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It must be a longer period than the longest life “in the world’s hale and undegenerate days,” that will make me forget so dear a friend as Mr. Sloan.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

A homogeneous and vigorous people may manage their own affairs under a popular constitution so long as their personal characters remain undegenerate.

From Caesar: a Sketch by Froude, James Anthony

It must be a longer period than the longest life "in the world's hale and undegenerate days," that will make me forget so dear a friend as Mr. Sloan.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Men whose undegenerate spirit Has been proved on field and flood, By the foes you 've fought uncounted, By the glorious deeds ye 've done, Trophies captured, breaches mounted, Navies conquer'd, kingdoms won.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Of undegenerate Rome, her liberty: "La liberté leur était donc un trésor qu'ils préferoient à toutes les richesses de l'univers."

From Principles of Freedom by MacSwiney, Terence J. (Terence Joseph)