Even when, in 1814, his Senators were offering the crown of France to the heir of the Bourbons, they expressly stipulated that the Legion of Honour should not be abolished: it has survived all the shocks of French history, even the Vulgarizing associations of the Second Empire.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
It is "the disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world," and its more ultimate purpose is "to keep man from a self-satisfaction which is retarding and Vulgarizing, to lead him towards perfection."
"Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold"
Matthew Arnold
Tom Brown and Mr. Knowles' "King Arthur" may not do for you what they did for me; "Sesame and Lilies," "Past and Present," Emerson's "Twenty Essays" may be superseded, though I can hardly believe it; but see to it that you find and read their true successors, carry out Dr. Abbott's advice to his boys-to "read half a dozen de-Vulgarizing books before leaving school."
"Stray Thoughts for Girls"
Lucy H. M. Soulsby