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Daniel Hudson Burnham was born in Henderson, New York, on September 4, 1846, into a family devoted to Swedenborgian principles of obedience, self-subordination, and public service.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

As to cookery, the services of a chef with great powers of self-subordination seemed to be pointed at, a cordon-bleu ready to work in harness.

From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend

The good soldier has learnt the hardest lesson of all—the lesson of self-subordination to a higher and bigger personality.

From A Student in Arms Second Series by Hankey, Donald

Even in the fear, from which all ultimately sprang, there was a training in self-repression and self-subordination, which in a more civilised age must result in a valuable respect and obedience.

From The Religion of Ancient Rome by Bailey, Cyril

Conscience, then, is a witness respecting the identity of the will and the reason effected by the self-subordination of the will, or self, to the reason, as equal to, or representing, the will of God.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor