Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degradeas much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust.
There are liberal and illiberal pleasures as well as liberal and illiberal arts: There are some pleasures that degrade a gentleman as much as some trades could do.
Our sole purpose now is to enter our protest against the inculcation of doctrines which we believe are calculated to degradeand debauch society by demolishing the dividing lines between virtue and vice.
This was regarded as such a degradation of the institution, as well as such an honor to the mean man, that never thereafter did the Athenians degrade a good man, or honor a bad one, by a resort to the measure.
They took the census, and thus assigned to every man his position in the different classes of the citizens; and they could, for immorality or any improper conduct, not only degrade a man from his rank, but deprive him of his vote.
To degrade the Christians, and place them at a disadvantage in controversy, he excluded them from the schools of logic and rhetoric.
I understand the lawyers that the Bill is very objectionable, and calculated to degrade the profession.
Where we oppress or degrade mankind with one hand, it is vain, like Octavius, to hold out in the other, the baits of marriage, or the whip to barrenness.
Are not wrinkles always in waiting to punish the one, and age, without honour, to chastise and degrade the other?
I feel your kind intention; but it does not come home to me; reasoning such as this may be equally applicable to any thing else, and degrade whatever is desirable into insignificance.
On the other hand, negligence in this particular will not only degrade the school under your care here, but the schools in this town and the cause of education in the vicinity will be unfavorably affected.
The first, and greatest, is the selection of books calculated to degrade the morals or intellect of the reader.
Nor was it probably their object to inflict bodily torments: these would call out sympathy and degrade the tribunal.
But the mass of the nation does not degrade itself by servitude; it often submits from weakness, from habit, or from ignorance, and sometimes from loyalty.
It tends to degradethe political morality of the people, and to substitute adroitness for patriotism.
The code of Manu, which is the source and supreme authority for this system, has done more to stereotype and degrade social and religious life in India than has any other code in all the history of other lands.
No system can degrade the womanhood of a race, nor, indeed, for that matter, its manhood, more than that which marries its girls in childhood and which consigns millions of them to wretched widowhood.
It would be a war for markets; for spheres of commercial influence; a sordid war that would degrade the people.
Concessions, compromises, any patched-up peace, will for a century degrade the name of America.
I might be murdered or hanged, but it is impossible to degrade me.
The lady remained the faithful friend, and therefore refused with indignation to degrade herself into a spy on her lover.
As I have told you before, in talking like that you degrade yourself and insult me.
Idleness and absence of purpose would soon degrade her in a sense she had never dreamt of.
And, now, let us not degradeourselves by hot words and impotent resentments.
Although the latter had tried to degrade him, and was incapable of any good motive in extending patronage to him, he felt that he had unintentionally surrounded him with influences which had saved him from the most disgraceful ruin.
I can do more than this, proud boyard; by a breath I can degrade thee and all thy tribe.
To degrade to a lower rank; or to shorten the allowance of water or provisions.
To degrade a man-of-war to a privateer by irregularity.
But men also humiliate us, degrade us, jeer at, ridicule the miseries that they and their society entail upon us.
Surely the rank heresy is to be laid at the door of those who degrade and enslave that which they assert to be most beautiful in human nature.
But we cannot degrade a prince to the disgrace of using such rude arms, or to the ignominy of such a combat.
Under pretext of the glory of their God, they every where prey upon ignorance, degrade the mind, discourage industry, and sow discord.
He cannot degrade himself beneath my notice;--not now.
After reducing my father, who had just given you a fortune, to despair and penury, you tried to degrade my sister.
At first Chupin’s extraordinary revelations and the thought that Martial, the heir of his name and dukedom, should so degrade himself as to enter into a conspiracy with vulgar peasants, had well-nigh overcome the Duke de Sairmeuse.
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