"Free-living" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in his lifelong concern for Providence was his conviction that the doctrine was the most powerful check on immorality, and that to deny it was to remove the strongest restraint on the evil side of human nature. There is no doubt that the free-living people of the time welcomed the arguments which called Providence in question, and Bossuet believed that to champion Providence was the most efficient means of opposing the libertine tendencies of his day. ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury
... these free-living men, who love to tread in intricate paths; and, when once they err, know not how far out of the way their headstrong ...
— Clarissa, Volume 7 • Samuel Richardson
... filth and wretchedness so many human beings were condemned to suffer from in Russia. The point of this discovery was that it proved Haldin to have been familiar with that horse-owning peasant—a reckless, independent, free-living fellow not much liked by the other inhabitants of the house. He was believed to have been the associate of a band of housebreakers. Some of these got captured. Not while he was driving them, however; but still there was a suspicion against the fellow of having given a ...
— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad |
