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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.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

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.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

The privilege of barbarizing the King’s English is assumed by all ranks and conditions of men.

Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 1. Character of the New Nation 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

The Congress of Women: Held in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893, With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses 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

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I 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.

The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement 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.

Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M. 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

The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 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

Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race. 1848

Smyrna for some years; an original, who had taken upon himself the mission of re-barbarizing the East.

The Cross of Berny Jules Sandeau 1847