His sense of justice, as well as the custom of the time, led him to divide his states among his sons, which not only insured enmity between them, but enfeebled the whole of Christendom.
After an absence of six years, the enfeebled and exhausted king sat once more in the chair of judgment, and gained all hearts by his generosity and truth.
They had been wasted and greatly enfeebled by the wars carried on between the whites, taking sides, as in the Revolution, against each other.
It has been my good fortune to hear him a few times, but only of late years, and when his powers were enfeebled by age, and still more, by intemperance.
The effort he made on this occasion, added to his exertions previous to the gathering of the council, was too great for his aged and enfeebled condition.
Till the powers of the mind, therefore, are sufficiently enfeebled by time and perseverance, it will struggle with its fetters, and it will be repressed only by coercion.
To fatigue the body is to fatigue the intelligence: he had enfeebled himself as a person stupefies himself with laudanum.
He continued thus for a long time, stretched back on his armchair, smoking cigarettes, wearied from his night and still enfeebled by a protracted bath.
Bleeding is not to be used, because it would only still further weaken an already enfeebled animal; antimony or the alterants would increase the depression of a too-depraved constitution.
A sudden rise of the body temperature of 1° or 2°, with a more enfeebled pulse and a still more tumultous heart, develop simultaneously with the appearance of a discharge from the nostrils.
The sinapism will draw the current of the circulation to the exterior, the metastasis to the lungs or intestines is prevented, and the enfeebled nervous system is stimulated to renewed vigor by the peripheral irritation.
A fever set in; and it soon became apparent that his frame, enfeebled by his unparalleled fatigues and hardships, was rapidly sinking under it.
The heroic little band were too much enfeebled by their long fatigues, and by the total want of food for the last two days, to make head against the overwhelming number of their assailants.
Though enfeebled by his malady, he allowed himself no repose, but gave unremitting attention to business.
The power would pass from his enfeebled hands to those of a Reichstag brimming over with enthusiasm and consumed with ambition.
The noble aim pursued by the Lutheran Reformation could not be realized without internal struggles that drained Germany of her sap for many a long year, while the Imperial sceptre came near to falling from the enfeebled grasp of the Hapsburgs.
Sahela Selassie was clad in the plainest of garments, and appeared much enfeebled and emaciated by rigorous mortification, but was in high spirits at the prospect of speedy release from the irksome penance.
But the enfeebled frame of the aged warrior was unable to withstand fatigues and he died of exposure on the march.
The lady's strength, enfeebled as it was by grief, and perhaps by the absence of nourishment, seemed scarcely adequate to the task which she had assigned herself.
When the day's task was finished, jaded spirits, and a body enfeebled by reluctant application, were but little adapted to domestic enjoyments.
In that enfeebled clutch the pen itself tends to waggle and drop; and hence, in short, my appearance of languor over the inkstand.
They say that Clarke would have been there," spoke young Fitzjames, "but that he was too enfeebled by captivity to walk in the procession.
In old age, waste exceeds repair; hence the powers are enfeebled and the skin lies in wrinkles on the shrunken form.
Though the task was holy, the Aged One suffered it to be performed by a woman because years and fatigue had enfeebled him.
For they did not understand that the power of the wine and the habit of singing imparted to the musician a strength which otherwise would have been denied him by enfeebled nerve and muscle.
Far otherwise is it with one who is enfeebled by great neglect of self.
Those enfeebled by illness are distressed by noises which those in health bear with equanimity; and men with overwrought brains are irritated in unusual degrees by annoyances, both physical and moral.
Aurelius, and the extravagances of Commodus, had injured the empire, but not enfeebled it.
In an empire so enfeebled in itself, and which, nevertheless, had powerful foes on every side to contend with, it followed that every active reign would be oppressive.
The advice contained in this letter was most unpalatable to the enfeebled monarch.
I prefer a young man to be a little less scintillant, than that his brilliancy should be at the expense of exhausted nerves andenfeebled vitality.
Many another has had his faith in God and humanity and the effectiveness of the eternal verities in the world's work enfeebled and even shattered by what he felt was the world's disbelief in them.
But the face above it was very pale yet, and the cruel knife wounds were still sore, and the whole man enfeebled in limb by long bed-keeping.
Not a word, Marjorie," breathed rather than spoke the enfeebled lawyer.
Mrs. Carruthers told them that excitement had been too much for the enfeebled patient.
The latter reported that his patient was restored to animation, but this restoration was accompanied with fear and delirium, the effects of which on a rapidly enfeebled body he greatly dreaded.
It might, perhaps, a priori have been imagined that a Church with so much diversity of opinion and of spirit was an enfeebled and disintegrated Church, but no candid man will attribute such a character to the Church of England.
There he continued encamped for several days, and his soldiers were refreshed, who had been enfeebled by winter marches and marshy ground, and with a battle more successful in its result than light or easy.
