The art of the past is not to be copied in a servile spirit.

The servile spirit and conscious sense of bondage may not be felt at once.

Blows and revilings had been patiently endured, but he was actuated by no tame or servile spirit.

The Negro who would yield this right, deserves to be a slave; he has the servile spirit.

Believe me, a servile spirit recommends itself to no one, and in a lady is highly to be despised.

There might be some sort of servitude in France at that time, but assuredly there was no servile spirit among the people.

All wise men are excluded from the doctrine of their faith; they call to it only fools, and men of a servile spirit.

Now the truth is that some observe the law of God from a servile spirit, and only for fear of losing their souls.

Girolamo del Pacchia, Domenico Beccafumi, and Baldassare Peruzzi, though they owed much to the stimulus of his example, followed him in no servile spirit.