A maiming subserviency is so conditional to their very existence that it becomes an aim in itself, an ideal. ❋ Unknown (1914)
The endowments of the mind -- reason, wit, learning, must be used in subserviency to religion; the enjoyments of the world -- estate, credit, interest, power, preferment, must be improved for the honour of Christ. ❋ Unknown (1721)
First, What the Father has as Creator is delivered over to the Son, to be used and disposed of in subserviency to his great undertaking. ❋ Unknown (1721)
But that which completes the comfort of this is that he is the head over all things to the church; he is entrusted with all power, that is, that he may dispose of all the affairs of the providential kingdom in subserviency to the designs of his grace concerning his church. ❋ Unknown (1721)
The great duty of children is to obey their parents (v. 1), parents being the instruments of their being, God and nature having given them an authority to command, in subserviency to God; and, if children will be obedient to their pious parents, they will be in a fair way to be pious as they are. ❋ Unknown (1721)
Though this mammon of unrighteousness is not to be trusted to for a happiness, yet it may and must be made use of in subserviency to our pursuit of that which is our happiness. ❋ Unknown (1721)
The fact is that his temper was so amiable and conciliatory, his conduct so rational, never urging impossibilities, or even things unreasonably inconvenient to them, in short so moderate and attentive to their difficulties, as well as our own, that what his enemies called subserviency I saw was only that reasonable disposition which, sensible that advantages are not all to be on one side, yielding what is just and liberal, is the more certain of obtaining liberality and justice. ❋ Unknown (1888)
Many of the men sprang forward, officiously, to offer their services, either from the hope of the reward, or from that cringing subserviency which is one of the most baleful effects of slavery. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
In 1856, the American Party opposed "the reckless and unwise policy of the present administration" and "a truckling subserviency" to "foreigners." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Among them are the lack of intellectual independence among teachers, their tendency to intellectual subserviency. ❋ Bill Kerr (2009)
It often happens, owing, I suppose, to the perversity of human nature, that subserviency in trifles is more difficult to a proud mind, than compliance in matters of more importance. ❋ Unknown (2008)
They fail utterly to realize that if we are to continue in machine subserviency, our slavery is more complete than was our bondage to the King. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The million succeeds in exacting an amount of cringing political subserviency, in attempting to obtain which, in a like degree, few despots have been successful. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It might be only the false mouth, so smooth and wide; and yet there seemed to lurk beneath the humility and subserviency of this short speech, ❋ Unknown (2007)
Whence it follows that to study them for their own sake would be just as wise, and to as good purpose as if a man, neglecting the true use or original intention and subserviency of language, should spend his time in impertinent criticisms upon words, or reasonings and controversies purely verbal. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Another is the near total subserviency of corrupt politicians, especially of the Democratic Party, who do not speak up because they are on the take. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Others will spend years in degrading subserviency to obtain a niche in a will; and the niche, when at last obtained and enjoyed, is but ❋ Unknown (2004)
