degener

Huic sensus exuperat, sed est pudori degener sanguis.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Huic sensus exuberat, sed est pudori degener sanguis, &c. He is rich, but base born; he is noble, but poor; a third hath means, but he wants health peradventure, or wit to manage his estate; children vex one, wife a second, &c.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

State puts him in chains; he is born good but degener - ates at the hands of society.

PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN JOHN PASSMORE 1968

Poetic renderings contrast the innocence of the original conditions with the degener - acy of actual society.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SANFORD A. LAKOFF 1968

Huic census exuberat, sed est pudori degener sanguis; hunc nobilitas notum facit, sed angustia rei familiaris inclusus esse mallet ignotus.

The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

Primum eorum qui propriam potentiam in patria sua amplificare cupiunt; quod genus vulgare est et degener.

Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

Una innata quam legem naturalem dicimus, altera inspirata, quam divinam_, &c. _Ex his ergo fontibus lex humana procedit: hoec incunabila illius à quibus si aberrat, lex degener est, indigna legis nomine.

The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

In celeberrimi hujus vi. i nomen, familiam et virtutes successit proefatus Gulielmus Grimston, Pronepos hsres - que non degener, qui atavorum meritis hoc addidit proprium, ut in difficilli - mis temporibus, cum successio nostra in haec regna periclitaretur, stienuum se juris nostri bonique publici propugnatorem praestaret.

Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

Hac neque confilii, neque degener ingent, fecutus i£quis adurges mfibus volantem.

Matthiae Casimiri Sarbievii e Societate Jesu, Carmina Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Joannes Michael van der Ketten 1791

Fortunate animi, longumque in faecula digne Promeriture diem! non tu pia degener anna Occulis, aut certae trqpidas occurrere morti.

The Works of the English Poets 1779