And now, gentlemen, I repeat, excuse me, but on that account only, and--on guard!”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
It is by examining what actually takes place in the Union, and not by comparing the Union with France, that we may discover whether the American Government is really economical.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville
(2) Authorities do not agree in their opinions as to the pathological and psychological processes with which we are directly concerned; they are quite uncertain how to explain the human brain in all its more subtle functions, or the sympathetic nervous system and nervous states generally, in relation especially to human consciousness under various abnormal but not diseased conditions of the organism; and they do not propose any conclusions as final, but only as very weakly tentative, though some of these are in favour of a psycho-physical view of man in which there is a close approach to the present more advanced position of psychical research.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz
But, just because the assistant evidently did not want him to go in, Rostóv entered the soldiers’ ward.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Wild, countless hills I could survey, And countless flocks as wild as they; But other scenes did charms display, That better please, Where polish'd manners dwell with Gray, In rural ease.^9 Where Cessnock pours with gurgling sound;^10
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
For the evil, which is here called the lesser, is really good, and the lesser good is really evil, wherefore we may seek the former and shun the latter.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
"Yes!" said I. "And to tell you the truth, guardian, I rather expected it."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
“The ‘good glass,’ I knew, could have reference to nothing but a telescope; for the word ‘glass’ is rarely employed in any other sense by seamen.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe
He got it right enough, for he's left me alone from that day to this."
— from A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire by J. Arthur (Joseph Arthur) Gibbs
"'Oh, you will get it right enough," replied Monsieur (but he was not Monsieur at all, only the name suited him); 'but for the present I can only offer you my card;' and then he held it out with such a pleasant smile that it might have softened half-a-dozen conductors.
— from Mollie's Prince: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Our globe is round; everything is B1841linked to everything else.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac
Society, government, is rapidly encroaching upon private property through the powers of taxation, of police supervision, and all manner of constitutional instrumentalities.
— from Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel Peter Orth
You may imagine that during my long residence in this house I had not wanted opportunities of gathering information respecting everything that concerned the deceased.
— from The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny by Friedrich Schiller
Paul describes in a very definite way the different degrees of glory in the resurrection, which vindicates the justice of God in rewarding every man according to his works, and establishing the free agency of man by holding him personally accountable for every act of his life.
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley
“I’ve got it, right enough.”
— from The Trail to Yesterday by Charles Alden Seltzer
You do me good, I repay, etc,' I think there was a previous letter which Parrish did see."
— from The Master Detective: Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles by Percy James Brebner
Black Action Party ; Bougainville Unity Alliance or BUA ; Christian Democratic Party ; Hausman Party ; League for National Advancement or LNA ; Liberal Party ; Melanesian Alliance or MA ; Melanesian Labor Party ; Milne Bay Party ; Movement for Greater Autonomy ; National Alliance or NA ; National Party or NP ; Papua New Guinea First Party (includes People's National Congress or PNC and Christian Country Party ); Papua New Guinea United Party or Pangu Pati ; People's Action Party or PAP [Ted DIRO]; People's Democratic Movement or PDM ; People's National Alliance ; People's Progress Party or PPP [Michael NALI]; People's Resources Awareness Party ; People's Solidarity Party ; People's Unity Party or PUP [Alfred KAIABE]; United Party or UP ; United Resource Party International organization participation: ACP, APEC, AsDB, ASEAN (observer), C, CP, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO (correspondent), ITU, NAM, OPCW, Sparteca, SPC, SPF, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTrO Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Nagora Y. BOGAN chancery: 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036 telephone: (202) 745-3680 FAX: (202) 745-3679 Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Arma Jane KARAER embassy: Douglas Street, Port Moresby mailing address: P. O. Box 1492, Port Moresby telephone: 321-1455 FAX: 321-3423 Flag description: divided diagonally from upper hoist-side corner; the upper triangle is red with a soaring yellow bird of paradise centered; the lower triangle is black with five white five-pointed stars of the Southern Cross constellation centered @Papua New Guinea:Economy Economy - overview: Papua New Guinea is richly endowed with natural resources, but exploitation has been hampered by the rugged terrain and the high cost of developing infrastructure.
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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