Finally, the practice of rhetoric and eristic, which presently became prominent in sophistical teaching, had, or at any rate seemed to have, a mischievous effect upon conduct; and the charge of seeking, whether in exposition or in debate, not truth but victory - which charge was impressively urged against the sophists by Plato - grew into an accusation of holding and teaching immoral and unsocial doctrines, and in our own day has been the subject of eager controversy.
He found English ways dull and precise and the religious observances exacting; and his mother had - not for the last time - to talk seriously with him on his unsocial and wilful character.
These may include bonus pay, shift allowances, unsocial hours payments or weekend payments.
The position offers an excellent salary, plus commission, plus unsocial hours allowance and use of a Company vehicle.
For all the talk of a new 24-hour society, unsocial hour working is not new.