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1. Not because of a slavish devotion to a single
2. However, their version of the one God hovers remotely over them, requiring only slavish adherence to ritualistic practices, at the center of which is a huge polished black stone (of possible meteoritic origin) that was also at the center of their pre-Islamic pagan ancestry
3. We will see in modern times the consequences of this slavish behavior; it will be seen to be completely consistent with the support of the Communist dictatorships of the twentieth century
4. He became a slavish sycophant to Joseph
5. 6 Jesus' antagonism to the Jewish traditions and slavish ceremonials was always positive
6. He denounced slavish devotion to meaningless ceremonials and exposed the fallacy of materialistic worship
7. I would deliver you from the bondage of driving yourselves through slavish fear to the irksome service of a jealous and wrathful King-God
8. I have come into the world to put love in the place of fear, joy in the place of sorrow, confidence in the place of dread, loving service and appreciative worship in the place of slavish bondage and meaningless ceremonies
9. And thus do they pervert and distort the Scriptures, making them the guide to slavish details of the daily life and an authority in things nonspiritual instead of appealing to the sacred writings as the repository of the moral wisdom, religious inspiration, and the spiritual teaching of the God-knowing men of other generations
10. he must lift his thoughts above slavish animal indulgence
11. While the previous Canadian government had been nearly slavish in espousing and supporting American policies around the World, the present one had quickly distanced itself from the United States in many respects, intent on building back for Canada a reputation as ‘an independent World middleman and honest broker’
12. The slavish way he led the consortium during the Terran occupation of Ceres, using his pacifist convictions as an excuse to do nothing while the ISF goons of Zembelo basically looted the place, totally discredited him in the eyes of our citizens
13. Just as slavish, mindless adherence to Aristotelian and Christian tradition retarded the progress of science for centuries, so too is the false doctrine of materialism retarding the progress of science at the present time
14. We need to turn from our victim slavish thinking and come into the inheritance God has for us
15. Hypnosis, on the other hand, brings about depression on the subconscious level, forming in this way the slavish psychology in the consciousness of a human
16. This unjust happenstance should be a cause of regret for the caste Hindus that their progenitors so mistreated the ancestors of these folks that forced them into an alien faith with a slavish ethos to God and a narrow vision of life that is firmly coupled with burdensome religious precepts and practices
17. the slavish imitator of a single author
18. Every bit of space in the cave was occupied: Poppa Bear lay on one side, looking entitled as Momma Bear was just outside the entrance, using her mouth to pull out buckets of fried chicken from a large plastic bag, her expression slavish adoration, a little flustered, as Poppa Bear accepted a bucket without thanks; Barnes was perched in the middle of the cave, atop a stack of papers, amid a sea of his memos, notebooks, and varying jars of inks and water
19. slavish acceptance, but misunderstanding, of what his role is
20. Second: comes hereditary class structure: with slavish conformity, and ritualized closeness
21. The actual fact is that England is a land of the most slavish people on Earth
22. They were the worst slavish ass-kissing sycophants in history
23. He did not want their hypocritical, servile shows of false respect and slavish conformity
24. delusions and slavish lusts for money and materialism, then and only then will we end the ability of
25. Their slavish loyalty towards me, while it could often be annoying, was also heartwarming
26. But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration of it, if only her precious person were secure from injury! Now, was it not the depth of absurdity---of genuine idiocy, for that pitiful, slavish, mean-minded brach to dream that I could love her? Tell your master, Nelly, that I never, in all my life, met with such an abject thing as she is
27. At last, being a better man than his corruptors, he was drawn in both directions until he halted midway and led a life, not of vulgar and slavish passion, but of what he deemed moderate indulgence in various pleasures
28. She remembered the ball, remembered Vronsky and his face of slavish adoration, remembered all her conduct with him: there was nothing shameful
29. He saw it, and his face expressed that utter subjection, that slavish devotion, which had done so much to win her
30. People think he does it from slavish politeness, but it's simply because he is ashamed of his bird's nest; he is such a boastful fellow! Look, Nastasya, here are two specimens of headgear: this Palmerston"—he took from the corner Raskolnikov's old, battered hat, which for some unknown reason, he called a Palmerston—"or this jewel! Guess the price, Rodya, what do you suppose I paid for it, Nastasya!" he said, turning to her, seeing that Raskolnikov did not speak
31. But scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill: something we must believe in and do, and whatever that something may be called, it is virtually our own judgment, even when it seems like the most slavish reliance on another
32. I had had brothers myself, and it was no revelation to me that little girls could be slavish idolaters of little boys
33. She was kindly without being obsequious, willing to please without seeming slavish, and she saw the Humour in her Fate as well as the undeserv’d Woe
34. Now that I had given her Notice, she immediately became obsequious and slavish
35. But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration of it, if only her precious person were secure from injury! Now, was it not the depth of absurdity—of genuine idiotcy, for that pitiful, slavish, mean-minded brach to dream that I could love her? Tell your master, Nelly, that I never, in all my life, met with such an abject thing as she is
36. Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of inferiority: on the contrary, I just said—
37. Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?
38. ' You are a woman of low feelings,' she said, ' brought up in the old slavish ideas
39. Bearing the Cross, in slavish dress,
40. Besides he fawned upon Pyotr Stepanovitch in a slavish way, and he, in his turn, had obtained by this time a strange and unaccountable influence over Yulia Mihailovna
41. I had a sickly dread, too, of being ridiculous, and so had a slavish passion for the conventional in everything external
42. It looks as though it seemed to them that there was not even any choice, and that there was but the one path of slavish obedience
43. And so, on the one hand, Christians by name, who profess liberty, equality, and fraternity, are side by side with that prepared in the name of liberty for the most slavish and degraded submission, in the name of equality for the most glaring and senseless divisions of men by external signs alone into superiors and inferiors, their allies and their enemies, and in the name of fraternity for the murder of these brothers
44. It seems to them as if there were no choice, but only the one necessity of slavish submission
45. Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most unquestionable significance is for the rulers nothing but a tool for attaining their ambitious and selfish ends, and for the ruled a renunciation of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish submission to those who are in power
46. So, then, we have on one side men calling themselves Christians, and professing the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, and along with that ready, in the name of liberty, to submit to the most slavish degradation; in the name of equality, to accept the crudest, most senseless division of men by externals merely into higher and lower classes, allies and enemies; and, in the name of fraternity, ready to murder their brothers
47. Nor will I detain the House by relating the story of Captain Bradley, commander of the Cambrian, who in the face of the city of New York, and in contempt of the civil authority of the United States, dragged your citizens into slavish captivity
48. War would introduce a slavish subordination among the people
49. In this mode our citizens are wantonly snatched from their country and their families; deprived of their liberty, and doomed to an ignominious and slavish bondage; compelled to fight the battles of a foreign country, and often to perish in them
50. In this mode our citizens were wantonly snatched from their own country and their families; deprived of their liberty, and doomed to an ignominious and slavish bondage; compelled to fight the battles of a foreign country, and often to perish in them