We recommend, therefore, as the only practicable means of preventing a wasteful and demoralising duplication of services, the complete abolition, not only of the Poorhouse, but also of the Poor Law itself.
The demoralising association of the outdoor pauper children with the pay-station was specially denounced by another inspector.
Astronomical science I assured them did not recognise any such eclipses as those produced by swallowing the planets, and however satisfactory such a course might be to them, it was very demoralising to my orrery.
To this must be added the demoralising influence of American whalers, who have given the settled Koraks rum and cursed them with horrible diseases, which are only aggravated by their diet and mode of life.
From nearly all these demoralising influences the Wandering Koraks are removed by the very nature of their life.
When with them one becomes perfectly familiar with nudity and there is no demoralising effect.
But I will even go further: religions have very frequently a decidedly demoralising influence.
The demoralising influence of religion is less problematical than its moral influence.
That the company afterwards did well was specially creditable in view of this demoralising prelude.
Caves, cellars, and deep dug-outs had a demoralising influence upon their occupants.
Not asdemoralising as the absinthe habit, but more insidious.
There are many other contests which tax the intellect in a similar manner, but possibly the foregoing will be sufficient to provide a fairly demoralising afternoon.
The works thus puffed off are contemptible as regards medical information, demoralising in their very nature, and delusive in all their promises.
Of all the demoralising species of quackery practised now-a-days, certain medical works are decidedly the worst.
There's no stepping down from pedestals in opening the heart to love and joy--the demoralising thing is to close it, out of a mistaken sense of duty.
I said if I ceased to grumble it would have a demoralising effect on my character.
Literary people, for example, must be very unobservant if they do not notice how demoralising is the influence of public applause, and the constant inducement to court notoriety.
A long line of emperors not only fed the mob of the capital, but squandered the resources of the State in providing gross and demoralising amusements for them.
The example of Nero's debauchery, and the seductive charm which he undoubtedly possessed, were probably as enfeebling and demoralising as the Terror.
We may add, then, that a competition need not be demoralising when the competitors have lofty aims and use only honourable means.
Most States make some provision of the kind, and this State-provision is often excellent in efficiency but frequently quite demoralising in the restrictions with which it is hedged.
Add to these millions the other millions spent in endowing the worst and least capable in prisons, asylums and in often demoralising charities.
But the possession of unlimited power, which corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding of monarchs, exercised its demoralising influence on the illustrious democracy of Athens.
The slow, silent, indirect action of public opinion bears the Holy See along, without any demoralising conflict or dishonourable capitulation.
The workman of the new generation is full of distrust the most demoralising of social influences.
Each year more little ones are brought in from the fields and hills to live in the degrading and demoralising atmosphere of the mill towns.
Hurried and driven men glorify "push" and impatience, and despise finish and fine discriminations as weak and demoralising things.
I hope to show later that State assistance properly applied is not necessarily demoralising but very much the reverse.
They, too, had to break loose from the traditions of an Irish party, for they felt that the exclusively political opposition to Home Rule was not less demoralising than the exclusively political pursuit of Home Rule.
That tanks draw away much fire from the infantry, and have as great an encouraging effect on our own troops as they have a demoralising one on the enemy’s.
He reproaches himself with being 'actively engaged in carrying on a process of, lowering the religious tone of the state, letting it down, demoralising it, and assisting in its transition into one which is mechanical.
We joined in passing the measure; we declared a belief that slavery was an evil and demoralising state, and a desire to be relieved from it; we accepted a price in composition for the loss which was expected to accrue.
Even a slight excess of anger, impatience, and the spirit of command, would be less demoralising to the impressionable character than the constant sight of a man artificially impassive.
The adoption of this attitude not only saves actual runs, but it has the further advantage of preventing batsmen from attempting those short runs which so often have the effect of demoralising a weak fielding side.
The hostile demonstration from the pavilion was one of the most demoralising ever heard on a cricket ground.
I do not think that batsmen jump out enough to slow bowling, for there is nothing so demoralising to a bowler as a batsman who comes out of his ground and hits when the ball is at all overpitched.
Captain Trevor, the popular “Dux,” used to tell a cheery story about the demoralisingeffect of first-class cricket.
To return to the northern agricultural region, the rural population have a peculiar type, which is to be accounted for by the fact that they never experienced to its full extent the demoralising influence of serfage.
The rich peasants, for example, have gained their fortune and influence by demoralising and exploiting their weaker brethren, by committing all manner of illegalities, and by bribing the local authorities.
It greatly increased the difficulty of manning the navy, and the occasional large profits had a demoralising influence on detached cruiser commanders.
There is something disgusting and demoralising in all this.
Corporal punishment is revolting, disgusting, and demoralising to the boy; and is degrading to the schoolmaster as a man and as a Christian, If schoolmasters must flog, let them flog their own sons.
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