31 adverbs to describe how to degrades

" Nothing could more plainly show the corrupting influences of slavery, upon all within its reach, than this spectacle of a noble, religious institution, prostituted to the vile work of defending oppression, and, in the zeal of its advocacy, blasphemously degrading the Savior into a self-made slave!

Into this infinitely degraded residuum of a vanished race entered the new energizing force when the divine creative energy came once more into operation, in the fullness of time, and the Minoan, the Egyptian and the Greek came almost in an hour to their highest perfection.

The yacht was well found, provided with all things needful for comfort, and Lesbia could be nowhere better off until she was safe in her old home:that home she had left so gaily, in the freshness of her youthful inexperience, nearly a year ago, and to which she would return so battered and broken, so deeply degraded by the knowledge of evil.

It is a privilege of honourable persons that they are excused from swearing, and that their verbum honoris passeth in lieu of an oath: is it not then strange, that when others dispense with them, they should not dispense with themselves, but voluntarily degrade themselves, and with sin

Meanwhile Clodiusa sort of milder Catiline, not without many popular qualitieshad got himself elected tribune; degrading himself formally from his own order of nobles for that purpose, since the tribune must be a man of the commons.

Lucian humorously degrades him from the character of a hero, and gives him hellebore as a madman.

In addition, they saw an old chaise, once the yellow postchaise, the pride and glory of the establishment, now reduced from its wheels and ignominiously degraded to a hen house.

Fate decrees them a happy marriage; but, if otherwise, give their existence some object, their time some occupation, or the peevishness of disappointment, and the listlessness of idleness will infallibly degrade their nature....

Being now at an age in which young women are initiated into company, I was no longer to be supported in my former character, but at a considerable expense; so that partly lest I should waste money, and partly lest my appearance might draw too many compliments and assiduities, I was insensibly degraded from my equality, and enjoyed few privileges above the head servant, but that of receiving no wages.

" This poor sketch of the conception of the universe, to which I had conquered my way at the cost of so much pain, and which was the inner centre round which my life revolved for twelve years, may perhaps show that the Atheistic Philosophy is misjudged sorely when it is scouted as vile or condemned as intellectually degraded.

He maintained that unless masters could lawfully degrade their slaves to the condition of beasts, they were just as much bound to teach them to read the Bible as to teach any other class of their population.

Even now, genteel ignorance is not esteemed the acme of feminine perfection, except by those theorists who would degrade woman mentally, that they themselves may thus acquire so much a higher elevationat least in their own imaginationsas to stand to them in God's stead, or, at the very least, to be a semi-deity whose superior wisdom is to be worshiped.

He held a logic too much in common with the rest, to denounce the tongues as mere carnal excitement; but he does anxiously degrade them as of lowest spiritual value, and wholly prohibits them where there is "no interpreter."

Religion, the holiest of sentiments, and Christianity, the most sacred of its forms, were perpetually degraded by being made the pretexts for that unworthy object.

" "My, gracious, Mr. Jenkins, I never knocked a living soul, but I don't mind telling you as a friend that I personally would not degrade myself by speaking to her, and of course you know that the hair she wears is not her own.

I did not stay to listen to the details of their petition, for I am unable to command myself on such occasions, and Mr. seemed positively degraded in my eyes, as he stood enforcing upon these women the necessity of their fulfilling their appointed tasks.

He will rise, therefore, every now and then, above the level to which he has professedly degraded himself; and make amends for that transgression, by a fresh effort of descension.

To see my rest destroyed? A soul so delicate and fair Should simply saunter through the air And cultivate the void; One would not readily degrade One's loveliness in any trade, Only, of course, one must be paid For being unemployed.

In the hands of the later painters the result was just the reversewhat was most spiritual, most hallowed, most elevated, became secularized, materialized, and shockingly degraded.

The majesty of Milton's verse is strangely degraded in the following speeches, which precede the rising of Pandaemonium.

Granted that woman is weak because she has been systematically degraded; but why was she degraded?

Thirdly, To degrade the Prince of Orange.

During that lower epoch, woman was necessarily an inferior,degraded by abject labor, even in time of peace,degraded uniformly by war, chivalry to the contrary notwithstanding.

To use these properly they must be gradually restored to that level, from which they had been so unjustly degraded.

The character of Jones, otherwise a model of generosity, openness, and manly spirit, mingled with thoughtless dissipation, is unnecessarily degraded by the nature of his intercourse with lady Bellaston.

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