Instances of decrepitude and deformity, are rarely known to exist among them: this is probably owing to the manner in which they are tended and nursed in infancy.
The most singular effect of their gayety was an impulse to mock the infirmity and decrepitude of which they had so lately been the victims.
But in the time of Christ, and in the last decrepitude of ethnic morality, the selfishness of human intercourse was much greater than the present age can easily understand.
He thought that no adventitious or foreign pain was requisite; that decrepitudeitself was an epitome of whatever is dreadful; and nothing could be added to the curse of age, but that it should be extended beyond its natural limits.
He did very wisely, and like himself, not to corrupt the tenor of an incorrupt life, and so sacred an image of the human form, to spin out his decrepitude another year, and to betray the immortal memory of that glorious end.
He who commits his decrepitude to the press plays the fool if he think to squeeze anything out thence that does not relish of dreaming, dotage, and drivelling; the mind grows costive and thick in growing old.
Nearly the same thing had happened in the decrepitude of paganism.
There neither decrepitude nor old age, nor sickness, sorrow, pain, nor death; but the bloom of eternal youth and beauty may rest on thy brow forever.
And in order not to make you too proud I must tell you that they are models, each in his way, and in a very rich world, while you are only the first in the decrepitude of your art.
He, the philosopher of decadence and romanticism, could have said to Wagner as Baudelaire to Manet: "You are only the first in the decrepitude of your art.
Sicily was another exception from the general decrepitude and ruin of the Roman empire in the latter reigns of the Caesars.
The state of Lybia was equally characteristic of the highest and most general prosperity, especially in relation to agricultural industry, at the time when Italy and Greece were thus languishing in the last stage of decrepitude and decay.
But the respirator, the hollow cough and decrepitude of the morning--where were they?
Whether this reenforcement is a complete preventive of decrepitude in species, or only a palliative, is more than we can determine.
The King said,--By what conduct, O holy one may one transcend decrepitude and death?
Like a snake devouring air, Death wanders in this world made up of days and nights in the form of Decrepitude and devours all creatures.
Decrepitude and Death, like a pair of wolves, devour all creatures, strong or weak, short or tall.
Always assailed by sorrow and decrepitude and death, a living creature is being cooked in this world (in the cauldron of Time).
I shall attain to that situation in which thy Soul will nave tranquillity, and when I shall be able to dwell for eternity without being subject to decrepitude or change.
Bhishma continued, 'The Rishis did not make merit depend upon years or decrepitude or wealth or friends.
They are also overwhelmed by numerous mental griefs caused by loss of wealth and separation from friends, as also by griefs caused by decrepitude and death.
Decrepitude and death cannot assail that Brahmana who has got beyond the sphere of acts, who has transcended the destruction of the Gunas themselves, and who is no longer attached to worldly objects.
As soon as a creature is born, Decrepitude and Death come and possess him for his destruction.
Vedas), or by knowledge of the Srutis, or the application of medicines, can one succeed in avoidingdecrepitude and death?
Mahat, consciousness, and the five tanmatras of the five elemental entities), roves in all regions of bliss, freed fromdecrepitude and death.
Even if men drink many astringents and diverse kinds of medicated ghee, they are seen to be broken by decrepitude like trees by strong elephants.
The end declared by Bhishma in the previous section is the success of yoga, or freedom from decrepitude and death, or death at will, or absorption into Brahma, or independent, existence in a beatific condition.
Neither medicines, nor incantations, can rescue the man assailed by decrepitude or overtaken by death.
The body was lost in the darkness, and her head alone could be seen; she looked like a mask of Decrepitude lit up by a flash darting through the night.
As far as it is possible to recognize the age of an Indian, in whose face traces of decrepitude are nearly always invisible, these two men must have reached middle age, that is, from forty to forty-five years.
It was the weakness and unsightly decrepitude of the ecclesiastics which opened the way for the thinkers.
The impatience and charlatanry of emotional or pseudo-scientific admirers of a personal system blind them to the permanent truth, of which the succession of the decrepitude of Lewis XV.
Even in old age and decrepitude she opened her rooms to her friends every evening in the year, and never, even in the depths of September, found her court deserted.
Love for what is called deception in painting, marks either the infancy or decrepitude of a nation's taste.
Decrepitude is not there, nor Fire which is omnipresent in the universe.
Decrepitude or disease or loss of complexion will never be thine!
The royal sage Dhundhumara was overwhelmed with decrepitude even while engaged in performing his sacrifices, and foregoing all the merits thereof, he fell asleep at Girivraja.
The illustrious Deity said, 'Be thou free from every misery and pain, and be thou above decrepitude and death.
It is a condition that is divested of sorrow and happiness; that is auspicious and freed from decrepitude and death and that knows no change.
Enduring birth in the uterus, decrepitude and afflictions of diverse kinds, in this ocean of the world, living creatures may be seen to be continually going forward and coming back.
Without being subject to decrepitude or death, thou shalt become an author celebrated through all the worlds!
Where, indeed, is their decrepitude or dissolution?
Related to Vasudeva and having the sons of king Drupada as their brothers-in-law, who that is subject to decrepitude and death would undertake to cope with them in battle?
Women have sometimes caused dropsy and leprosy, decrepitude and impotence and idiocy and blindness and deafness in men.
They only that are possessed of holiness succeed, by knowledge and deeds, to conquer disease, decrepitude and death, and acquire a high status.
At their loss or disappearance occasioned by decrepitude or death, ariseth what is called distress.
An in their sixteenth year, men are overtaken with decrepitude and decay and the period of life itself is soon outrun.
Yet that there have been some who have reached the decrepitude of age without experiencing even the slightest sickness, and who have had uninterrupted enjoyment of life, I know both from report and from my own observation.
The old admiral fumed with vexation that his decrepitude forbade him to mingle in the fray.
In justice to Yudushka it must be admitted that his mother's decrepitude gave him some alarm.
In this complete helplessness and the absence of all comfort and care, decrepitude began slowly to set in.
