The notion that his allegations may be no more than calumny, or suspicion without substance doesn't seem to bother him. When I buy Frank magazine and pass it around, I am doing evil for I am sharing in the sin of detraction and calumny.īut I will put my trust in the American system, where fabrication and concoction may work for awhile, but sooner or later the calumny is exposed. What ethical responsibility does a bulletin board system bear towards publishing this calumny? He defended his beliefs with vigour, but in the end was overwhelmed by the flood of insult and calumny to which he was subjected. Scandal, woe and calumny struck the otherwise genteel junior school carol concert last night. Upon publication, he sued the newspaper for calumny because he was financially secure and was not in the shop-sign business.Īs the first barrister briefed in that seminal case, it behoves me to respond to this ignorant calumny. We believe we must treat politicians and those who govern with disrespect, with abuse, with calumny and sometimes untruth. In a media world aswirl with public condemnation and calumny, a few journalists tried with difficulty to keep their heads. Generally esteemed as these people are for their saving qualities, frugal, simple and abstemious habits, an annual departure from the established rule is not unjustifiable.Some people will tell you that it rains in Wales most days but that's a vicious calumny.Dunton had at The Anchor a good fowl and a bottle of sack, instead of the beer and cakes of the abstemious Puritan governor.I'm going to see, but when I'm reasonably abstemious I'm not given to ingrowing nerves.These last boons may have arisen from the economical and abstemious life which the bishop lived, in order to devote his income to the cathedral building.If you care to use yourself to it you may work in the greatest heat and feel very few ill effects from it if you are abstemious in the taking of liquids.In spite of the family failing, or, perhaps, because it was the only thing he feared, Thurston had been an abstemious man.His demeanour was gentle and modest his habits, as to sleep, food, and exercise, abstemious and regular.His favorite articles of food were tea, bread and butter, and baked apples and he was even abstemious in the use of these.He swore very rarely, he was abstemious with wines and spirits, and he loved books better than food itself.
He was the most abstemious of men, but on reaching his den he poured out a fairly strong brandy and soda and drank it at a draught.While he entertained so well, he was himself abstemious in his habits and denied himself animal food one day in every week.On the same principle, the gormandizer needs more of this element than the person of abstemious habits.George so far resembled him that both at school and college he had been a rather careful and abstemious boy.He is, unlike most Persians of high class, abstemious as regards both food and drink.That this shoold bee in man, nay in man vowed Unto a strickt abstemious chastity!.You must make up your mind to lead a regular, quiet, abstemious life, avoiding all excitement.I think I have retained the vigor of my mind more, in consequence of an abstemious diet.Yet I would advise all lofty spirits to be abstemious in their use of noble indignation.The sisterhood, abstemious nearly all the days of the year, feasted on certain high holidays.The performer who would be at his best must live a very careful, almost abstemious life.After a few years, he ventured to change his abstemious diet for one more rich and stimulating.
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