In such establishments, a business which in itself is disgusting, and perhaps barbarizing, almost ceases to be so, and the part of it which cannot be deprived of its disgusting circumstances is performed by a very few individuals. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Romans were essentially the leaders of civilization, according to the possibilities then existing; for their earliest usages and social forms involved a high civilization, whilst promising a higher: whereas all Moslem nations have described a petty arch of national civility -- soon reaching its apex, and rapidly barbarizing backwards. ❋ Various (N/A)
The privilege of barbarizing the Kings English is assumed by all ranks and conditions of men. ❋ Henry Louis (1921)
Education for the masses was not provided as it is now; but many Southern women were finely educated – were educated out of the barbarizing tendency to flatten their ❋ Unknown (1893)
These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit; besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and ❋ Various (1885)
Neither will they consent that the continent shall be overrun by the victims of a remorseless cupidity, and the elements of danger increased by the barbarizing influences which accompany the African slave trade. ❋ George Spring Merriam (1878)
No reflecting mind can fail to see how essentially anti-Christian and barbarous are such penalties; nor yet how barbarizing the influence of making the mind familiar with such monstrous mutilations. ❋ Elizabeth Willits Crooks (1875)
These are not matters to be wrung from poor striplings, like blood out of the nose, or the plucking of untimely fruit: besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom with their untutored Anglicisms, odious to read, yet not to be avoided without ❋ David Masson (1864)
The barbarizing effects of uncontrolled authority on minds in the least danger of being corrupted by its influence, may be seen in every page of the history of human nature, and is well illustrated in the invaluable tract of Bishop Porteus on the ❋ Unknown (1848)
Smyrna for some years; an original, who had taken upon himself the mission of re-barbarizing the East. ❋ Jules Sandeau (1847)
On the other hand a most effectual check to this process, a process sometimes barbarizing and defacing, however it may be the only one which will make the newly brought in entirely homogeneous with the old and already existing, is imposed by the existence of a much written language and a full formed literature. ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)
Nor is it merely probable that such a barbarizing process, such an adopting and sanctioning of a vulgarism, might take place, but among phonographers it already has taken place. ❋ Richard Chenevix Trench (1846)
However, on the one hand, things are not always as they seem; commerce has its ennobling effects, direct or indirect; war its barbarizing degradations. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
With these secret schools of physiological theology, the mythical poets were doubtless in connexion, and it was these schools which prevented polytheism from producing all its natural barbarizing effects. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
They have appealed directly to the argument of the greater number of voices, no matter whether the utterers were drunk or sober, competent or not competent; and they have done the utmost in their power to rase out the sacred principle in politics of a representation of interests, and to introduce the mad and barbarizing scheme of a delegation of individuals. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)
a very significant factor in the case -- that of the barbarizing, the deteriorating of the mind that cannot touch the black pitch of torture and not be defiled. ❋ Giberne Sieveking (N/A)
a high civilization, whilst promising a higher: whereas all Moslem nations have described a petty arch of national civility -- soon reaching its apex, and rapidly barbarizing backwards. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
Whether owing to the barbarizing of taste in the younger minds by the dark madness of the late war, the unabashed cultivation of selfishness in all classes, the plethoric growth of knowledge simultaneously with the stunting of wisdom, "a degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation" (to quote ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
System; its chattelizing, degrading, and bloody codes; its malignant, barbarizing spirit; all it was, and is; everything connected with it or pertaining to it, from the face of the Nation it has scarred with moral desolation, from the bosom of the Country it has reddened with the blood and strewn with the graves of patriotism. " ❋ John Alexander Logan (1856)
