I do not know that I carried much away with me, except the general impression, that our trade is carried on on principles which are dishonest as regards the Chinese, and demoralising to our own people.

When we consider who were Seneca's accusers, we are not forced to believe his guilt; his character was indeed deplorably weak, and the laxity of the age in such matters was fearfully demoralising; but there are sufficient circumstances in his favour to justify us in returning a verdict of "Not guilty."

Nature is the only doctor who ever cures anybody, Colonel; we humans, for all our pill-boxes and lancets, can only prompt herand devilish demoralising advice we generally give her, too," he added, with a chuckle.

The judges, moreover, in the Anglo-Saxon communities are appointed from among the leading barristers, an arrangement that a child can see is demoralising and inadvisable.

You find it, as described by a witness called yesterday, in the overcrowding of our cities and country villages, and the necessarily demoralising effects resulting from that over-crowding.

The Solicitor-General, while doubtless admitting the evils and mischiefs of excessive population, argues that the checks proposed are demoralising in their effects, and that it is better to bear the ills we have than have recourse to remedies having such demoralising results.

The Solicitor-General, while doubtless admitting the evils and mischiefs of excessive population, argues that the checks proposed are demoralising in their effects, and that it is better to bear the ills we have than have recourse to remedies having such demoralising results.

Each year more little ones are brought in from the fields and hills to live in the degrading and demoralising atmosphere of the mill towns...." Children are deliberately imported by the Italians.

Hurried and driven men glorify "push" and impatience, and despise finish and fine discriminations as weak and demoralising things.

It is hard to decide which is the more discreditable and demoralising sight.

Such incidents were happening constantly to-day, and seriously demoralising the dog teams.

I laughed at these verbal eccentricities, but they were not without their effect, and that effect was a demoralising one; for in me they aggravated the fever of the unknown, and whetted my appetite for the strange, abnormal and unhealthy in art.

Remember, too, that War must always have its demoralising features, however splendid the cause for which you are fighting.

The rear of a battle is, even in the time of victory, a place of demoralising influence.

You mustn't make such a racket or they'll put us both out!"keeping the table carefully between them, dodging every strategy of his, every endeavour to make her prisoner, quick, graceful, demoralising in her beauty and abandon.

"I will now further prove to you the truth of my assertion concerning this degrading and demoralising condition of affairs.

If, in any way, her faith in you has been poisoned, remember what was laid before her, proven in black and white, apparently; remember, more than that, the terrible and physically demoralising strain she has been under in the line of duty.

It may, however, be said in extenuation of the lack of hospitality on the part of the missionaries of which he complains, that many of the early residents and European visitors to New Zealand were of an undesirable class, and that they exercised a demoralising influence upon the Maoris.

But I will even go further: religions have very frequently a decidedly demoralising influence.

The demoralising influence of religion is less problematical than its moral influence.

Even Victor Hugo's strong spirit does not quite overcome the demoralising doctrine of a certain revolutionary school, though he has the poet's excuse.

I laughed at these verbal eccentricities, but they were not without their effect, and that a demoralising one; for in me they aggravated the fever of the unknown, and whetted my appetite for the strange, abnormal and unhealthy in art.

There is something very demoralising in the air of the Chambers; it makes the best people vain without their knowing it.

" So quickly has he outgrown his feelings of a year ago: then it was the intrigues of diplomatists that had seemed to him useless and demoralising.

When the German leaders began to disagree as to the best methods to conduct the war, the effect upon the people was demoralising.