Además de ser un centro comercial, es el lugar donde se hallan excelentes institutos de educación.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
El tío Paciencia emprendió el camino del cielo muy contento con la esperanza de gozar eternamente de la gloria, de vivir en el mundo donde todos los hombres eran iguales, de encontrar allí a sus queridos amigos
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
During the six years which had passed since Noirtier first fell into this sad state, Valentine’s powers of invention had been too often put to the test not to render her expert in devising expedients for gaining a knowledge of his wishes, and the constant practice had so perfected her in the art that she guessed the old man’s meaning as quickly as if he himself had been able to seek for what he wanted.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
' In the interval between morning and evening service, he endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotional exercises; and as he has mentioned in his Prayers and Meditations, gave me Les Pensees de Paschal, that I might not interrupt him.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell
Has etiam Instantias Decisorias et
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer
Such a proposition, should it ever be made, and it has been already more than once hinted at in Parliament, would discover such a disposition to perfidiousness, and such disregard of honor and morals, as would add the finishing vice to national corruption.—I do not mention this to put America on the watch, but to put England on her guard, that she do not, in the looseness of her heart, envelop in disgrace every fragment of reputation."—Thus
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine
In the interval between morning and evening service, he endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotional exercises; and as he has mentioned in his Prayers and Meditations [1153], gave me ' Les Pensées de Paschal ', that I might not interrupt him.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by James Boswell
But this in no way lessened the care he exercised in doing every thing in his power to render the expedition a success.
— from The History of Korea (vol. 2 of 2) by Homer B. (Homer Bezaleel) Hulbert
He differs, however, from what is perhaps the dominant school of biology to-day, in holding that the higher forms of organic life are, as he expresses it, "directly equilibrated" with their surroundings through the inheritance of physical features resulting from effort and habit.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1899 Volume LIV, No. 6, April 1899 by Various
As is usual, when it had expended its destructive energy, the recoveries became more frequent.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill
When temptation comes near you, when you feel in your heart the sinful lust, remember: God is with me, He sees and hears everything I do, even the innermost thoughts of my heart.
— from Lessons in the Small Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther For the Senior Department of Lutheran Sunday-Schools and for General Use by George Mezger
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