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.

In the place of existing conditions, it would erect a mob tyranny more degrading to the individual than Czarism or Republicanism.

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?

The degrading of high Moorish Functionaries.

It must be confessed, however, that the national character of the Spaniards is not suitable to produce and enjoy in perfection this most desirable state of affairs; it is to be feared that their bigotry would preclude religious toleration, their indolence continue the present system of slavery, so degrading in a particular manner to a republic, their want of energy paralyze the operations of enterprising foreigners among them.

It has been attempted to claim that this difference in criminality is due to social condition's, because the agricultural conditions in eastern Sicily are less degrading than those of Girgenti and Trapani, where the sulphur mines compel the miners to live miserably.

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.

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

" I wished she was not going; there seemed something degrading about the arrangement.

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

This polytheism of Greece was exceedingly complicated, but was not so degrading as that of Egypt, since the gods were not represented by the forms of hideous animals, and the worship of them was not attended by revolting ceremonies; and yet it was divested of all spiritual aspirations, and had but little effect on personal struggles for truth or holiness.

There was a low religious life, almost no religion at all, and what there was was degrading by its superstition.

There was no service she would deem degrading for his sake.

"I am degraded for ever.

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.

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.

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.