And equally so was the only fee demanded by Staff Surgeon William Hamilton in 1715 for curing the decadent Emperor Farokhshir of a tumour in the back which had resisted the efforts of all the court physicians.
Taking this, and a like anger from every decadent court in India, the absolute brutality of the Mutiny ceases to be inexplicable.
She was a mere child and still under the tutelage of her despotic father when he--Taurus Antinor--tired of the enervating influences of decadent Rome, had obtained leave from the Emperor Tiberius to go to Syria as its governor.
Thus an unbroken chain of noble-minded matrons may be traced through the darkest days of Rome's decadent morality.
Flying in the face of a decadent institution does not destroy it.
Mrs. Barr belonged to a decadent branch of an old Mayflower stock connected with the Bradleys, the Saltonstalls, and other well-known New England names.
Apparently the confidence of progress has been as great in times that now seem to us decadent as in times that we think of as truly progressive.
This is not vital art, it is decadent and corrupt.
Even in the beginning, or before the beginning, while painting is a decadent reminiscence of the past rather than a prophecy of the new birth, there are decorative splendors in the Byzantine mosaics hardly to be recaptured.
It is, I am inclined to think, a decadent and diseased purity which has inaugurated this notion that the sacred object must be hidden.
Unconsciously he sought for the decadent world some such ordeal as he himself had passed through.
Burne-Jones and Rossetti found sympathy because their repining lyricism, their psychopathic subtlety, their wonderful mixture of archaic simplicity and decadent hautgout, stand in direct touch with the present.
The latter is regarded as an honorable debt and is at best the direct product of a decadent ideal, while motherhood constitutes the very germ of the only altruistic idealism for all the future.
Iron dials were used later, in the decadent period, and both numerals and floral designs were painted on the enamelled surface in lieu of engraved and ornamental metal-work, and often a landscape or figure subject occupied the lunette.
England to secure the friendship of the decadent power which still loomed so large and asserted its high claims so haughtily.
It is with the nation one of the effects of the instinct of self-preservation, and for a youthful nation to absorb the vices of an old decadent one would be self-destruction.
If that sounded too decadent or illusion inspiring, a sleeker model existed minus the extras--in other words the green wading pool size pizza unruffled by further wizardry.
It is doubtful if, until Wamba's time, the Goths had the art of profiting by such heritage as the decadent vanquished had left them.
I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure.
At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity.
It was, however, less a faithful copy than a caricature of the Old Kingdom which the Decadent period provided.
The cult of the oracle flourished greatly during the decadent period, and afforded, as we may conjecture, considerable scope for priestly ingenuity.
But it was a decadent totemism, in which the more primitive sentiment was focused on particular animals considered as divine, totems which had become full-fledged divinities.
The insight he then gained into the working of Spanish despotism made him a relentless enemy of that already decadent monarchy.
He had to make his Company, that forlorn hope of Catholicism, the exponent of a decadent and rotten faith.
Elaboration and banal designs, too much splendour of gold and silver and ivory inlaid with gold, resulted in a decadent art which reflected a decadent race and Rome fell!
I do not say that there may not be a decadent side in Wagner, revealing super-sensitiveness or even hysteria and other modern nervous affections.
It is to be feared that this art and thought may be absorbed by the decadent subtleties or pedantic scholasticism which is apt to accompany all coteries--in short, that its music will be salon-music rather than chamber-music.
The later examples, as far as they exist, are decadent and are generally lifeless copies of the earlier MSS.
I fancy that a decadent people, who will neither work nor spin, but choose to rest and lie at ease, give the potter Destiny no chance.
And so to-day Morocco drowses in an atmosphere of laissez faire, a decadent nation, a collection of lawless tribes, who have changed little for the last two thousand years, living still much after the manner of Old Testament days.
