Salfi goes so far as to say we can hardly read Calderon without indignation; since he seems to have had no view but to make his genius subservient to the lowest prejudices and superstitions of his country.
It must be had, he says, but only assubservient to greater qualities.
But he seemed to make every foreign consideration subservient to the object of domestic aggression which he had so much at heart.
This and such minor efforts were, however, allsubservient to the one grand object of utterly destroying, by a public proscription, the whole of the patriot party, now identified with Arminianism.
Just as state government must defer to Federal authority, so local government is subservient to state authority.
The typical American city is subservient to the state legislature, the powers of city government being enumerated in a charter received from the legislature.
He has an inherent nobleness unknown to the latter, but unfortunately made subservient to a banality which even the genius of Balzac cannot efface.
These books were subservient to the analysis of loci, but the four lemmas which refer to them and which occur at the end of the seventh book of the Mathematical Collection, throw very little light on their contents.
So complete was the universal devotion to slavery in all sections of the South, and so baneful its effects upon the people, that all other considerations were made subservient to this.
All his Religion and Hopes were subservient to the present Circumstances of Times, and his Faith depended on the Advantages he could make.
That all the Power of Kings, ought to be subservient to this Sovereign End, as becomes Sons of the Church, and Promoters of the Apostolical preaching, which is continu'd by Succession.
That primitive holiness which consisteth in the love of God, and the exercise and delights thereof, will be perfected; and those subservient duties of holiness, which consist in the use of recovering means, will cease as needless.
When the principal causes co-operate not with us, and we are but subservient moral causes; we can but persuade men to repent, believe, and love God and goodness.
All government of men is but subservient to the government of God, to promote obedience to his laws.
In Spain, where art was always in the especial service of the priesthood, and not unfrequently subservient to priestcraft, religion was a requisite of painters to a much later date.
For them it suffices to live in ease and, with safety guaranteed, to be subservient to others, but for us it is inevitable to toil and march and amid dangers to preserve our existing prosperity.
Now it belongs to him who is stationed over another both to think out and to command the requisite course, and to him who is made subservient to obey without questioning and to put the order into action.
But it requires to be completed by the further detail that the queen put her lover in her husband's way, and that the king was guided by them, when he thought he was ruling for himself through a subservient minister.
The use of fraud and perfidy, of cruelty and injustice, were often subservient to the propagation of the faith; and Mahomet commanded or approved the assassination of the Jews and idolaters who had escaped from the field of battle.
Some of them live on the produce of the land and waters assigned to them; others, subservient to a chief, live on the alms of the people; a more certain source than the hard won produce of the ground.
Whilst Faulcon was doing his best to ensure the prosperity of the state, the nobles, jealous of his power and influence were humiliated by having to be subservient to a foreigner.
One of them is so subservient to the other, so united, and interwoven with it, that it must be reckon'd rather a Part of the same, than a distinct Action.
But little did he know the true cause of this unusual wakefulness, or suspect that God was about to render it subservient to accomplish his divine intentions.
Cranmer is called subservient mainly because his convictions were on the king’s side.
Whether it was subservient or not, Cromwell had nothing to do with packing it: it was only at the last moment that he was provided with a seat in it.
S: And He has made subservient for you the night and the day and the sun and the moon, and the stars are made subservient by His commandment; most surely there are signs in this for a people who ponder; 016.
S: Do you not see that Allah has made subservient to you whatsoever is in the earth and the ships running in the sea by His command?
P: And He hath constrained the night and the day and the sun and the moon to be of service unto you, and the stars are made subservient by His command.
S: Do you not see that Allah has made what is in the heavens and what is in the earth subservient to you, and made complete to you His favors outwardly and inwardly?
P: Hast thou not seen how Allah hath made all that is in the earth subservient unto you?
He covereth the night with the day, which is in haste to follow it, and hath made the sun and the moon and the stars subservient by His command.
S: And He has made subservientto you the sun and the moon pursuing their courses, and He has made subservient to you the night and the day.
About this same time, Palma, who was governor of Syria, subdued the portion of Arabia, near Petra, and made it subservient to the Romans.
Then, silence having been proclaimed, he recovered courage and quelling his pride made himself subservient to the occasion and to his need, caring little how humbly he spoke, in view of the prize he hoped to obtain.
When advanced to preside over the destinies of the world, he was never ensnared by the increase of greatness so as to show himself in some things more subservient and in others more haughty than was fitting.
How much better to have been slain and perish rather than go about with subservient heads!
Both arise from good causes which operate in the several governments; that is, the manners of each government are subservient to its particular interest.
Our manners are wholly subservientto the interest of foreign nations.
But, aside from all other considerations, is it not the most supreme selfishness for a man to consider only himself in his sexual relations, making his wife wholly subservient to his own desires?
Man is the only animal that abuses his sexual organization by making it subservient to other ends than reproduction; hence he is the only sufferer from this foul disease, which is one of the penalties of such abuse.
It was first submitted to some of the smaller states, as Artois, Namur, and Luxemburg, as most likely to prove subservient to the wishes of the government.
The regular forms of procedure were too dilatory, and the judges themselves would hardly be found subservient enough to the will of Alva.
Whatever weight he may have had in the cabinet, it had not been such as to enable him to make the politics of England subservient to his own interests, or, what was the same thing, to those of his father.
He had been subservient to Nicholas, extravagantly amused to learn of the trick that had been played.
I leave the reader at his leisure to consider; as also whether every obstacle does not, in the progress of the story, act as subservient to that purpose, which at first it seems to oppose.
It was only when composition passed through the prolific minds of such artists as Paul Veronese, Tintoret, and Rubens, that it was made subservient to the bustle, animation, and picturesque effect of their works.
