The tendency is to raise every thing that is elsewhere degraded to a respectable height, when there commences an attraction of gravitation that draws all towards the centre; a little closer too than could be wished perhaps.

Yes: he was one of the COOKS or one of the BUTLERS, we have forgotten which; but it is certain that he was degraded from the peerage for offering some of his sauce to the reigning British monarch of his time.

There is nothing degrading in it.

But there never has been even a living true symbol which the dulness of those who will see the truth only in the symbol has not degraded into the very cockatrice-egg of sectarianism.

This narrative exhibits a pattern of honesty, prudence, and industry, to people of his own colour; and perhaps some white people would not find themselves degraded by imitating such an example.

How was it to be expected that anything else could happen among a people so degraded as the Neapolitans, one hundred years behind the people of North Italy in civilization, in intelligence, in wealth, and in morals,in everything that qualifies a people for liberty or self-government?

In an intercepted correspondence of the Emperor of Morocco, found at the Battle of Isly, Spaniards are called, "The most degraded of the human race.

Here, then, were human beings, children of our common Father, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, classed with the brutes that perish,nay, degraded below them, and placed under the surveillance of dogs.

If the Germans were indifferent to this one elementary rule of the white race in equatorial Africathe white man's law that no white man be degraded before a nativethen the Belgian would show the Hun how to play the game.

They were evidently rather a degraded than an undeveloped race.

Degraded at court, deprived of the great offices of the state, despised, rejected, and persecuted, it languished and declined.

The sense is quite plain if we remember that soldiers degraded on account of misconduct were made "pioners": vid.

Sore wept the centaur, and to Phoebus prayed; But how could Phoebus give the centaur aid? Degraded of his power by angry Jove, In Elis then a herd of beeves he drove; And wielded in his hand a staff of oak, And o'er his shoulders threw the shepherd's cloak; On seven compacted reeds he used to play, And on his rural pipe to waste the day.

There was an existence of power, to which no good king would aspire; and there was an extreme condition of subjection, to which man could not be degraded without injustice; and this they would maintain, was the condition of the African, who was torn away into slavery.

One of the most degraded among the sweating industries in the country is chain and nail-making.

The book was, however, of great service to dramatic poetry, which, from that time, was less degraded by licence and indelicacy.

" Occasionally you will find them degraded from their high estate and fallen among the riff-raff of slang.

Under such officers, a motley army has been collected, composed of foreigners who have toiled in Southern cities as draymen and porters, of Northern clerks driven by coercion or sheer necessity to enlist, the poor whites, the outcasts of the South, a class the most degraded in public estimate,a class which has the respect of neither the white man nor the negro.

"I am degraded for ever.

Perhaps more than a mile in average depth has the range been thus degraded during the last glacial period,a quantity of mechanical work almost inconceivably great.