" It is in his plea for international copyright where the familiar lines occur: "In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing, The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing."
— from The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature by Cleland Boyd McAfee
Cavendish obtained nitrogen from air by using nitric oxide to remove the oxygen, and found that air consists of about seventy-nine per cent nitrogen and about twenty-one per cent oxygen.
— from An Introduction to the History of Science by Walter Libby
I wouldna wonder but one might catch the scarlet fever gin he werena carefu’, so I just took a change of names for a bit while.”
— from A Daughter of Raasay: A Tale of the '45 by William MacLeod Raine
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. —LOWELL.
— from Manners and Conduct in School and Out by Anonymous
Below the semi-domes there are a couple of narrow fillets, and below the sunk band of the eastern compartment a single wide fillet.
— from Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture by Gertrude Lowthian Bell
[193] It is in his plea for international copyright where the familiar lines occur: "In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing, The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing."
— from The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and Its Influence on Life and Literature by Cleland Boyd McAfee
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