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I presume a marriage33 which is contracted with some great family, superior in wealth and influence, bears away the palm, since it confers upon the bridegroom not pleasure only but distinction. 34 Next comes the marriage made with equals; and last, wedlock with inferiors, which is apt to be regarded as degrading and disserviceable.

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But sloth and formality herein is a sign of a thriftless state in the inner man: and all inventions of such formality are disserviceable unto the interest of grace.

Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965

Wherefore, to carry it out of the understandings of ordinary Christians, by speculative notions and distinctions, is disserviceable unto the faith of the church; yea, the mixing of evangelical revelations with philosophical notions has been, in sundry ages, the poison of religion.

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

If the acquisition of bad, that is, disserviceable habits, is disastrous to the individual, it is in some respects even worse in the group.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

We neither condemn nor praise the past as a whole; we regard specific institutions, customs, or ideas, as adequate or inadequate, as serviceable or disserviceable.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

To allow anywhere a disserviceable condition, when I could make it serviceable?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

Habits, and emotion; and instincts; disserviceable; education a deliberate acquisition of; formation of, influence of on thinking; modification of by reflection; of mind; specific not general; transference of.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

For where alert and conscious criticism of existing folkways is habitual among all the members of a society, that society is saved from subjection through inertia to disserviceable habits.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

Stromboli Smith OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation.

INTERNET WIRETAP: The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce (1993 Edition) 1911

Apart from the question of how far war can now settle any fundamental issues without begetting others as dangerous, China of all countries is the one where settlement by force, especially by outside force, is least applicable, and most likely to be enormously disserviceable.

China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference John Dewey 1905