In such cases, each, confiding in its strength, and feeling itself capable of maintaining an equal struggle with any of the others, is unwilling to be merged in it; each cultivates with party obstinacy its distinctive peculiarities; obsolete customs, and even declining languages, are revived, to deepen the separation; each deems itself tyrannized over if any authority is exercised within itself by functionaries of a rival race; and whatever is given to one of the conflicting nationalities is considered to be taken from all the rest.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

No classification, no selection and arrangement of facts, which is consciously worked out for purely abstract ends, can ever compare in solidity or effectiveness with that knit under the stress of an occupation; in comparison the former sort is formal, superficial, and cold.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

When he compared the public crimes of this minister--startling crimes, European crimes, if so we may say--with the private and unknown crimes with which Milady had charged him, Felton found that the more culpable of the two men which formed the character of Buckingham was the one of whom the public knew not the life.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

I used to skin out of the ole Sunday School at Catawba every chance I got, but same time, I wouldn't be where I am to-day, maybe, if it hadn't been for its training in—in moral power.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

And besides, it is natural for a vulgar man to be violently agitated by the sight of opposition in any form; and in this case envy comes in as the secret cause of his hostility.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

[disclose inadvertently or reluctantly] let slip, blurt out, spill the beans, unburden oneself of, let off one's chest; disclose &c. 529. show cause; explain &c. (interpret) 522.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The graduate who has not acquired this keen and sure sense of honor, this thing that stamps the gentleman, misses the best thing that a college education can impart.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

N. wealth, riches, fortune, handsome fortune, opulence, affluence; good circumstances, easy circumstances; independence; competence &c. (sufficiency) 639; solvency. provision, livelihood, maintenance; alimony, dowry; means, resources, substance; property &c. 780; command of money. income &c. 810; capital, money; round sum &c. (treasure) 800; mint of money, mine of wealth, El Dorado[Sp], bonanza, Pacatolus, Golconda, Potosi.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Cum Helvêtiî bellô clârissimî essent, Caesar iter per prôvinciam dare recûsâvit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Continuous croppin' 'e call it, but my maister say 'better leave things as they be and not make work when there's no need for it.'
— from Wastralls: A Novel by C. A. (Catharine Amy) Dawson Scott

Indonesia Supreme Court or Mahkamah Agung is the final court of appeal but does not have the power of judicial review (justices are appointed by the president from a list of candidates selected by the legislature); in March 2004 the Supreme Court assumed administrative and financial responsibility for the lower court system from the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights; Constitutional Court or Mahkamah Konstitusi (invested by the president on 16 August 2003) has the power of judicial review, jurisdiction over the results of a general election, and reviews actions to dismiss a president from office; Labor Court under supervision of Supreme Court began functioning in January 2006; the Anti-Corruption Court has jurisdiction over corruption cases brought by the independent Corruption Eradication Commission; in 2006, the Constitutional Court declared the mechanism by which the Anti-Corruption Court was established unconstitutional and gave the parliament until the end of 2009 to pass Anti-Corruption Court legislation Iran The Supreme Court (Qeveh Qazaieh) and the four-member High Council of the Judiciary have a single head and overlapping responsibilities; together they supervise the enforcement of all laws and establish judicial and legal policies; lower courts include a special clerical court, a revolutionary court, and
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I have, for many years, advocated this measure, which is to be found in most Socialist programmes, and which the Socialists of other countries have to a considerable extent carried into practical effect.
— from Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by John Spargo

Scepticism.—To oppose this we can enhance courage, insight, hardness, independence, and the feeling of responsibility; we can also subtilise and learn to forestall the delicacy of the scales, so that favourable accidents may be enlisted on our side.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Now take up the pack, and from the BOTTOM take the first four cards; handing the remainder to a party, sitting before you, saying—'I shall now call every card in succession from the top of the pack in your hand.
— from The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) by Andrew Steinmetz

Irrigated land: NA sq km Natural hazards: active volcanism on Tristan da Cunha Environment - current issues: NA Geography - note: harbors at least 40 species of plants unknown anywhere else in the world; Ascension is a breeding ground for sea turtles and sooty terns Saint Helena People Population: 7,266 (July 2001 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But Cimon, (who refused to be called Galesus, remembering that Iphigenia 247 had called him by the former name,) seeking to put an honourable term to his desire, once and again caused essay Cipseus, Iphigenia's father, so he should give him his daughter to wife; but Cipseus still answered that he had promised her to Pasimondas, a young nobleman of Rhodes, to whom he had no mind to fail of his word.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He did his best to forget it, but he looked so guilty when Captain Perez returned at supper time that that individual suspected something, made his friend confess, and, a little later when Captain Eri came in, the envelope, bearing many thumb-prints, was propped up against the sugar bowl in the middle of the table.
— from Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Platt, Thomas C., early career, iii. 363 ; character and ability, 364 ; ch'm.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

chapter Early charitable institutions were under a definite rule, either that of the diocesan bishop or of the monastic order with which they were in touch.
— from The Mediæval Hospitals of England by Rotha Mary Clay