When the god of drunkenness, debauch and theater comes to town, expect a party.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Fearful of secularization and feeling culturally besieged, they have thrown in with a president who embodies that old early-1980s debauch.
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Recently widowed, Dick drags Jason to Florida on the pretense of having a nostalgic trip, but it soon becomes a reckless debauch.
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While his young mistress was sleeping yesterday the parrot took off the lava tip in her room and started on a gas debauch.
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency… [he] was certainly right.
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A subplot involving two novices at a local convent whom the French seek to debauch starts out promisingly, yet, like everything else in the play, leads nowhere.
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But must every incident become a drama pitting sanctimonious outsiders against one another in an ugly debauch of hate, name-calling and vituperation against the already wounded survivors?
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To avoid going to jail, King, Corley, and Vance pleaded guilty to charges relating to a Michigan law from 1846, admitting they did "seduce and debauch" an unmarried woman.
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" One early critic noted that "there is such a debauch of virtue in Icaria that a two-fisted encounter between a pair of rascals would bring a reader the desired sigh of relief.
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But the other monarch (Vincent Cassel)—the one who wakes amid the jetsam of an orgy, staggering through half-naked slumberers and seeking his next debauch—would have tipped poor Uncle Walt into a swoon.
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Filmmakers who debauch ballet know not what they doeth, but there's no excuse for those inside the dance world to pimp the notion that ballet is a vale of martyrdom, and not just for the dancers.
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Narrow and brightly lit, with ceiling-high shelves on one side, coolers on the other and a deli counter at the rear, the store was a curated vegan debauch: dairy-free chocolate, pizzas made with cashew cheese and rice-milk ice cream.
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Kim Vaz-Deville, an associate dean at Xavier University of Louisiana who has studied carnival, said that Zulu's use of the black men wearing blackface is a satirical weapon subtly wielded against an exclusionary white society in the midst of the annual grand debauch.
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But Barack Obama was the Toronto crowd's favorite for M.V.P. [Sports Illustrated] A disco-themed party complete with an Andy Warhol look-alike, a Hieronymus Bosch-inspired debauch featuring whiskey infused with the body of a dead cobra and a "Great Gatsby" soiree with trapeze performers?
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Almost every piece on the program included an element of staging: Instrumental solos were subtly choreographed; musicians burst into wild song while playing; the entire ensemble — save the cellos — rose to its feet for the breathless "Le Corsaire" Overture and for the final movement of "Harold," which depicts a debauch of brigands.
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Astor did not debauch, spoliate, and incite slaughter because he took pleasure in doing them.
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No, you are not to believe they remained, retaining all their senses, to witness this pyretic debauch of high society.
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In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured pace. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile, the accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy. Lt. Poletaev (Yevgeny Mironov) is an irrepressible character.
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In some of her works she bemoans the double standard that allowed men to debauch themselves without a mark on their character whilst women receive "perpetual odium".Lonsdale, Roger (ed) (1990). Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. Oxford University Press. pp. 234,527. .
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The state Supreme Court wasn't swayed. The Chief Justice wrote that Holmes was "a scandalous and evil disposed person" who had contrived to "debauch and corrupt" the citizens of Massachusetts and "to raise and create in their minds inordinate and lustful desires".
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The motivation of a rake to change his libertinistic ways is either hypocritical (falsewits) or honest (truewits). In other words, penitent rakes among the falsewits only abandon their way of life for financial reasons, while penitent truewits ever so often succumb to the charms of the witty heroine and, at least, go through the motions of vowing constancy. Another typology distinguishes between the "polite rake" and the "debauch", using criteria of social class and style. In this case, the young, witty, and well-bred male character, who dominates the drawing rooms, is in sharp contrast to a contemptible debauch, who indulges in fornication, alcoholism, and hypocrisy.
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George Sansom thus describes this move on the part of the shogunate a "fatal blunder" and describes Takatoki as "scarcely sane. His judgement was poor, his conduct erratic. He indulged in extremes of luxury and debauch". Upon retirement, he handed over his duties to "certain unworthy deputies".
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Arun too arrives to save his uncle and aunt. Shekhar tries to molest Chaitali while she kills the debauch in self-defence. Arun takes blame and voluntary goes to jail for 4 years. After getting released Ajoy and Arun come to Joydeb's house to take Tithi with them.
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Hodge also wrote, with Daniel Pedoe, a three-volume work Methods of Algebraic Geometry, on classical algebraic geometry, with much concrete content – illustrating though what Élie Cartan called 'the debauch of indices' in its component notation. According to Atiyah, this was intended to update and replace H. F. Baker's Principles of Geometry.
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Priest Zosimus - Priest who finds Thais and Judah in the desert. He believes that Thais is a prophet or saint who speaks the word of Mary. "He looked at me as though I were a leper. 'You couldn't enter the house of our Lord,' he whispered, 'because you debauch your body with men'" (pg. 384).
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By 1759, she was unable to continue business, and the lease on the King's Head passed to a relative, Amelia Douglas. Jane was described as "much bloated by Drink and Debauch...her Legs swelled out of shape...suffering great discomfort". She died on 10 June 1761 leaving a considerable estate. The contents of her house were sold off by her friend, the auctioneer, Abraham Langford.
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Mirza Muhammad Mu'izz-ud-Din ( ;9 May 1661 – 12 February 1713), more commonly known as Jahandar Shah (), was a Mughal Emperor who ruled for a brief period in 1712–1713. His full title was Shahanshah-i-Ghazi Abu'l Fath Mu'izz-ud-Din Muhammad Jahandar Shah Sahib-i-Qiran Padshah-i-Jahan (Khuld Aramgah). Sailendra Sen describes him as "a worthless debauch [who] became emperor after liquidating his three brothers".
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It was for this reason that Montreal and the Ottawa River was a central location of indigenous warfare and rivalry. Montreal faced difficulties by having too many coureurs out in the woods. The furs coming down were causing an oversupply on the markets of Europe. This challenged the coureurs trade because they so easily evaded controls, monopolies, and taxation, and additionally because the coureurs trade was held to debauch both French and various indigenous groups.
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She tells him that he is a debauch spending time with loose character women who sell themselves for the price of a shawl. A message arrives for him that Sakina is not well. He insists on bringing her home in the hope of taking good care of her. Rupa sees a young woman who is Sakina's Aunt accompanying them in the buggy and jumps to the conclusion that she's the woman called Sakina with whom Inder spends his time.
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Mary Wollstonecraft, who reviewed the novel anonymously for the Analytical Review did not agree with the majority of reviewers, however. She "lamented" "that the false expectations these wild scenes excite, tend to debauch the mind, and throw an insipid kind of uniformity over the moderate and rational prospects of life, consequently adventures are sought for and created, when duties are neglected, and content despised." However, she did single out the virtuous character of Mrs. Stafford for praise.
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Louise Bogan, writing for Nation, surmised that while "the book's great beauties, its wonderful passages of wit, its variety, its mark of genius and immense learning are undeniable [...], to read the book over a long period of time gives one the impression of watching intemperance become addiction, become debauch" and argued that "Joyce's delight in reducing man's learning, passion, and religion to a hash is also disturbing."Bogan, Louise. Finnegans Wake Review. Nation, cxlviii, 6 May 1939. pp. 533–535.
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S——, who comes over full > of plans and machinations of mischief. He has had the most unreserved and > unlimited confidence of Lord Dartmouth, during the whole of the past winter, > and it seems for some time before; and together with a contemptible puppy of > a parson, V——, has been contriving to debauch, seduce, and corrupt New- > York.John Adams to Joseph Palmer, 5 July 1775 After giving parole, Skene and his son lived with Sarah Hooker at her house in West Hartford, Connecticut.
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However, one day Neophron learnt that his mother had allowed Aegypius to debauch her, and became one of his many mistresses. Heartbroken and furious, he plotted revenge against Aegypius by tricking him into laying with his very own mother, Bulis, who Aegypius believed to be Timandra, in a proverbial (or mythological) “dark chamber”. Similar themes of incestuous entrapment or of unwitting incest often recur in Greek folklore. Cronus and Rhea's siblings, the other Titans, were all also married siblings like Nyx and Erebus.
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The charges read out in the central criminal court stated "[that the defendants] conspiring with certain other young persons to produce a magazine containing obscene, lewd, indecent and sexually perverted articles, cartoons and drawings with intent to debauch and corrupt the morals of children and other young persons and to arouse and implant in their minds lustful and perverted ideas".The Times, 23 June 1971. According to Mr Brian Leary, prosecuting, "It dealt with homosexuality, lesbianism, sadism, perverted sexual practices and drug taking".
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On the train to his new job, he meets an English family, the Nicholsons, also traveling to Barcelona. The daughter, Molly, becomes infatuated with Garrett. His feelings towards her are more ambiguous. The next player in this drama is Pepita. A fiery and lovely poor woman, Pepita works in a brothel since “I can’t keep body and soul together on what is paid by shoe stores.” Garrett meets her when he and his new coworkers end a drunken debauch by visiting her place of employment.
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Borromini was basest of all: "He had endeavoured to debauch Mankind with his odd and chimerical beauties, where the parts are without proportion, Solids without their true Bearing, Heaps of materials without strength, excessive ornamentation without grace, and the whole without symmetry." Seaton Delaval Hall by Sir John Vanbrugh, 1718. Although Wren was also active in secular architecture, the first truly Baroque country house in England was built to a design by William Talman at Chatsworth, starting in 1687. The culmination of Baroque architectural forms comes with Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor.
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According to the tale, Date Tsunamune, the young daimyō of Mutsu, visited the Yoshiwara as the result of a dispute involving family politics. His uncle sought to undermine his reputation in order to replace Date Tsunamune with the uncle's son, and indirectly encouraged Date Tsunamune to debauch himself in the pleasure quarters. Date Tsunamune fell in love with Takao, but Takao rejected him, as she had promised to marry her lover at the end of her contract with the brothel. Tsunamune offered to buy out her contract by paying gold equal to her weight.
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Dunstan's Life alleges that on the banquet following the solemnity of his coronation at Kingston (Surrey), Eadwig left the table and retreated to his chamber to debauch himself with two women, an indecent noblewoman (quaedam, licet natione præcelsa, inepta tamen mulier), later identified as Æthelgifu, and her daughter of ripe age (adulta filia). They are said to have attached themselves to him "obviously in order to join and ally herself or else her daughter to him in lawful marriage.".B, Vita S. Dunstani § 21, tr. Dorothy Whitelock, English Historical Documents, p. 901.
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Cap-grossos during Festa Major 2012. Carnaval, held in late February, culminates in a week-long debauch of dances, masquerades, social satire, mock battles, permitted disrespect, feasts, processions, and pranks all in honor of Sa Majastat el Rei Carnestoltes (His Majesty the King Carnival) also known as the "king of the senseless" celebrated for his prodigious sexual prowess and devastating satire. Up to a third of the population participates in Les Comparses, a couples dance in which rival groups hurl hard candies at one another in what is called the Sweet War.
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On 13 April 1660 the Council of State issued a warrant to Serjeant James Norfolk to apprehend Courtenay and bring him in custody before the Council, and the next day ordered the Serjeant by another warrant to receive into custody in Lambeth House, Adjutant General William Allen and Hugh Courtenay "for endeavouring to debauch some of the soldiers from their obedience, and otherwise suspected of being dangerous to the State". On 19 June 1661 Secretary Nicholas ordered their release from the Gatehouse, on security of £1,000 to leave the kingdom within 15 days.
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As described in a film magazine, a hunchback is employed as an organist at an Episcopal church and at other times works as a school teacher. In the latter work he is associated with a young woman, with whom he is very infatuated. A London man of sporting tendencies quickly wins over the woman with his polished manners and ardent courtship and he marries her. After the wedding the husband goes back to the ways of his bachelorhood, frequenting the public places and spending his time in one prolonged debauch.
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Especially not Woman in a Dressing-gown anyhow, in spite of its acting prize? at the recent Berlin Festival. That just goes to show that the Germans have no idea either.... From beginning to end the film is an incredible debauch of camera movements as complex as they are silly and meaningless." On the film's rerelease on in 2012, Peter Bradshaw, in a five star review for The Guardian wrote that the films "proto-kitchen-sink drama goes all the way where Brief Encounter loitered hesitantly....and unlike David Lean's film, this one shows people saying the relevant things out loud.
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Later, economist John Maynard Keynes described the effects of inflationism: > Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist > system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, > governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of > the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but > they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it > actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches > strikes not only at security but [also] at confidence in the equity of the > existing distribution of wealth.
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Loeb Classical Library (1935) He also posed as an author and patron of literature; his poems, severely criticized by Philoxenus, were hissed at the Olympic games, but having gained a prize for a tragedy on the Ransom of Hector at the Lenaea at Athens, he was so elated that he engaged in a debauch which, according to some sources, proved fatal. His name is also known for the legend of Damon and Pythias, and he features indirectly (via his son) in the legend of the Sword of Damocles. The Ear of Dionysius in Syracuse is an artificial limestone cave named after Dionysius.
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Port Soderick, arguably the model for the location of Castle Raa Mary and Martin soon fall in love. This frightens the highly moral and religious Mary and so she flees back to Ellan. However, Alma and Lord Raa's entourage accompany Mary and her husband and their home is given over to the debauch of the drinking, gambling and immoral living. Mary makes unsuccessful enquiries about getting a divorce and returns to find the house vacated of guests, as they have ominously gone off on a cruise when it was discovered that Martin was coming to visit.
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Keynes predicted the causes of high inflation and economic stagnation in postwar Europe: > Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist > System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, > governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of > the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but > they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it > actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches > strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the > existing distribution of wealth.
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They found in the vicinity of these rapids a > herb, which they took, from the appearance of its leaves and flowers, to be > Lungwort [ Russian : Медуница : Medunitsa ] and so used the leaves in the > preparation of a vegetable soup and the roots to make a purée and, partaking > of these dishes, grew so utterly intoxicated that they knew not what they > were doing. When they had returned to their senses, they named these falls > The Drunken Rapids and, because one suffers a headache after such a debauch, > they named the falls that they encountered next Pokhmelnoy Porog [ Russian: > Похмельной Порог : The Hungover Rapids ].
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Many of the interior walls, ramps and terraces of the citadel seen today were built in his time. Abou’l Fidá and Ibn al-Wardi record that, among the important events which took place in the year A.H 746 (1345), was the promulgation of a military decree which was set up by order of the Mamluk Sultan al-Kamil Sha'ban in the citadels of Aleppo, Tripoli, Hisn al-Akrâd and other fortified places. The decree, put over the second entrance way of the citadel of Tripoli, is by far the best preserved. Apparently this sultan, who lived a life of luxury and debauch, was in constant need of extra revenues.
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In 1859, a Miss Adelaide Lucy Fenton, was a party to a legal case brought against Colonel John Alexander Forbes which alleged that he had, on 23 June 1859, "unlawfully and wickedly utter and publish an obscene and indecent letter, with intent to debauch and corrupt Adelaide Lucy Fenton, and with intent to incite her to commit a breach of the peace." The case was widely reported in the press of the day. Miss Fenton was described as "a lady, well known in fashionable circles, and much esteemed in Bath." Miss Fenton deposed that she was an unmarried lady residing at 3 Montpelier, Bath and not at all acquainted with the defendant.
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' 'A silver stream [the Alder stream, aka river Enborne] washes the foot of the village; health, pleasure, and refreshment are the ingredients that qualify this spring; no debauch, or intoxication, arises from its source.' 'Nature has been very indulgent to this country, and has given it enough of wood and water; the first we have here in good plenty, and a power of having more of the latter, as improvements are undertaken.' 'Here are temptations to riding and walking. I go out every evening to take a view of the country; the villages are the neatest I ever saw; every cottage is tight; has a little garden, and is sheltered by fine trees...' The Letters of Mrs.
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Those to whom the system brings windfalls, > beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become > "profiteers," who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the > inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the > inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from > month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which > form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as > to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into > a gamble and a lottery. Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no > surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the > currency.
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' 'A silver stream [the Alder stream, aka River Enborne] washes the foot of the village [Newtown]; health, pleasure, and refreshment are the ingredients that qualify this spring; no debauch, or intoxication, arises from its source.' 'Nature has been very indulgent to this country, and has given it enough of wood and water; the first we have here in good plenty, and a power of having more of the latter, as improvements are undertaken.' 'Here are temptations to riding and walking. I go out every evening to take a view of the country; the villages are the neatest I ever saw; every cottage is tight; has a little garden, and is sheltered by fine trees...' The Letters of Mrs.
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English Presbyterian minister John Taylor wrote in The Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin (1750) that "a Representative, the Guilt of whose Conduct shall be imputed to us, and whose Sins shall corrupt and debauch our Nature, is one of the greatest Absurdities in all the System of corrupt Religion. ... [Anyone] who dares use his Understanding, must clearly see this is unreasonable, and altogether inconsistent with the Truth, and Goodness of God." In 1758, Edwards published The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin Defended to defend the Reformed view against the attacks of Taylor and others by showing that all of mankind was complicit in the fall. Edwards found a harmony of the will between Adam (as the head) and the rest of humanity.
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The minimum age of consent in Cameroon is 16, as specified in article 346 of the 2016 penal code. However, article 344 of the same code states; "Whoever, in order to satisfy the desires of another person, habitually excites, encourages or facilitates the debauch or corruption of any person under (?) years of age...". This appears subjective as to what acts, in what situations, may be considered to encourage debauchery or corruption (when involving minors aged 16 or above). An additional concern—and the reason for the question mark above—is that the original French version of the text lists the age of persons who may not be corrupted as those "under 21" (the age of majority in Cameroon), but the English version lists the age as "under 18".
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After Florida became a territory of the United States in 1821, the Territorial Legislature enacted laws against fornication, adultery, bigamy, and incest, as well as against "open lewdness, or...any notorious act of public indecency, tending to debauch the morals of society." Florida's first specific sodomy law, which was enacted in 1868 and made sodomy a felony, read: "Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with mankind or with beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding twenty years." In 1917, the Florida Legislature added a lesser crime, a second-degree misdemeanor: "Whoever commits any unnatural and lascivious act with another person shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months." Homosexuality was not addressed specifically in the 1917 law.
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Similarly, historian Chittaranjan Nepali considered that in addition to the realization of the motive of Nepali Bharadars to detain Rana Bahadur's retinue in Banaras, Bhimsen also had fully realized the real meaning of the system of protectorates adopted by the East India Company Government. Meanwhile, Rajrajeshwari, perhaps due to frustration over her debauch husband, or due to political reasons, left Varanasi, entered the border of Nepal on 26 July 1801, and taking advantage of the weak regency, was slowly making her way towards Kathmandu with the view of taking over the regency. Back in Kathmandu, the court politics turned complicated when Mulkaji (or chief minister) Kirtiman Singh Basnyat, a favorite of the Regent Subarnaprabha, was secretly assassinated on 28 September 1801, by the supporters of Rajrajeswori. In the resulting confusion, many courtiers were jailed, while some executed, based solely on rumors.
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An elaborate intrigue was set in motion with the aim of splitting the unity of courtiers in Kathmandu Durbar and fomenting anti-British feelings. A flurry of letters were exchanged between the ex-King and individual courtiers in which he tried to set them up against Damodar Pande and tried to woo them by promises of high government positions, which they could hold for their entire life, and which could be inherited by their progeny. Meanwhile, Rajrajeshowri, fed up of her debauch husband, left Varanasi, entered the border of Nepal on 26 July 1801, and taking advantage of the weak regency, was slowly making her way towards Kathmandu with the view of taking over the regency. Back in Kathmandu the court politics turned complicated when Mul Kaji (or chief minister) Kirtiman Singh Basnet, a favorite of the Regent Subarnaprabha, was secretly assassinated on 28 September 1801, by the supporters of Rajrajeswori.
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Fearing legal retribution for this theft, Wadzek, accompanied by Schneemann, flees with his wife Pauline and daughter Herta to his house in Reinickendorf, where the two men fortify the house in delusional preparation for a siege that never comes. Financially and spiritually broken, Wadzek returns to Berlin and with Schneemann attempts to turn himself in at a police station, where they learn that no warrant has even been issued for their arrest. There follows a temporary reconciliation with his estranged family and the first attempts to begin a new career in education—Wadzek would instruct his students in a new, moralistic and humane approach to technology. However, after walking in on an erotically and exotically charged debauch held in his own parlor (the aftermath of an African-themed birthday party Pauline held with her two new friends from Reinickendorf), Wadzek suffers a further breakdown.
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Francis Place reported that, as a boy, he had seen "two or three horses at the door of the Dog and Duck in St George's Fields on a summer evening, and people waiting to see the Highwaymen mount ... flashy women come out to take leave of the thieves at dusk and wish them success". In 1787, renewal of the licence was therefore refused by the Surrey magistrates following a proclamation from George III against drunkenness. They decided "too many people assembled there of very loose character, and that it consequently became a receptacle for disorderly persons, and a place of assignation destructive of that morality which it was the duty of the law to see preserved". However, the landlord applied to the City of London magistrates, who granted a licence despite its being a house "so notorious as a resort for amusement and debauch".
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The Earl of Berkeley then decided to sue Lord Grey and his accomplices for conspiring to debauch his daughter. The prosecution charged Grey with "inveigling the Lady Henrietta Berkeley away, and causing her to live an ungodly and profligate life, carrying her about from place to place, and obscuring her in secret places, to the displeasure of Almighty God, the utter ruin of the young lady, the evil example to others, offending against the king's peace, his crown and dignity". At the court of the King's Bench, when the jury were about to retire to consider the case, Berkeley sensationally announced that she had left her home of her own free will and declared that she was now the wife of a William Turner, who happened to be a servant of Grey. The Lord Chief Justice, Francis Pemberton, told her "You have injured your own reputation, and prostituted both your body and your honour, and are not to be believed".
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Gin Lane (1751) by William Hogarth Among the principal causes for the dangers of the streets of London, Moreton lists the abuse of alcohol specifically geneva or gin. In the Gin Era of 1720–50 very cheap liquors were sold indiscriminately, often resulting in a debauch of spirit-drinking, whose effects were seen on the streets, in the workhouses, in the growing misery of the poor and in an increase of criminality and violent acts. Moreton argues that this wicked trade will be the doom of the English nation, and it represents a real threat to the entire community: > suppose a man able to maintain himself and family by his trade, and at the > same time to be a Geneva drinker. This fellow first makes himself incapable > of working by being continually drunk; which runs him behindhand, so that he > either pawns, or neglects his work, for which reason nobody will employ him.
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Those protected women, moreover, generally act as protectors each to a few other Tanka women who live by sly prostitution. The latter, again, used to be preyed upon—till quite recently His Excellency Governor Hennessy stopped this fiendish practice—by informers paid with Government money, who would first debauch such women and then turn round against them charging them before the magistrate as keepers of unlicensed brothels, in which case a heavy fine would be inflicted, to pay which these women used to sell their own children, or sell themselves into bondage worse than slavery, to the keepers of the brothels licensed hy Government. Whenever a sly brothel was broken up these keepers would crowd the shroffs office of the police court or the visiting room of the Government Lock Hospital to drive their heartless bargains, which were invariably enforced with the weighty support of the Inspectors of brothels appointed by Government under the Contagious Diseases Ordinance. The more this Ordinance was enforced the more of this buying and selling of human flesh went on at the very doors of Government offices.
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The ordinary > official givers of the church-ale were two wardens who, after collecting > subscriptions in money or kind from every one of their fairly well-to-do > parishioners, provided a revel that not infrequently passed the wake in > costliness and diversity of amusements. The board, at which everyone > received a welcome who could pay for his entertainment, was loaded with good > cheer; and after the feasters had eaten and drunk to contentment, if not to > excess, they took part in sport on the turf of the churchyard, or on the > sward of the village green. The athletes of the parish distinguished > themselves in wrestling, boxing, quoit throwing; the children cheered the > mummers and the morris dancers; and round a maypole decorated with ribbons, > the lads and lasses plied their nimble feet to the music of the fifes, > bagpipes, drums and fiddles. When they had wearied themselves by exercise, > the revellers returned to the replenished board; and not seldom the feast, > designed to begin and end in a day, was protracted into a demoralising > debauch of a week's or even a month's duration.
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He was appealing to his fellow tradespeople and craftspeople with these gifts, a middle class which would have been only too pleased to see their values promoted by such a prominent figure.Bruntjen, 216-17. In a speech before the Council to advocate the renovation of a building for the purpose of displaying public art, Boydell made the striking claim that if the rich could be persuaded to patronise art, they would forgo their wicked ways: > one might be found amongst the many spendthrifts of the present age, instead > of ruining themselves by gaming, or laying snares to debauch young Females, > by their false promises and many other bad vices; would be rejoiced at such > an opportunity, of reclaiming themselves by withdrawing from the snares laid > for them by bad and designing Men and Women, who constantly lay wait to lead > astray the young and unwary that are possessed of large property, such might > here have the pleasure and satisfaction to make a real Paradise on earth, by > illuminating a place that would for ever shine and display their > generosity.Quoted in Appendix III, Bruntjen, 275.
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