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Krishna has drawn Radha to him and is caressing her cheek while friends of Radha gossip in the courtyard.
— from The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by W. G. (William George) Archer
To the west and south stretched great irrigated fields of ripening grain, in the midst of which were many shadufs, with their patient buffaloes at the interminable work of drawing water from the clay wells.
— from Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen, in his person and property, and in their management.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson
I am told, a leading feature of republican governments is to be extremely jealous of the liberty of the press, and that of France is, in this respect, truly republican.—Adieu.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs
Provided; as he unquestionably was at that moment, with a more energetic representative than any who had before exercised the functions of royal governor in the provinces, he was still disposed to harass, to doubt, and to interfere.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley
Sandys was a statesman of advanced ideas, creative, liberal, and original, fitted to be the founder of representative government in the English colonies.
— from The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People by Edward Eggleston
In Obadiah, we find a fulness of remarkable glances into the future compressed within a narrow space.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
"The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen, in his person and property, and in their management.
— from Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) by Harriet Martineau
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