It may be observed, in conclusion, that the morality thus enjoined by the law was not, as now, sapped by the example of fabled gods, or by the debauchery permitted in the religious ceremonies of certain sects.
His yielding and gentle nature is accustomed to submit to the force of a climate that has sapped all his energy and to a long slavery.
Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, Their houses fell upon their household gods.
He succeeded to great captains who had sappedthe whole stamina and resistance of the contest.
The French army had not been demoralized by defeat, or wearied by long inaction, or sapped by destructive propaganda.
It has often been thought since, as it was thought by timorous reactionaries at the time, that Christianity in various ways sapped the strength of the Roman Empire, and opened the way for the barbarians.
It is to do one's best to keep society for an indefinite time sapped by hollow and void professions, instead of being nourished by sincerity and whole-heartedness.
He reeled like a drunkard, sapped of strength, and then the end came quickly.
The changing conditions of the last three centuries, however, reacted in many ways to the detriment of women's domestic energies and sapped their pride in the vocation of housewife.
You have sapped the foundations of society; you have destroyed almost all hope of peace.
What is to become of the family of the laboring man whose strength has been sappedby excessive toil and who has been thrown upon the industrial scrap heap?
Licentiousness and profligacy had sappedthe strength of the army during the weak preceding reigns, and Alexander sought earnestly to overcome this corruption and restore the rigid ancient discipline.
This, after the privations and hardships he had recently suffered, sapped his iron constitution.
After the war came a rude struggle for existence--a struggle in which tuberculosis, contracted during his camp life, gradually sapped his strength.
I was as a man sapped of all strength by some portentous struggle.
Cavalcanti is in a raging fever, and he is sapped of strength, his body almost drained of blood.
Those long days of agonized desire for the vicious drug which had sapped his manhood!
Well, this great system had its day, and then it was sapped and mined by two influences.
The sun swam in cloudless skies, pouring down a heat that burned Bill's flesh and sapped his vitality.
A few talked in low tones as though the humidity had sapped all vitality from their voices.
The responsibility for there being no regulars did not rest with him, nor yet with the Secretary, but with the men who for a dozen years had sapped the military preparation of the nation.
It is to be feared that the long ascendency of the gunboat policy in the councils of the Government had sapped the professional intelligence even of some naval officers.
My influence, I knew, was sapped by Volmar's guileful insinuations, and I could not doubt that finally I should be worsted unless I could prove Volmar to be the traitor he was.
Thence he contrived to reach London, only to fall on evil hap, for his sufferings in captivity had sapped his strength, and, when he sought employment in his own trade he found no master mariner willing to accept him.
Chief among the new ideals that sapped the old Roman strength must be mentioned the new Christian religion, with its doctrine of other- worldliness and its system of government not responsible to the Empire.
The most famous of all these Greek institutions, however, was the University of Alexandria, which gradually sapped Athens as a center of learning and became the intellectual capital of the world.
Alexandria, too, came under Roman rule and was, in turn, gradually sapped by Rome.
The Austrian officer fought gamely, and while Huger held the horses Bollman ran to the aid of the Frenchman, whose strength had been sapped by his long imprisonment.
In the spring of 1834 he caught a severe cold, which sapped his strength.
Kill La Pommeraye himself he knew he could not, but the old honour of the man had become so sapped that he felt little compunction when he resolved to have him murdered under his own roof.
Weakened by his long imprisonment, his arms almost useless through lack of employment, his strength sapped for want of proper nourishment, De Pontbriand was manfully struggling with the salt, green waves.
Two centuries of recruiting in the Balkans and West Asia had sapped their resources.
Russia, seeking an economic outlet, had sapped her way south to the Euxine shore, and was on the point of challenging the Osmanli right to that sea.
Repeated effort was rapidly exhausting Osmanli strength, sapped as it was by increasing internal disease: and when a crisis arrived with the accession of the Empress Catherine, it proved too weak to meet it.
The vitality of Greece was chiefly sapped by the ruthless military organization of the Ottoman state.
It was too much like stock-jobbing, and sapped all spirit of industry.
They doggedly sapped his reputation by fresh calumnies.
So long as there was a man (Mirabeau) between the throne and themselves, they had played with the republic and sapped the throne in order to crush a rival.
But all the various chiefs had separate interests and opposite views; while the fanatic violence of the people of Ghent sapped the foundations of the pacification to which the town had given its name.
His father had alreadysapped its foundations, by encouraging foreign manners and ideas among the nobility, and dazzling them with the hope of the honors and wealth which he had at his disposal abroad.
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