"Detrimental" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dogmatical teaching, no inculcation of pious practices, no mention of the great and sublime mysteries of Catholicity can be admitted in them, lest some things should be said offensive to any sect that sends children to the school. This suppression of Catholic truth is most detrimental to our poor Catholic children, many of whom never read any books except those which they use in school, and learn nothing except what they meet with in those books, or hear from their master. Is not this a serious loss? Is it not a great evil ...
— Public School Education • Michael Mueller
... done is (a) to get the interval abbreviated; and (b) to keep the players on the field. It is the length of it and the empty pitch that are so depressing to the spectator, and it is the return to the pavilion that is so detrimental to the rhythm of the game. Neither of the batsmen ever wants the interruption, and I have often noticed a reluctance in certain members of the fielding side. As for the watchers, they never fail ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 15, 1920 • Various
... P. P. The detrimental effect of walnut to Rhododendrons and other ornamentals. Nursery Disease ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 • Various
... Austrian politics," said the king, smiling. "They hold to a solemn contract, which was detrimental to them, only so long as necessity compels it; so soon as an opportunity offers to their advantage, they prove faithless. They do not care to be considered honorable, they only desire to be feared, and above all, they will bear no equals and no rivals in Germany. Maria Theresa ...
— Berlin and Sans-Souci • Louise Muhlbach
... taken by proxy, and the absence of several other powers usually given to trading companies for the better regulation of their internal affairs, has been found in practice to be very inconvenient and detrimental to the interests ...
— Charter and supplemental charter of the Hudson's Bay Company • Hudson's Bay Company
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