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I had always been exempt from temptation, and was therefore undepraved; but this view of things had a wonderful tendency to invigorate my virtuous resolutions.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

To suppose that it could, is the same as to suppose that depraved and undepraved reason is alike, and if so, there needs no further dispute about it.

From Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion by Allen, Ethan

The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances....

From A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia by Brawley, Benjamin Griffith

But Martial, somehow, kept his heart undepraved, and his taste in books was excellent. 

From Letters on Literature by Lang, Andrew

The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances.”

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various