1726 examples of degrades in sentences

" "But whowhois the miscreant that degrades his cause by such traffic?" "Oh, if you wait until you learn from me, you'll never be a dangerous accuser.

It is servitude which degrades the negro; and if the stigma which he now bears is removed, why should he not cling to the region in which he was born and bred, and to which he is adapted by nature?

We are delivered from that foolish vein of thought, so dear to ignorant conceit, which degrades the past in order to exalt the present and the future.

"I therefore make a loyal appeal to the whole nation, and I say to you: If you wish to continue this condition of uneasiness which degrades us and compromises our future, choose another in my place, for I will no longer retain a power which is impotent to do good, which renders me responsible for actions which I cannot prevent, and which binds me to the helm when I see the vessel driving towards the abyss.

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

It aims at the elimination of the parasitic element in society and of that dangerous factor which subsists on wealth it acquires without earning, and by sheer force of its own opulence dominates and degrades society.

It may be,nay, it is,fairly deducible from the words of the great Evangelist: but I cannot help thinking that, taken as the primary intention, it degrades this most divine chapter, which unites in itself the three characters of sublime, profound, and pregnant, and alloys its universality by a mixture of time and accident.

How guilt, once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great; See Cali, dread of kings, and pride of armies, By treason levell'd with the dregs of men!

[Sidenote: degrades the censorship.]

They took a warmth and glow from that pure animal joy which degrades not, but spiritualizes and ennobles our material part, and which differs from cold, abstract, intellectual enjoyment, as the flaming diamond of the Orient differs from the icicle of the North.

But I don't think it degrades or endangers us, for this reason, that, while it makes us charitable to the rest of mankind, our own sense of freedom, whatever it is, is never affected by argument.

I tell you of this institution so minutely, to prove to you how wrong it is to provide charitable homes for the poor as we provide them,homes in which the charity always humiliates and degrades the individual.

Secondlyfrom his syntactical parsing: "Vice degrades us."

He should here have said"Vice is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and nominative case: and is the subject of degrades; according to the rule which says, 'A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a verb, must be in the nominative case.'

Because the meaning isvice degrades."

If it degrades, it also sweetens; and only that is love which makes life richer and more worthy.

Hindley Earnshaw is brutal to the foundling, Heathcliff, and degrades him.

He would show how it degrades the finest characters who have suffered it to predominate.

It exalts, and not degrades, the memory of Shakspeare to think of him in this manner, as a man: for he was a man; he had eyes, hands, organs, dimensions, and so forth, the same that a Jew hath; a good many people saw him alive.

It degrades labor and corrupts leisure.

We can say of the governmental theory what Dr. Hodge said, "It degrades the work of Christ to the level of a governmental contrivance."

Whatever degrades the laborer and robs him of the fruits of his toil stifles the spirit of invention and forbids the utilization of inventions and discoveries even when made.

My cocoon tightens, colors tease, I'm feeling for the air; A dim capacity for wings Degrades the dress I wear.

Zola came to hate Catholicism as much as I, and his hatred was for the same reason as mine; we both learnt that any religion which robs a man of the right of free-will and private judgment degrades the soul, renders it lethargic and timid, takes the edge off the intellect.

All this degrades him, of course, but it improves the lecture for general delivery.

1726 examples of  degrades  in sentences