"Subserve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... policy. He sought the hand of Mary, the newly crowned Queen of England, and married her. By this step lie hoped and expected to extinguish dissent in England as he had done in his own dominions, to gradually usurp the government, and to make English naval supremacy subserve ...
— Ten Great Events in History • James Johonnot
... various fields of experience, to effect an adjustment between man's competing desires, and between man and his environment. If instincts were left each to its own free course, they would all be frustrated; if man did not learn reflectively to control his environment, and to make it subserve his own ends, he would be a helpless pygmy soon obliterated by the incomparably ...
— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman
... little heart and great pride, and made her God subserve her passions, as Dardennes made liberty ...
— Monsieur de Camors, Complete • Octave Feuillet
... that his practice is to conform to his theory. I feel that you will pardon, nay, that you will commend me for the plainness with which I impart such knowledge as I may possess. It will be to me the dearest happiness, if I can subserve in any way, consistently with my duty to Rome, the interests of Palmyra ...
— Zenobia - or, The Fall of Palmyra • William Ware
... higher order of mammalia; he is a worshiper of God and capable of practicing his presence. And from this base our instruction to children, drawn from the anatomical and functional life of plants and animals, must always subserve the moral, the spiritual superiority of man and the ...
— The Social Emergency - Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals • Various
... is but an illustration of the great principle that by God's mercy sin when it is hated and pardoned may be made to subserve our highest joys. ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren
... for the purpose of getting rid of the three offensive members of the cabinet; that "their dismission had been stipulated for, and the reason was that Van Buren, having discovered that the three members of the cabinet (afterwards ejected) disdained to become tools to subserve his ambitious aspirings, had determined to leave them as little power to defeat his machinations as possible; and that he had become latterly almost the sole confidant and ...
— Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. • Josiah Quincy
... organs in continuous series, and it comes out very clearly during this proceeding "that the physiological value of an organ is by no means constant throughout the different form-states of the organ, that an organ, through the mere modification of its anatomical relations, can subserve very different functions. Exclusive regard for their physiological functions would place morphologically related organs in different categories. From this it follows that in comparative anatomy we should never in the first place ...
— Form and Function - A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology • E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell |
