{pg 49} Courage, or the degree of life, is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Note 50 ( return ) [ See the death of Lothaire in Agathias (l. ii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

See p. 17 .] 2. (1) A logician, who eats pork-chops for supper, will probably lose money; (2) A gambler, whose appetite is not ravenous, will probably lose money; (3) A man who is depressed, having lost money and being likely to lose more, always rises at 5 a.m.; (4) A man, who neither gambles nor eats pork-chops for supper, is sure to have a ravenous appetite; (5) A lively man, who goes to bed before 4 a.m., had better take to cab-driving; (6) A man with a ravenous appetite, who has not lost money and does not rise at 5 a.m., always eats pork-chops for supper; (7) A logician, who is in danger of losing money, had better take to cab-driving; (8) An earnest gambler, who is depressed though he has not lost money, is in no danger of losing any; (9) A man, who does not gamble, and whose appetite is not ravenous, is always lively; pg188 (10) A lively logician, who is really in earnest, is in no danger of losing money; (11) A man with a ravenous appetite has no need to take to cab-driving, if he is really in earnest; (12) A gambler, who is depressed though in no danger of losing money, sits up till 4 a.m. (13) A man, who has lost money and does not eat pork-chops for supper, had better take to cab-driving, unless he gets up at 5 a.m. (14) A gambler, who goes to bed before 4 a.m., need not take to cab-driving, unless he has a ravenous appetite; (15) A man with a ravenous appetite, who is depressed though in no danger of losing, is a gambler.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Is it not evident that a degree of local information and preparatory labor would be found in the several volumes of their proceedings, which would very much shorten the labors of the general legislature, and render a much smaller number of members sufficient for it?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Frequently one meets with people to whom the destruction of life is a pleasure.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In order to give clearness to his conception of the State, Plato proceeds to trace the first principles of mutual need and of xxxvi division of labour in an imaginary community of four or five citizens.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The same practice has been followed in the seals of the Duchy of Lancaster, inasmuch as on the obverse of the seal of George IV.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Now self-murder is a crime most remote from the common nature of all animals, and an instance of impiety against God our Creator; nor indeed is there any animal that dies by its own contrivance, or by its own means, for the desire of life is a law engraven in them all; on which account we deem those that openly take it away from us to be our enemies, and those that do it by treachery are punished for so doing.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

In all probability, the proprietors of this, and other public gardens of inferior note, in the skirts of the metropolis, are, in some shape, connected with the faculty of physic, and the company of undertakers; for, considering that eagerness in the pursuit of what is called pleasure, which now predominates through every rank and denomination of life, I am persuaded that more gouts, rheumatisms, catarrhs, and consumptions are caught in these nocturnal pastimes, sub dio, than from all the risques and accidents to which a life of toil and danger is exposed.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I meant to have thanked you in an autograph, but there has been a sudden change in the atmosphere, which is dark, heavy and wet, and when there is a defect of light I am almost constrained to dictate my letters to my factotum .
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

This reaction of conscience against his disobedience of law is as necessary, and unavoidable, as the action of his eyelids under the blaze of noon, and is worthy neither of praise nor blame, so far as he is concerned.
— from Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

A Diary of Life in Ashanti, 1895.
— from The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro by Reginald Wyon

For though the strength of the whole number was far more than a match for his, the strength of each individual was far inferior; and if the mass of them were scarcely armed, and the few who had arms were far inferior to him, the result would be that after some had fallen the rest would take to flight; and the destruction of life in a retreat was always enormous.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

He has made necessary among mankind a division of labor, intellectual and moral.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

===================================================================== @Portugal Portugal Introduction Background: Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil as a colony.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

" "In whatever dominion or land I am, my power accompanies me," said he, "and it is only against human might and human weapon that I ensure your life; on that will I keep an eye, and on that you may depend.
— from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

p. 225), shows that Mars was a deity of late invention, and not one of the traditionary deities.
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron

They have to do with political development, the relations of capital and labor, invention, science, literature, production, commerce, and a dozen other life interests, all of which will be considered in this work.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris