Moralists
[mɔ:rəlɪsts]
Examples
- I wondered why moralists call this world a dreary wilderness: for me it blossomed like a rose. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Some moralists account for all the sentiments of virtue by this sense. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- They extend not beyond a mistake of fact, which moralists have not generally supposed criminal, as being perfectly involuntary. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Some notorious carpers and squeamish moralists might be sulky with Lord Steyne, but they were glad enough to come when he asked them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I appeal to moralists and sages. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The older moralists, the taboo philosophers believed that the desires themselves were inherently evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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