But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favor arts and letters, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind. From LearnThat.org. [Joseph Addis]
Moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But for this precious seed, the chosen people would have resembled the cities of the plain, both in degeneracy of character and in merited doom. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
This suggests what kind of degeneracy villagers are liable to. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Undercover work necessarily breeds this kind of degeneracy and corruption. From Wordnik.com. [Ed Hamilton: Secret Police in an Open Society] Reference
In both cities there is graft, theft, degeneracy which is a great 19th century word and poverty. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Sighing for Versailles] Reference
I think there's a social preference for 1: 1, and using other odds signals a kind of degeneracy and familiarity with a subculture of dubious respect. From Wordnik.com. [Beating the Odds: Why Do People Insist on Even Bets?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
At the same time, the New English deployed concepts of "degeneracy" and called attention to the common Catholic faith that linked the "civilized" Old English with the. From Wordnik.com. [Catastrophic Dimensions:The Rupture of English and Irish Identities in Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1615] Reference
This degeneracy is now "constitutional law". From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
I wish James would write about modern society, about "degeneracy" and the new woman and all the rest of it. From Wordnik.com. [A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays] Reference
Until the risk of arrest for "degeneracy" became too great, the Swing Kids were a common sight upon the streets of Berlin. From Wordnik.com. [Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE] Reference
Germany and America have a common experience in recent industrial development, and a common belief in the "degeneracy" of all nations with. From Wordnik.com. [War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war] Reference
It’s this kind of degeneracy that paved the way for four terms for FDR. From Wordnik.com. [B&W World: Forbidden! – The Bleat.] Reference
Where a once timeless land has been assailed by degeneracy. From Wordnik.com. [E (novel extract)] Reference
Unlike man, the race-horse is kept from degeneracy by work. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Slowly, surely, Travis was going down in the scale of degeneracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Is the admitted increase in divorce wholly a testimony to moral degeneracy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
To hang upon that which is dark, direful, and saddening tends to degeneracy. From Wordnik.com. [Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.] Reference
Subsequently, Warmoth's utter degeneracy alienated him and so they parted company. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
They outraged them by the admixture of kindred blood, and degeneracy was often the result. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
The nearer one gets to the place, the further one is from the dark degeneracy of the place. From Wordnik.com. [A Mess] Reference
You are Canadian -- in you I can banish the coldness, hollowness, and degeneracy of Europe. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Besides, is there anything that makes more directly for degeneracy of character than such evasion?. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
We were sinking fast to low aims and selfish purposes, and wise men groaned at national degeneracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
That is, Abraham will not now acknowledge us for his children, by reason of our degeneracy; but thou. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Besides, is there anything that makes more directly for the degeneracy of character than such evasion?. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Nothing so much illustrates this mercy as the wretched degeneracy into which the subjects of it were fallen. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
It is a process, however, which if carried on through several generations, ends in deterioration and degeneracy. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
Forty per cent of existing blindness, and a vast amount of physical degeneracy, is the direct result of venereal causes. From Wordnik.com. [Five Lectures on Blindness] Reference
They remain as exceptional results of a common degeneracy of literature; the prevailing forms are not exactly of this special kind. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
The sociology of virtue is more problematic now than in Jefferson's day because our society is saturated by promptings to degeneracy. From Wordnik.com. [A Trickle-Down Culture] Reference
They were disturbing elements in the place and nothing was secure, not even the suppression of the women and the degeneracy of the men. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
It is said that the people of those days bewailed the degeneracy of the times, and spoke of the industry and frugality of earlier periods. From Wordnik.com. [The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts] Reference
While he inveighed against the degeneracy of the age, the women paid him no more attention than the age did, but just sent for the doctor. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
The Khutbas should not be long, for Muhammad said that long sermons and short prayers would be a sign of the degeneracy of the latter days. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
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