sensualist

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A version of this review appears in print on January 24, 2014, on page C30 of the with the headline: A Sensualist Finds Religion .

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2014

The first two stand out in tremendous contrast as contemporaries—the realist of the Soul, and the realist of the Flesh, the Saint and the Sinner, the Ascetic and the Sensualist.

From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

The Purist, therefore, does not mend nature, but 190 receives from nature and from God that which is good for him; while the Sensualist fills himself “with the husks that the swine did eat.”

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John

There will, however, be no cause to apprehend the personal, social, moral or spiritual demoralization which the "Sensualist" doctrines of the last century were accused of encouraging.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

The Sensualist and the Sceptic may, indeed, deride the conduct of a man, who sacrificed all the common pleasures of life, and sought for no recompence but in the favour of Heaven.

From The Eulogies of Howard by Hayley, William