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Dr. Waagen was of opinion that the academic system gave an artificial elevation to mediocrity; that it deadened natural talent, and introduced into the freedom of art an unsalutary degree of authority and interference.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton

It may be no unsalutary lesson to the Christian world, that this silent, this unavoidable, perhaps, yet fatal change shall have been drawn by an impartial, or even an hostile hand.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart

But the introduction of the Jesuits brought an unsalutary change.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various

This was a measure of unnecessary severity towards non-combatants, and had an unsalutary effect.

From From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of The Civil War in America by Longstreet, James

It furnished a strong, and perhaps not an unsalutary contrast, to the terrors which had preceded, and the dreadful scenes that awaited me.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William