harlotry

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Though Richard’s reasons for hating her were largely political, her punishments were tied to her harlotry.

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To them harlotry is in all its blasting, withering phases, a familiar story before they have reached the age of ten years.

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Originally the first born of men were also given them, but while, with higher culture, that sacrifice was abolished, the sacred harlotry, over which Ishtar presided, remained.

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For, while its comfort and succor cost the houseless wanderer nothing, it lived and grew, and lives and grows still, upon the licensed vices of the people,—drinking, harlotry, and gambling.

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Licentiousness, cruelty, and vice—"Positivism," or the substitution of the harlotry of the passions for the calm and elevating influences of reason and religion.

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