No teacher is provided for him, but the Driver, who breaks him, almost in childhood, to the servile tasks which are to fill up his life.
Were our national union dissolved, we ought to reprobate, as sternly as we now do, the slightest manifestation of a disposition to stir up a servile war.
The principles of Christianity deeply engraved on their hearts would be infinitely more powerful than the false honor of monarchies, the human virtues of republics, or the servilefear which operates under despotism.
Neither, again, is it out of a servile fear that Turks and Russians fight with the fierceness and rage of lions and tigers.
The Jewish people had no need to make search for their famous exploits or the monuments of their intellectual powers; even in their apparently servile condition these were not wanting.
But this bright side of their servilestate seemed to him only a secondary matter.
What he correctly recognized as the reason of the resistance to the doctrines of Judaism, "the simplicity and servile condition of its adherents," repelled even him.
But the accumulated sufferings of the Jews, and the servile form assumed by Judaism, had caused this fact to be so entirely forgotten, that its own sons had no idea thereof.
Judaism, however, was less rapid in casting off servile forms than its followers.
Bonnet himself, less objectionable than his servile flatterer, admitted the justice of Mendelssohn's cause, and complained of Lavater's injudicious zeal.
At this time even infants seemed to possess a servile appearance.
What creeping paralysis of immoral apathy had stricken this corrupt and servile aristocracy, this nerveless and obsequious Senate?
Hurried to a place of servile execution, he maintained a disdainful silence, not even reproaching the tribune Statius, an accomplice in the conspiracy, by whose hand he was to die.
Slaves naturally imitate the vices of their masters, and the wicked world of the aristocracy was reflected in darker colours in the wicked world of servile myriads.
But a fair youth, in servile dress, alone, in a crowded town, could hardly escape falling among companions of the lowest type.
In every way it would conduce to the advancement and happiness of the servile caste.
You too know, that among us, white men have an equality resulting from a presence of the lower caste, which cannot exist where white men fill the position here occupied by the servile race.
While reading the inscription on it, one of the servile courtiers who accompanied him proposed to open the grave, and give the ashes of the "heretic" to the winds.
It is only through weakness of purpose that young people, as well as old, become the slaves of their inclinations, or give themselves up to a servile imitation of others.
This servile pandering to popularity has been rapidly on the increase of late years, and its tendency has been to lower and degrade the character of public men.
We may be its willing subject on the one hand, or its servile slave on the other.
Otherwise any victory the masses might achieve would be followed by the same hideous results as in Russia--in other words, the same results that had followed all servile uprisings since the dawn of history.
Sniff, bore away by his servile disposition, had drored up his leg with a higher and a higher relish, and was now discovered to be waving his corkscrew over his head.
Not now Should chieftain bend with servile reverence o'er The fading pageantry of Paynim lore.
Almost every writer who preceded him had been more or less devoted to translations and servile copies of foreign literature.
He had feared to have his son contaminated and debased by a servile station, and he now saw him transferred to the seminary of a gaol.
Besides this, I was but ill prepared for theservile submission Mr. Falkland demanded.
Every thing must give way to his accommodation and advantage; every one must yield the most servileobedience to his commands.
We have pointed out one such opponent[56] of the established systems, even among the Arabian schoolmen, a more servile race than ever the Europeans were.
Their leaders had taught them that the one necessarily involved the other, and that a man who was in favor of the Wilmot Proviso was as bitter an enemy to the South as one who incited a servile insurrection.
The feeling of peace at home has given place to apprehensions of servile insurrections, and many a matron throughout the South retires at night in dread of what may befall herself and her children before morning.
They could see no way, and they no longer desired to see a way, by which they might rid themselves of theservile labor which was at once their strength and their weakness.
No servile insurrection or tendency to cruelty has marked the measures of emancipation and the arming of the blacks.
Christian mysteries are debased in the streets to the sound of drum and trumpet, and the sensitive ear of the telephone is but a servile drudge 'twixt speculative bacon merchants.
Once a muse, now a servile drudge 'twixt man and man.
I was so young when called to the episcopate that I lived in a state of continual mistrust and uncertainty; doubtful about this, scrupulous about that; ignorance being the grandmother of scruples, as servile fear is their mother.
Neither servile fear nor mercenary hope has any part in their pure affection.
That is to say, with a true and disinterested love, for love of Himself alone, not from a servile and mercenary spirit; i.
Nay, even servile and mercenary motives, although interested, may yet be good, provided they have nothing in them that cannot be referred to God.
They who are so much attached to servile fear can have no real desire to attain to that holy, pure, loving, reverent fear which leads to everlasting rest, and which the Saints and Angels practise through all eternity.
Now the truth is that some observe the law of God from a servile spirit, and only for fear of losing their souls.
Torture, whitch had always been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May, 1640.
To exert muscular strength; to exert one's strength with painful effort, particularly in servile occupations; to work; to toil.
Defn: The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.
Defn: The act of flattering to gain favor; servile approbation.
Defn: To act or serve as lackey; to pay servile attendance.
From the periodical deliveries of these characteristic articles of servile costume (blue coats) came our word livery.
Defn: Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.
Defn: Formerly, in Ireland, a kind of servile tenure which subjected the tenant to maintain his chieftain gratuitously whenever he wished to indulge in a revel.
And flight and die is death destroying death; Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
A base parasite; a mean or servile flatterer; especially, a flatterer of princes and great men.
For all that, this development of the sex interest was continuously very interesting to Kipps, and kept him going as much as anything through all these servile years.
He would compare his dismal round of servile drudgery with those windy, sunlit days at Littlestone, those windows of happiness shining ever brighter as they receded.
To serve as a deterrent, the penalty must strike the point where vests the discretion; but servile use and wont is still too well intact in these premises to let any penalty touch the guilty core of a profligate dynasty.
They languidly saw the Catholic Hapsburgs becoming absolute in the land, while the Court at Vienna and the smaller German Courts were absorbed in establishing servile imitations of the Court at Versailles.
We hear that ninety German authors dedicated books to him and that servile newspapers were praising him; and we know that one of the immortal compositions of Beethoven was inspired by him.
The existence of a formerlyservile race now ten millions strong still influences the whole development of the South.
