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• I might proceed to give a few illustrations of this resultless restlessness, this dissipation of the youthful forces, to which I have alluded; but there is one phase of my experience here which goes further to prove its prevalence and baneful effects than a thousand instances derived from my knowledge of boys in school or in the closer contact of private tuition. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
• They have been admonished so often in print and private that their ignorance is not blissful, indeed it is baneful, that these ambitious ladies and gentlemen rush off to the booksellers, to libraries, and literally gorge themselves with the "ologies" and "isms" of the day. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques
• When looking at the nation's debt, the situation is even more baneful. Michael Pento: Rising Rates Reveal Debt Reality
• Separation, well considered, is only the baneful consequence-as We often have declared, especially in the Encyclical Quas Primas-of laicism, or rather the apostasy of society that today feigns to alienate itself from God and therefore from the Church.25 Separation of Church and State: Manifest Destiny or Manifest Heresy?
• But alas, frequent highs have the baneful effect of immunizing me from working harder on longer writing projects that I have taken on.
• While there are some things about the "postmodern" critique of culture with which I agree, one of its most baneful conseqeunces is the way in which it has swept up what was postmodern fiction into its smothering arms and blocked our view of what this fiction is really like. Postmodernism
• Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. Advice to Our Next President, From Our First President
• Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth, as indolence. A Renegade History of the United States
• It is only since the introduction of this trade that the sole recreation of the laborer is to be found in the pot-house or ginshop, and it is only since the introduction of this baneful trade that poverty, crime, and misery have made rapid and fearful strides throughout the community. Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles
• Many of the founders welcomed the economic crisis because it would force Americans to abandon the luxuries that Thomas Jefferson called a “more baneful evil than toryism was during the war.” A Renegade History of the United States