Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be ab...le to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am apt to think, if we knew what it was to be an angel for one hour, we should return to this world, though it were to sit on th...e brightest throne in it, with vastly more loathing and reluctance than we would now descend into a loathsome dungeon or sepulchre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I often used to think myself in the case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the chase as if some un...heard-of blessing was to crown his success, finds at last all he has got by his labor is a stinking nauseous animal. But my condition was yet worse than his; for he leaves the loathsome wretch to be torn by his hounds, whilst I was obliged to fondle mine, and meanly pretend him to be the object of my love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume ...thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age,... Where pride and impudence in faction knit Usurp the chair of wit: Indicting and arraigning every day, Something they call a play. Let their fastidious, vain Commission of the brain, Run on and rage, sweat, censure, and condemn: They were not made for thee, less thou for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and de...gradation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
because you lied to God outrightly-- told him that all things on earth were in order--... He turned his wrath upon you and said, I will make you the most loathsome....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »