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That in these dark retreats, secluded from censure, and from the knowledge of the world, they might riot in licentiousness.
SKETCHES OF THE FAIR SEX, IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLDANONYMOUS
Hobbes's politics are fitted only to promote tyranny, and his ethics to encourage licentiousness.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.I., PART E.DAVID HUME
In this crude manner they turn the liberty of the spirit into wantonness and licentiousness.
COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANSMARTIN LUTHER
In our days the increase of licentiousness is but the result of having rejected the Truth of God.
THE PROPHET EZEKIELARNO C. GAEBELEIN
The first is the terribly prevalent and everywhere tolerated licentiousness of men.
THE COLLEGE, THE MARKET, AND THE COURTCAROLINE H. DALL
The licentiousness of Thophile Gautier is elevated by the power of his transcendent genius to the plane of true art.
BELFORD'S MAGAZINE, VOL. II, NO. 3, FEBRUARY 1889VARIOUS
In America social licentiousness is not inherent as a national characteristic, nor inherited from a profligate ancestry.
BELFORD'S MAGAZINE, VOL. II, NO. 3, FEBRUARY 1889VARIOUS
With all his passions, he held licentiousness in disdain; with all his ambition for the power of wealth, he despised its luxury.
NIGHT AND MORNING, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
He soon converted ours into a place of filthy debauch and scandalous licentiousness, the haunt of knaves and debauchees.
THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, COMPLETEJEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Foreigners, resorting to it from all parts, had introduced a degree of licentiousness which became proverbial.
HISTORY OF JULIUS CAESAR VOL. 1 OF 2NAPOLEON III, EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, 1808-1873.

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