If a distant mind can thus demoralise the central terminus of one brain, it may do as much for two or more brains, or they may demoralise each other.
This is true, and may be fairly applied to the American democracy: as long as you will not allow the good and enlightened to rule, you will be governed by those who will flatter and cheat you, and demoralise society.
Mankind demoralise each other by collision; and the larger the numbers crowded together, the greater will be the demoralisation, and this rule will hold good, whether in England or the United States, the Old World or the New.
For more than a week the Anglo-Egyptian force remained halted at Ras-el-Hudi, waiting for privation to demoralise Mahmud's army or to exasperate him into making an attack.
As soon as the process of attrition was sufficiently far advanced to demoralise the Dervish host, without completely dissolving them, the Sirdar and his army moved.
Their military success and prestige in fact tended to demoralise the Swiss as the success of Hellas against Persia tended to demoralise Athens, making them, in the words of Aristotle, unfitted to rest.
He acknowledged the bravery of the British soldiers, but imagined that hardships and deprivations would so demoralise them that they would be unable to hold out against an enemy superior in numbers.
Both their tenacity and their dash were astounding, for the volleys of the enemy were accurate and persistent, and sufficiently deadly to demoralise the most veteran troops in the world.
This seemed to demoralise every one, and they all commenced to retire.
On the contrary, on balance, it will, I believe, demoralise him less.
The danger that adequate relief willdemoralise the recipient has, I agree, been grossly exaggerated in the past.
But, given that a man is unemployed, it will not demoralise him more that he should receive adequate relief rather than inadequate relief or no relief at all.
This official life seems sorely to demoralise some homely and decent people.
A sure though evil instinct has guided them in choosing rather to demoralise our finance, than to pay their way by imposing taxes, but I do not see how they are long to escape this difficulty.
He came down here and tried todemoralise the labour market.
There's one in jail now, alive, who has shot and disfigured and nearly killed two good white men, and such an example of social equality as burying one in a white graveyard will demoralise them still further.
Many of these societies have done much good, particularly the religious societies; but many others, from being pushed too far, have done great mischief, and have very much assisted to demoralise the community.
Such was the line which France adopted frequently in her wars with us, sometimes legitimately, but sometimes to such an excess as seriously to demoralise her fleet.
Thus the hope of reward tends to demoralise the clever child by making an appeal to basely selfish motives.
It is difficult to say which of the two motives is the more likely to demoralise the child.
Of the tendency of cruelty to demoralise its victims I have already spoken.
Enough circumstances in which there must be a subjected race alongside of our English proprietors, without putting the Government stamp on a new scheme which will help to demoralise us, and weaken our moral sense as a nation?
The attempt here," said Boffin severely, "is to demoralise the rulers of the people.
Set out on foot in search of a gasthaus of moderate pretensions, where no English have been to demoralise the landlord and raise the prices.
Why demoralise them, why instil the love of money into their innocent minds?
But the range was long and the effects of the fire insignificant; it did not shake or demoralise the British infantry, who slowly and steadily, as if on parade, marched back the three miles to Modder River camp, defeated but not disgraced.
Some fifty Boers were killed or wounded in this charge, and the general effect upon the enemy was thoroughly to demoralise them.
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