To say the truth, perfect beauty in both sexes is a more irresistible object than it is generally thought; for, notwithstanding some of us are contented with more homely lots, and learn by rote (as children to repeat what gives them no idea) to despise outside, and to value more solid charms; yet I have always observed, at the approach of consummate beauty, that these more solid charms only shine with that kind of lustre which the stars have after the rising of the sun. — from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
and courage tis
For these warlike movements, that so ravish us with their astounding noise and horror, this rattle of guns, drums, and cries, Fulgur ibi ad coelum se tollit, totaque circum re renidescit tellus, subterque virm vi Excitur pedibus sonitus, clamoreque montes Icti rejectant voces ad sidera mundi; “When burnish’d arms to heaven dart their rays, And many a steely beam i’ th’ sunlight plays, When trampled is the earth by horse and man, Until the very centre groans again, And that the rocks, struck by the various cries, Reverberate the sound unto the skies;” in the dreadful embattling of so many thousands of armed men, and so great fury, ardour, and courage, ‘tis pleasant to consider by what idle occasions they are excited, and by how light ones appeased:— Paridis propter narratur amorem — from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
And therefore that which the Greeks call ἀπάθεια, and what the Latins would call, if their language would allow them, "impassibilitas," if it be taken to mean an impassibility of spirit and not of body, or, in other words, a freedom from those emotions which are contrary to reason and disturb the mind, then it is obviously a good and most desirable quality, but it is not one which is attainable in this life. — from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
are considered the
[338] While [Pg 123] declaring this interpretation inexact, Strehlow, in his turn, proposes another which does not differ materially from the other: he claims that the churinga are considered the image of the ancestor's body, or the body itself. — from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
a character to
Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour. But was their understanding once emancipated from the slavery to which the pride and sensuality of man and their short sighted desire, like that of dominion in tyrants, of present sway, has subjected them, we should probably read of their weaknesses with surprise. — from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft
a chaste though
I had believed in the best parlor as a most elegant saloon; I had believed in the front door, as a mysterious portal of the Temple of State whose solemn opening was attended with a sacrifice of roast fowls; I had believed in the kitchen as a chaste though not magnificent apartment; I had believed in the forge as the glowing road to manhood and independence. — from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The faithful observe fasts, offer sacrifice for the dead, practise confession, use holy water, honour relics, make processions; they have monasteries and convents, whose inmates take vows of poverty and chastity; they flagellate themselves, have priests and bishops—in fact, they carry out the whole system of Catholicism, and have done so, since centuries before Christ, so that a Roman Catholic priest, on his first mission among them, exclaimed that the Devil had invented an imitation of Christianity in order to deceive and ruin men. — from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant
The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser Author of "How to Find Happyland" With an Introduction by Margaret Beecher White The Illustrations by William T. Van Dresser Paul Elder and Company San Francisco and New York Copyright, 1908 by Paul Elder and Company TO WILLIAM T. VAN DRESSER — from The Little Brown Hen Hears the Song of the Nightingale & The Golden Harvest by Jasmine Stone Van Dresser
and covering the
The Nootka cuisine furnished food in four styles; namely, boiled—the mode par excellence, applicable to every variety of food, and effected, as by the Haidahs, by hot stones in wooden vessels; steamed—of rarer use, applied mostly to heads, tails, and fins, by pouring water over them on a bed of hot stones, and covering the whole tightly with mats; roasted—rarely, in the case of some smaller fish and clams; and raw—fish-spawn and most other kinds of food, when conveniences for cooking were not at hand. — from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft
assuredly confident therein
A great awe crept on me of the eye which had been upon me when I had thought myself buried out of sight, and of the hand which had brought me help when I was most helpless; and I felt how utterly undeserved was the kindness of God, and at the same time assuredly confident therein. — from The MS. in a Red Box by John A. (John Arthur) Hamilton
a cursed transgressor
I say, if, when thou art a hearing, there is but one vain thought, or in praying, but one vain thought, or in any other thing whatsoever, let it be civil or spiritual, one vain thought once in all thy lifetime will cause the law to take such hold on it, that for that one thing it doth even set open all the floodgates of God's wrath against thee, and irrecoverably by that covenant it doth bring eternal vengeance upon thee; so that, I say, look which ways thou wilt, and fail wherein thou wilt, and do it as seldom as ever thou canst, either in civil or spiritual things, as aforesaid—that is, either in the service of God, or in thy employments in the world, as thy trade or calling, either in buying or selling any way, in anything whatsoever; I say, if in any particular it find thee tardy, or in the least measure guilty, it calleth thee an offender, it accuseth thee to God, it puts a stop to all the promises thereof that are joined to the law, and leaves thee there as a cursed transgressor against God, and a destroyer of thy own soul. — from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan
and cumbrous the
English armour was, however, heavy and cumbrous, the inferior quality of the metal necessitating great thickness in order to secure efficiency; consequently those who could afford it procured the foreign article, where the superior temper gave a minimum of weight with the same or even better protection. — from British and Foreign Arms & Armour by Charles Henry Ashdown
all circumstances to
For doing this, I do not mean to derogate from the merit of the late American regular army, nor more particularly from that part of it which served to the Southward, of whose condition I can better judge than of that which served in the Middle and Eastern districts; as to them I am bold to say, they were not inferior, under all circumstances, to any army of equal numbers and equal opportunities which I have heard or read of in any time or in any place; but, then, it must also be remembered, whatever gentlemen may here say to the contrary, that the militia were as serviceable and as successful as any regulars whatever. — from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress
And Covenant The
The Solemn League And Covenant The Solemn League and Covenant Now brings a smile, now brings a tear; But sacred Freedom, too, was theirs: If thou'rt a slave, indulge thy sneer. — from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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