The British Tory will point to what he calls "the malign character of the Irish," as the prime cause of the debasement and wretchedness which exist among them.
The Empress, an organ of the Democratic party, was in its debasement on a par with The Herald and Times, though each had different styles, more or less refined, of doing the same thing.
The fact of governments lending their official aid to the demoralization of woman by the registration system, shows an utter debasement of law.
Also contributing to the inflation was an outracing of demand over supply, and a debasement of the coinage.
There was a recoinage due todebasement of the old coinage.
Further, the present instance of debasement is the only one on record in English currency history, and the testimonies regarding it are of extreme interest.
It is incorrect to look upon them as the tentative beginning of that debasement of the coinage which disgraced the later years of the reign of Henry VIII.
After the temporarydebasement during the Seven Years' War, the Graumann standard was re-established in 1764, but with two differences.
Apart from the international struggle for the precious metals, France was torn and ruined by the English invasions, and debasement after debasement of the coinage was resorted to as a means of raising money to continue the struggle.
Apart altogether from the arbitrary debasement of the coin, as, e.
Had this substitution been effected, the repudiation and debasement would have taken place; and a subsequent return to the gold standard would not in the slightest degree have redressed the wrong.
Those tribal peoples were constantly engaged in war, killing and shedding blood, burning and pillaging the homes of each other and living in conditions of the utmost debasement and immorality.
There is no lower degree nor greater debasement for man than this natural condition of animalism.
Instead of divine advancement we find sensual captivity and debasement of heavenly virtues of the soul.
The conception of annihilation is a factor in human degradation, a cause of human debasement and lowliness, a source of human fear and abjection.
It was one of the consequences of the debasement of language, that the German and Polish Jews had lost all sense of form, taste for artistic beauty, and aesthetic feeling.
To his account mainly must be laid the unfathomable degradation and debasement of the papacy during the 10th century.
They also presented a united front against the corruptions of the church, against hierarchical pretensions, the greed and moral debasement of the papacy, as well as against the moral and intellectual degradation of the clergy and the monks.
Bonaparte once said: "If I had the choice, either of doing a noble action myself, or of inducing my adversary to do a mean one, I would not hesitate to prefer the debasement of my enemy.
As to Austria, in spite of the fatal debasement into which she had sunk, I had sufficient confidence in her monarch to believe that he would not deliver me up; but I knew also that he could not defend me.
What debasement in the slave does the same gentleman's remedy for theft indicate?
This event was the great debasement of the silver coin, by clipping and wearing.
The Turkish harem, the Mormon polygamy, or that worse than either state, which consigns an immense number of our sex to debasement utter and desperate.
You may talk as much as you please of the debasement of science, of the falling off in study.
These centuries have indeed been centuries of enslavement, but certainly not of debasement nor any form of retrogression.
But since it was at best only "nearly" and not quite, it follows that the mixture of Hamite and Negro did, after all, work a debasement of the former.
Through the nobility and greatness of its women in an earlier period, it had risen to the height of power; and through the debasement and weakness of its women, it finally fell.
Debasement of character is the certain follower of such pursuits.
In Denmark the debasement of the currency had been more rapid than in almost any other land, and the "klippings" of Christiern II.
One favorite device, to which allusion has been already made, consisted in a debasement of the currency.
In the present debasement and desecration of Italian cities there is not even such motive and excuse as that which was urged by archaeologists for the ruin of these plants.
There is everything lost, nothing whatever gained, in the debasement of classic and artistic cities to the level of Buluwayo or Klondyke.
