running counter to all the rules of virtue

Then had I come, preventing Sheba's Queen, / To ſee the comelieſt of the Sons of Men; […]

A glance at the articles of the statute of Clarendon will show that they contained as direct a contradiction to the decretalism of the canon law as could be expressed in words.

The king sacked d'Argenson for maladroitness, but seemed to share some of his views ….