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good is the true and
Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring.
— 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.

Giffards in troublous times as
Presently they reached Brewood Forest, where there stood two old hunting-lodges, built by the Giffards in troublous times as hiding-places for proscribed Papists.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

grows in the telling and
No one will confess the errors he was taught in his school days No one can show a dead man a good time One could do a man no graver injury than to call him a dancer Platitudes by which anguished minds are recalled to sanity Priests, animated by an hypocritical mania for prophecy Propensity of pouring one’s personal troubles into another’s ear Putting as good a face upon the matter as I could Religions responsible for the most abominable actions Remarkable resemblance to each other are the Bible and Homer Rumor but grows in the telling and strives to embellish Russia there is a sect called the skoptzi See or hear nothing at all of the affairs of every-day life
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

greatest importance that the appointments
Since, therefore, unless in case of personal culpability, there is no way of getting rid of them except by quartering them on the public as pensioners, it is of the greatest importance that the appointments should be well made in the first instance; and it remains to be considered by what mode of appointment this purpose can best be attained.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

gave it to Thales and
Accordingly they gave it to Thales, and he gave it to some one, who again handed it over to another, till it came to Solon.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

gods is that they are
And that the perfect Happiness must be a kind of Contemplative Working may appear also from the following consideration: our conception of the gods is that they are above all blessed and happy: now what kind of Moral actions are we to attribute to them?
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

goes into the temple and
6, when Herod goes into the temple, and makes a speech in it to the people, but that could only be into the court of Israel, whither the people could come to hear him.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

general introduction to the allegories
[98] Here must have been the general introduction to the allegories, wherein Philo declared his purpose and his method of exposition.
— from Philo-Judæus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich

good in this town and
I am quite sure that movement has been doing good in this town, and is doing good still.
— from True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Theodore P. Wilson

Germans in their trenches and
When I stood on the parapet that day looking over at the Germans in their trenches, and thought how two great nations were held back for a time in their fierce struggle for supremacy, by their devotion to a little Child born in a stable in Bethlehem two thousand years before, I felt that there was still promise of a regenerated world.
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott

gave it to the Assembly
Capt. Craskell, the banished superintendent, gave it to the Assembly as his opinion, that the whole slave population of the island was in sympathy with the Maroons, and would soon be beyond control.
— from Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

great is to the advantage
It seems that the difference, whether small or great, is to the advantage of the semicircle; for he does not promise that the elliptical arch, with all the convexity that his imagination can confer, will stand without cramps of iron, and melted lead, and large stones, and a very thick arch; assistances which the semicircle does not require, and which can be yet less required by a semi-ellipsis, which is, in all respects, superiour in strength.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

good instruments they try almost
The cause for this assertion will have to be found, and for the disbeliever there is no other ground in the advantages I have gained by my studies, which to them seem impossible; and as the Italian violins are generally acknowledged the only good instruments, they try almost anything to oppose what has proven [73] itself so gloriously, rather than acknowledge it as a fact.
— from George Gemünder's Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General by George Gemünder

gloried in this translation as
The Jews even of Palestine at first gloried in this translation, as Philo testifies; but it being employed by the Christians against them, they began, soon after the beginning of the second century, to condemn it, alleging that it was not always conformable to the Hebrew original.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

given in the townships and
In this part of the Union the impulsion of political activity was given in the townships; and it may almost be said that each of them originally formed an independent nation.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

generation in those things about
A most agreeable man, and perhaps the wisest man in his generation in those things about which it would be as well not to know anything.
— from The Golden House by Charles Dudley Warner


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