"Oh, penal servitude, I suppose; it's a serious business housebreaking.

The malevolent spirits were opposed and counteracted by various means of prevention: the good and tutelary were obliged to submit to n sort of gentle, involuntary servitude.

Do you really believe that patriarchal servitude was like American slavery?

1. atque etiam post saevit de futuro, which wrings his soul for the present, and to come: the greatest misery belongs to mankind, a perpetual servitude, a slavery, Ex timore timor, a heavy yoke, the seal of damnation, an intolerable burden.

"The loser," says he, "goes into a voluntary servitude, and though younger and stronger than the person with whom he played, patiently suffers himself to be bound and sold.

They inveighed against the arbitrary conduct of the king; his tyranny over the English, whom they affected on this occasion to commiserate; his imperious behaviour to his barons of the noblest birth; and his apparent intention of reducing the victors and the vanquished to a like ignominious servitude.

But thus guilty are you, if you are unwilling to believe, that, if He chose the severe servitude in question, He chose it for the punishment of his enemies, or from some consideration, other than its suitableness for the ordinary purposes of the relation of master and servant.

" It occurs to me, that after all which has been said to satisfy you, that compulsory servitude, if such there were among the Jews, cannot properly be pleaded in justification of yours; a question may still be floating in your mind whether, if God directed his chosen people to enslave the Heathen, slavery should not be regarded as a good system of servitude?

The conception of work as a degrading servitude, to be done with reluctance and grudging inefficiency, seems to be the ideal of millions of men of all classes and in all countries.

everything levelled by the equality of passive obedience and absolute servitude; he therefore takes the lead of the allied despots, to crush the spirit of liberty on earth.

If then He did not condemn Jewish temporary servitude, this does not prove that he would not have condemned such a monstrous system as that of AMERICAN slavery, if that had existed among them.

We practise what we should exclaim against as the utmost excess of cruelty and tyranny, if nations of the world, differing in colour and form of government from ourselves, were so possessed of empire as to be able to reduce us to a state of unmerited and brutish servitude.

How few of the discontented subjects of this oppressive servitude would agree with Hamlet, that it is better to "bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of.

] Ambialet was enjoying comparative freedom and self-government in an age when many a town was still in the midnight darkness of feudal servitude.

But the time soon came when Nancy was well enough to go back to her cruel servitude.

The boasted "freedom" of the mob proves to be the most bitter servitude of the best element and brings a common destruction upon both.

Jamaica, is in your handsshe requires repose, by the removal of a law which has equally tormented the laborer, and disappointed the plantera law by which man still constrains man in unnatural servitude.

A large number of them are what the British law terms apprentices, and are still bound in unremunerated servitude, though some of them for thrice seven years have been adepts in their trades, and not a few are earning their masters twenty or thirty dollars each month, clear of all expenses.

We tear them from every object of their affection, or, sad alternative, drag them together to the horrors of a mutual servitude!

But these flattering views were soon overcast by the appearance of the Danes, who, during some centuries, kept the Anglo-Saxons in perpetual inquietude, committed the most barbarous ravages upon them, and at last reduced them to grievous servitude.

" I was alone at the wheel, the sloop in my control, and somehow as I stood there, grasping those spokes, the swift boat leaping forward through the water, leaning recklessly over before the force of the wind, the numbing sense of helpless servitude left me in a new return of manhood and responsibility.

But she only knew that they had gone into hopeless servitude, where she knew not.

This is the most ignoble and shameful servitude of all!...

" It was to meet this challenge of despotism that the Scotic clans of Alba turned to their motherland for help, and the sea was "white with the hurrying oars" of the men of Erin speeding to the call of their Highland kinsmen, threatened with imperial servitude.

He alleged that he had killed the girl at her wish, and the judge sentenced him to three years, six months' imprisonmentnot even penal servitude!