The shrine is kept up, of course, by the Chinese, and very few foreigners in China even know of the incident.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey
The general indefinite term, thought, which we have here employed, is the right one and the most appropriate in this place, for it comprises every kind of perceiving and understanding, of judging and comprehending, of cognition and recognition, and serves to indicate the several elements and relations or differing degrees of knowledge, and of that intuitive inward certainty which is combined and associated with it.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel
for you are my father, the only father I can ever know,—and so kind and good!'
— from Castle Nowhere by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Moreover, at suspected places, such as Florence, Turin, and Paris, I shall be more attentive to your draughts, and such as exceed a proper and handsome expense will not be answered; for I can easily know whether you game or not without being told.
— from Letters to His Son, 1749 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of
No one but he who has felt it can ever know the intense longing with which the arrival of Saturday was awaited that a new book might be had.
— from Famous Givers and Their Gifts by Sarah Knowles Bolton
The four Indian canoemen evidently keenly alive to the desirability of placing distance between themselves and MacNair's retainers, bent to their paddles with a unanimity of purpose that fairly lifted the big canoe through the water and sent the white foam curling from its bow in tiny ripples of protest.
— from The Gun-Brand by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
Still in my heart thy form I cherish; Every kind thought, like a bird, flies to thee;
— from Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 5 A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs by Various
As a school of posture for art, its varieties are extremely manifold and by no means developed, for it contains every kind of emphasis of every part and calls out every muscle group and attitude of the human body; hence its training is most generic and least specialized, and victories have been won by very many kinds of excellence.
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall
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