Theological notions appear to have been made to debase him, to contract his mind, to plunge him into despondence.
Lest my best efforts, failing, should debase The sacred theme; for with no common wing The Muse attempts to soar.
Then great things would be done and art would advance with giant strides, not constrained to debase itself by flattering public vulgarity and the ignorance of the rich.
He was going to break with his impresario, he would no longer debase himself with that false painting, even if he had to beg for his living.
To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
Debase has reference to the bringing down of a thing in purity, or making it base.
Consider what baseness is in it, for one that hath such a noble design, as fellowship with the Highest, to debase his soul so far and so low, as to serve sinful and fleshly lusts.
Shall such a man as I, who am born again to such a hope, and called to such a high dignity, shall I, who aim and aspire so high as fellowship with God, debase and degrade myself with the vilest servitude?
If she remain a slave, she will debase you and your sons; and your country will come under the rule of tyranny.
Now turn to the womanhood picture; she, whom you think will debase and lower the morals of the elections.
It will thus be seen that there were many general causes at work which tended todebase the Church during the period which comes under our consideration.
It is to be feared that politics at this period did more to debase the clergy than the clergy did to elevate politics.
Besides poverty and want, there are other reasons that debase the minds of men who live under Slavery, though I look on this as the principal.
The aims and influences of commercial and political life can debase and destroy the noblest impulses.
A few generations suffice to restore a variety to the primitive stock without retaining any of the organic elements which would debase it.
He solemnly promised never again to debasethe coin, and he endeavoured to make an equitable division of the taxes.
The king assumed the exclusive right to debase the value of the coinage, which caused him to be commonly called the base coiner, and no sovereign ever coined a greater quantity of base money.
Faire Cousin, You debase your Princely Knee, To make the base Earth prowd with kissing it.
We doe debase our selfe (Cousin) doe we not, To looke so poorely, and to speake so faire?
Methought in honour I could not condescend You should debase yourself so low.
Were you my bride, Violante, I should but debase your bright nature by my own curse of distrust.
Schiller calls on the gods to take him to their heaven with them; and you would debase the gods to a ginpalace.
If to me he refuse to sacrifice the sin that would debase him, that sin be the barrier between us evermore; and may my life, devoted to Thy service, atone for the hour in which he belied the nature he received from Thee!
Swedish would have supported his case far better: the Swedes debasetheir vowels and slide over their consonants even more markedly than the English.
Not only do the present lords of the soil debase them in speaking them; in many cases they are formally displaced by native names of the utmost harshness and banality.
Certainly Love did not debase itself when it joined these two, for it seems to them, when they embrace and kiss each other, that all the world must be better for their joy and happiness.
The emperor was pleased with this request, and gladly gave them his daughter; for in doing so, he does not debase himself, nor diminish his honour in any way.
That unfortunate is but one of the herd, one of the victims to pleasures which debase by their progress and ruin by their end.
Faults of hygiene debase the type, although the type is determined by heredity which in the individual is beyond our control.
Wrong and suffering either lift a man to greatness, or debase him to the very brute!
At this I saw the white hand clench itself, but her voice was tender as ever when she answered: "Sorrow and suffering may lift a man to greatness if he be strong of soul or debase him to the brute if he be weak.
