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Meanings of public morals in English

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Usage of public morals in English
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These things have their effect upon the general tone of public morals.
The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. H...
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A firm guardian of public morals, his private life was above reproach.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages
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The cultivation of the art has a most favourable influence upon public morals.
Thrift
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All this must have produced a debasing effect upon public morals.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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For my bird is pious; a stern conservator is he of the public morals.
Memories and Anecdotes
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Among the Reports relating to public morals may be noted:
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 3...
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Its tendency to pervert public taste, and corrupt public morals.
A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery
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James Russell Lowell, for example, thought he saw a steady decline in public morals.
History of the United States
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And then he cries out: An outrage to public morals!
The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert
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We have withheld from public health and public morals the protection which was their due.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
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At its first appearance, Madame Bovary was prosecuted, though unsuccessfully, as offensive to public morals.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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And this is called an outrage against public morals!
The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert
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The first: Are any parts of this play objectionable from the point of view of public morals.
The new yorker
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But while he instructed the people in political duties, he paid far more attention to public morals.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Refor...
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He has no public morals; he has no private ones, where his party's prosperity is at stake.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
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Internally, as Michelangelo pointed out, the church would have been dark, inconvenient, and dangerous to public morals.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Public morals through the time
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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