There is very little doubt that the primitive fungi have been derived by degradation from the lower algae.
Well, this, I take it, is the absolute degradation of education.
I have until now concealed it from you, but the remembrance of my former degradation throws me into despair--it kills me.
I fallen into the state of criminal degradation in which I live!
I have been struck with the profound degradation into which I had fallen.
Thus, because there are beings a thousand times more degraded than I am, my degradation is to be excused in my eyes!
These circumstances, together with his naturally gentle habits, made him regard such a degradation rather favourably than otherwise.
There was at once a sort of low gratification in receiving this luscious incense from an attractive and still young worshipper; and an irritating sense of degradation in the very experience of the pleasure.
Also He says: “The greatest of degradation is to leave the Shadow of God and enter under the shadow of Satan.
They were in an extreme state of degradationand slavery under the tyranny and oppression of the Egyptians.
This was the only thing wanting to the degradation and disgrace of the Germanic body.
He was the college companion and bosom friend of Robert Emmet, who gave his beautiful life on the gibbet in protest against the degradation of his country; but Moore took only a fitful part in the stormy political agitation of the time.
It has been to men of my profession, perhaps, that the degradation has been due, more than to those who represent their plays.
The last vestiges of Saracenic culture had vanished in a barbarous luxury of the few and an equally barbarous degradation of the multitude.
As a result of all these hard conditions various phenomena of social degradation such as alcoholism, vice, and crime, are becoming increasingly common.
We have shown above how the subordination of the gods to Brahman and the great saints, the degradation of the ancient deities, must have aroused especially in the people the need of living divine powers.
They had been more deeply influenced by the degradation of the old gods, introduced by the Brahmans in consequence of their religious system (p.
Too, they were often a source of moral corruption, the degradation of the women-servants being a continued source of evil.
The widow was occasionally sold as a concubine by her father-in-law, but this was rare, as it was considered a great degradation and especially as she would be separated from her children.
Tacitus and Juvenal regarded as an exposure of the politicaldegradation and moral corruption of prominent individuals and classes, do much to modify the pervadingly tragic and sombre character of their representation.
For instance, when he ridicules a praetor urbanus for calling himself pretor, we see already the intrusion of the rustic degradation of ae into e, which afterwards became universal.
The absent proprietor looks only to revenue, and cares nothing for the disorder and degradation of a country which he never means to visit.
Many would perhaps have said that the degradation would have mastered all other thoughts, and that the life to which I was reduced would have tended to break down all self-respect and esteem.
Let us remember that the contract was never a fair one, and that a whole life's degradation is a heavy sum to pay for a dinner with his Grace, or a cup of tea with her Highness.
He didn’t for one moment alter his opinion of the degradation to which the man had subjected the nobilities of his calling, his meanness and his avarice.
For a week she was subjected to unspeakable treatment and made to feel that her degradation was complete and final.
In these confessions we find included nearly all the particulars of the popular belief concerning witchcraft, and see the gradual degradation of the once superb Lucifer to the vulgar scarecrow with horns and tail.
Even, however, in this degradation the politeness of these people struck our Frenchmen forcibly.
The creative process may have been applicable to the highest as well as to the lowest forms, and subsequent deviations must have included degradation as well as elevation.
Groups of species, as genera and orders, do not usually begin with their highest or lowest forms, but with intermediate and generalized types, and they show a capacity for both elevation and degradation in their subsequent history.
This is a psychological peculiarity which, as much as any other, marks his separation from the lower animals, and which in his utmost degradation he never wholly loses.
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