinned (though the punishment was not fatal, for God loves all things that exist), and how judgments on the Canaanites were executed gradually (so as to give them time to repent), is followed by a dissertation on the origin, various forms, absurdity and results of polytheism and idolatry (xiii.-xv.): the worship of natural objects is said to be less blameworthy than the worship of images - this latter, arising from the desire to honour dead children and living kings (the Euhemeristic theory), is inherently absurd, and led to all sorts of moral depravity.   anvd [Please select]

He, of course, was blameworthy, not this soft bit of unthinking femininity.   anvd [Please select]

Well then, that excess with respect to pleasures is absence of self-control, and blameworthy, is plain.   anvd [Please select]

But I remembered how blameworthy I myself had held the equery for interfering with M.   anvd [Please select]

But I doubt not you are both blameworthy.   anvd [Please select]

Except as a convenient principle of arrangement of the various forms of praiseworthy or blameworthy characters, generally acknowledged as such by Greek opinion, this form of the doctrine is of no great significance.   anvd [Please select]

That Self-Control and Endurance belong to the class of things good and praiseworthy, while Imperfect Self-Control and Softness belong to that of things low and blameworthy.   anvd [Please select]