Here at least men are not flung out of employment to degenerate because there is no immediate work for them to do.
I am as old as was Pyrrhus when alone he o’erthrew Troy and proved himself no degenerate from his father Achilles.
Degenerate Roman, by whose advice didst thou exchange the comb for the sword, thine ancestral calling for the field of battle?
The public is astonished or shocked when some one goes against its preconceived notions, against the prejudices of a badly interpreted or degenerate tradition.
In thesedegenerate days, we have accorded the term to only one person, "the divine Fanny Ellsler!
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerateinto a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty.
The little nephew of Hallmyres, annoyed by the burgher-bairns, struck one of them a blow in the face, which the spruce scion of the Lithgow tailor returned with far more gallantry than might have been expected from one of his degenerate caste.
She was so stirred by this "undignified exhibition" that she sat down before she had been in town forty-eight hours and dashed off to her paper just what she thought about "degenerate Britain.
No one had so direct and personal a reason for taking the bull by the horns, for if the British campaign were to degenerate from futility into fiasco, the odium would necessarily fall upon its field chieftain.
The adult workman becomes an apprentice, a child, again: this result was foreseen from the phase of the division of labor, during which we saw the quality of the workman degenerate in the ratio in which industry was perfected.
The majority of his young acquaintances, who had been launched from homes like his own, were known only as sons of their fathers, and degenerate sons at that.
As people are born blind or scrofulous, so I suppose others can be born devoid of heart or conscience, inheriting from a degenerate ancestry sundry mean and vile propensities in their places.
I have already referred in an earlier chapter to the question of degenerate art defined in a circular to the New York Herald as "the deification of ugliness.
This modernistic degenerate cult is simply the Bolshevist philosophy applied in art.
The frescos of Luca Giordano show the attempt of a later and degenerate age to enliven with form and color the sombre dignity of this faultless pile.
You will often meet, in persons of wealth and distinction, an easydegenerate accent in Spanish, strangely at variance with their elegance and culture.
Exclusively agricultural as the South is in her industrial pursuits, she is barely able to support her sparse and degenerate population.
The only way that can be done is by a nation-wide abandonment of the artificial and degenerate life of the congested cities.
What a contrast to these degenerate days in which the Lord Chancellor, the bishop, and one peer, hunted up for the purpose, form a reluctant congregation!
It must be of a kindred temper with justice, or it would degenerate into mere weakness or folly.
But it is perfectly clear that this quality in the man of affairs, which is akin to the artistic temperament, may very easily degenerateinto mere pliability.
There is always danger that efforts of this class may degenerate into the merely tricky and meretricious; and already a suspicion arises that the artist's eccentricity is somewhat too premeditated and self-conscious.
Nay, Leonora, never flush and tremble, I have no wish to buy my own advancement by selling you to some degenerate prince.
In these structures he displayed great fertility of invention and a profound familiarity with the classic orders, but the degenerate taste of the Baroque period already begins to show itself in his work.
In these seignorial residences a degenerate form of the Gothic, known as the Tudor style, was employed during the reigns of Henry VII.
A wreath of rushes had been twisted about the degenerate forehead, a strip of matting had been bound with a tow-cord about his middle; in his hand was a stalk of papyrus with the head broken and hanging down.
They hae been a wicked and degenerate race, and aye the langer the waur, till they hae reached the utmost bounds o' earthly wickedness; and it's time the deil were looking after his ain.
They were twa o' thae cauldrife moral harangues, that tend to uplift poor wrecked, degenerate human nature, and rin down divine grace.
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