"Unprofitableness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hand, there is an annulling of the commandment that went before, on account of its weakness and unprofitableness,—(19)for the law perfected nothing,—and on the other the bringing in of a better hope, by which ...
— The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. • Various
... cotton of South Carolina, she will not be disposed to encourage Louisiana to a competition in sugar with her own Jamaica. Virginia will hardly brook the opening of a rival Dahomey which shall cheapen into unprofitableness her rearing of slaves. While fighting is to be done, these questions are in abeyance; but so soon as men come to ask what they are fighting for, they revive. There is selfishness inherent in the very idea ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 48, October, 1861 • Various
... from denying it," said Carlton; "but all systems have their defects; no polity, no theology, no ritual is perfect. One only came directly and simply from Heaven, the Jewish; and even that was removed because of its unprofitableness. This is no derogation from the perfection of Divine Revelation, for it arises from the subject-matter on and through which it operates." There was a pause; then Carlton went on: "It is the fault of ...
— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman
... practical usefulness of reservoirs to agriculture in the irrigated region of the United States, especially as affecting the distribution of water to crops, the area and value of reclaimed land, and the stability and unprofitableness of farming ...
— Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. • William McKinley
... — N. unproductiveness &c adj.; infertility, sterility, infecundity^; masturbation; impotence &c 158; unprofitableness &c (inutility) 645. waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness. V. be unproductive &c adj.; hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing. [make unproductive] sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate. Adj. unproductive, acarpous^, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |
