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Thus for the Roman's destitution in regard to God Epicurism could find no remedy, and as a consequence it could provide no religious sanction for his conduct in life.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Epicurism was scarcely more prevalent during the decline of the Roman empire than it is at this day amongst some of the wealthy and noble youths of Britain.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 04 by Maria Edgeworth
Whatever may be said of the religious asceticism, the Epicurism required a corrective to redeem it from selfishness and guard it against self-deceit.
From Cowper by Goldwin Smith
I may note here that the power of Epicurism as a faith depended also largely on the directness, downrightness, and audacity of its system, working on minds weary of philosophers' disputations and political quarrels.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Stoicism indeed, as we shall see, held out a hand to the new movement, simply because Stoicism had a religious side which was wanting in Epicurism.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
In such cases knowledge produces but a passing impression; a sensation, gut no more; it is, in fact, the merest epicurism of intelligence—sensuous, but certainly not intellectual.
From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Major A.R. Calhoon
And yet with all this spice of epicurism and apparent selfishness, he was liberal, kind-hearted, and obliging.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
He had passed forty without gourmand tastes, and no man takes to epicurism after that.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
To abstain from enjoyment, is the philosophy of the sage, the epicurism of reason.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
After dinner--at which an unwonted and perverse epicurism detained me longer than usual--I lighted a cigar and paced the piazza, minutely attentive to the aspect and business of a very ordinary village.
From Elson Grammar School Literature v4 by William H. Elson
