In my opinion, it is by a fervent, accepted development of comradeship, the beautiful and sane affection of man for man, latent in all the young fellows, north and south, east and west—it is by this, I say, and by what goes directly and indirectly along with it, that the United States of the future, (I cannot too often repeat,) are to be most effectually welded together, intercalated, anneal'd into a living union.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
From the end of the first to the beginning of the second Carthaginian war, the armies of Carthage were continually in the field, and employed under three great generals, who succeeded one another in the command; Amilcar, his son-in-law Asdrubal, and his son Annibal: first in chastising their own rebellious slaves, afterwards in subduing the revolted nations of Africa; and lastly, in conquering the great kingdom of Spain.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
"And the most fun I can think of right this minute is to get some sleep," Dave replied.
— from The Auto Boys' Quest by James A. (James Andrew) Braden
"That's right; for I cannot too often repeat it to you,—this is a principle here, a principle upon which I cannot compromise."
— from A Chambermaid's Diary by Octave Mirbeau
In the early Sugar Trust case, the New York Supreme Court decided that combinations to sell through a common agent, thereby, of course, fixing the price, with other common devices for controlling the market and preventing competition, were illegal at the common law; and also that a corporation which, in order to bring about such a combination, put all its stock in the hands of trustees or a holding company, thereby forfeited its charter, the only result of which decision was to drive the Sugar Trust from its New York charters to a legal organization in the State of New Jersey.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson
For the fact is conceded, that one race or the other must be exterminated.
— from The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper
We must now return to those other possible relations which we left when [ 5 ] we selected for immediate consideration that one right relation which we call duty.
— from Practical Ethics by William De Witt Hyde
At the same time," he ended dryly, "I will own that I'm dead stuck on little Jakie, and I'd ruther ride for the Flying U and eat Jakie's grub than any other fate I can think of right now.
— from The Happy Family by B. M. Bower
Again, in oogamous reproduction, while in general only one oosphere is differentiated in the oogonium, in Sphaeroplea several oospheres arise in each oogonium; and while the oospheres usually contract away from the oogonial wall, acquiring for themselves a new cell-wall after fertilization, in Coleochaete the oosphere remains throughout in contact with the oogonial wall.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Faulkner's rejoinder was that the difference was a trifling one, "for the fact is conceded that one race or the other must be exterminated.
— from The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy
Why did they not ask the Treasury Bench with what face it could talk of retrenchment and economy, while it augmented the weight by which the country was borne down?
— from Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 2 (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Anne, Lady
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