In the more considerable of the elegiac fragments which have survived, he ridicules the doctrine of the migration of souls (xviii.), asserts the claims of wisdom against the prevalent athleticism, which seemed to him to conduce neither to the good government of states nor to their material prosperity (xix), reprobates the introduction of Lydian luxury into Colophon (xx.), and recommends the reasonable enjoyment of social pleasures (xxi.). [Please select]
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Shoals of phrenologists, fortune-tellers, and the like, generally drunken old reprobates on their last legs, plied their trades. [Please select]
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One of the young reprobates sent up to him and whispered in his ear, "Cotton, thou art an old fool." [Please select]
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A set of crawling sycophants, sir--a gang of young reprobates and bullies. [Please select]
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But I expect nothing but that both will become heretics as well as disobedient reprobates;'--that was her addition to that argument.' [Please select]
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These reprobates delight in telling thrilling tales of their escapes from Indians, and are constantly chilling the blood of their shivering party by pointing out spots where imaginary murders took place. [Please select]
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Yet what is it but a lovely woman chiding, with sweet, austere composure, the lover for whose affection she is grateful, but whose vices she reprobates. [Please select]
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