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The king, at times, amuses himself with the occupations of his subjects; and not yet deprav'd by false notions of empty state, he often paddles his own canoe, without considering such an employment derogatory to his dignity.
Letter 63 2009
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What may be done with these deprav'd & useless Persons I mean the mischievous Sort?
"Trolling is basically Internet eugenics... I want everyone off the Internet. Bloggers are filth. They need to be destroyed." Ann Althouse 2008
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Not one I dare answer; no, not even of those who daily make themselves in Fact, what those Animals are in Form; and by their repeated Excesses, become of so deprav'd a Nature, that they are scarce distinguishable (at least in their Actions) from those poor Brutes.
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They are like Oatmeal or Charcoal to the deprav'd Appetites of Girls; for by their Means we relish not the Diversions or Imbellishments of our Sex and
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The Agent or Womb may be in Fault several ways, as in the forming Faculty, which may be too strong or too weak, by which a deprav'd Figure is oftentimes produc'd, the ill Conformation of the place of Conception will cause a
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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Monsters are deprav'd Conceptions, defin'd by the Ancients to be excursions of Nature, and are always Vicious, either in Figure,
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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This recital put me out of all patience: -- I could not endure to see held up a picture, which, though out of the hands of a dauber, presented a true likeness of human nature in her most deprav'd state.
Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning
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But cannot still allow these Enormities to impeach the Profession, while they are so palpably owing to the deprav'd Taste of the Multitude.
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For, though deprav'd and sunk, she brought thee forth,
Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States William Henry Seward 1836
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This race deprav'd all crimes, all horrors stain'd;
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