For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

在何处有嫉妒纷争，就在何处有扰乱和各样的坏事。

During their long tenure of office, the Republicans could not escape the inevitable consequences of power;that is, evil practices and corrupt conduct on the part of some who found shelter within the party.

——共和党人在其长期任职期间，无法逃避权力的必然后果；即某些在党内寻求庇护的人的恶行和腐败行为。

But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods and serving and worshiping them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

及至士师死后，他们就转去行恶，比他们列祖更甚，去侍奉叩拜别神，总不断绝顽梗的恶行。

It is a pious consolation to me that, through my interference, a sufficient space was allowed them for repentance of the evil and corrupt practices into which, as a matter of course, every Custom-House officer must be supposed to fall.

对我来说，这是一个虔诚的安慰， 通过我的干预，他们有足够的空间来忏悔邪恶和腐败的做法，当然，每个海关官员都必须堕落。