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judgment and action defined
the learned, Emerson on, 207 , 38 Journalist , Bismarck's definition of, 569 , 22; to whom he owes tribute, 498 , 34 Jove , prayer to, 380 , 56 Joy , amid misfortune, 22 , 24; and grief, in measure, 371 , 25; and pain, relative amount of, 471 , 36; and sorrow, 114 , 48; and weeping at, 162 , 5; as a teacher, 334 , 47; concealment of, 145 , 30; deep, awe in, 9 , 20; each present, absorbing, 75 , 22; effect of, as compared with that of grief, 136 , 34, 35; effect of excessive, on reason, 54 , 1; effect of imparting, 473 , 24; effect of, on mind, 133 , 32; effect of reflection on, 417 , 3; fellowship in, 460 , 32; great, after great change, 133 , 45; great, how earned, 133 , 36; how to find, 567 , 41; how we part with, 527 , 45; in Heaven, 532 , 5; man's, only in building up, 312 , 36; meaning of, 91 , 37; not in joys, 64 , 18; our face of, 529 , 40; profound, 357 , 53; seen only in a beautiful face, 379 , 37; shared, 20 , 7; 92 , 22; shared, joy doubled, 122 , 12; 385 , 28; sympathy with, 548 , 40; the greatest, 474 , 14; three parts pain, 28 , 18; true, 500 , 12, 13; true, a character of, 374 , 26; true, its origin, 499 , 35; unfelt, hard to feign, 154 , 32; vanishing, 519 , 25 Joyousness , essential to all useful effort, 77 , 37; mother of virtues, 64 , 19 Joys , concealment of, 149 , 36; connection of, with sorrows, 191 , 41; each condition its own, 82 , 55; highest, source of, 434 , 44; killed with love, 154 , 1; little and great, 251 , 21; not unmingled, 508 , 11; participation in another's, 152 , 2; purest, how obtained, 452 , 20; too high, not to be sought, 527 , 33; unfelt, hard to feign, 154 , 32 Judas , equal to Jesus at the ballot-box, 33 , 45; even a, among the apostles, 89 , 21 Judge , a lax, 310 , 27; a good and faithful, 31 , 60; an incompetent, 175 , 6; and jury, their functions, 4 , 50; and law, compared, 259 , 4; appeal to the heart of, 125 , 4; duties of, 214 , 30-33; duty of, 390 , 19; not, and reason why, 112 , 6; of others, how to, 527 , 31; others, how we, 523 , 33; our, he who made the heart, 552 , 14; who acquits a criminal, 214 , 1; who cannot punish, 7 , 43; whom no king can corrupt, 154 , 5 Judges , cobblers, 279 , 46; function of, 237 , 20; good, rare, 129 , 41; should have two ears, 376 , 31; the duty and practice of, 233 , 22; virtue required in, 327 , 58 Judging by the event, 493 , 25; defined, 493 , 26; men, golden rule of, 198 , 27; others, 41 , 4; well or evil, 551 , 2 Judgment , a, well tried, 387 , 52; and wit, 557 , 50; 558 , 6; and knowledge, 221 , 6, 7; as a mark of genius, 281 , 22; as the inner man, 405 , 47; at the helm, 544 , 30; contrasted with imagination, 223 , 34; contrasted with invention, 196 , 13; deceptive, 453 , 13; dependent upon feeling, 522 , 20; divine, 125 , 22, 32, 33; 127 , 47; fled to brutish beasts, 321 , 6; haste in, 187 , 36; how to form, 27 , 47; lack of, danger of, 94 , 17; last, necessary, 7 , 62, 63; last, responsibility at, 568 , 28; like a pair of scales, 437 , 21; limit of, 539 , 24; of others, 93 , 20; of posterity and contemporaries, contrasted, 47 , 7; of the wisest, 463 , 26; one's own, as standard, 267 , 4; of man and woman, 267 , 34; private, Dr. Stirling on, 357 , 9; private, no standard of right, 286 , 10; right, rule for, 109 , 9; self-satisfaction with, 93 , 10; spoiled by imagination, 398 , 22; the world's, 384 , 22; to be according to law, 214 , 24; to be charitable, 163 , 21; trade on, 57 , 41; vulgar, of a great man, 422 , 19; weakness of, 66 , 16; which we have here, 530 , 10; word of, above man, 114 , 13 Judgments , estimate of our, 489 , 13; to be weeded of opinion, 531 , 7; worthlessness of people's, 181 , 26 Juggling , as governing world, 204 , 7 Julian , his apostrophe to Christ, 514 , 3 Juliet , love of, for Romeo, 123 , 15 Jupiter , leniency of, 390 , 33 Jurists , bad Christians, 215 , 9 Jury , function of, 4 , 50 Just , cause, defence of, 215 , 42; condition of being, 523 , 5; for unjust, 17 , 38; man may need help, 89 , 32; man, rising again of, 109 , 4; path of, 447 , 11; perfectly, or according to ability, 490 , 33; the actions of, 335 , 12; the, the little of, 439 , 26; the only, stern, 151 , 18; the, without law, 117 , 43; thing, the strong, 455 , 35 Justice , a safe shield, 93 , 49; a source of wrong, 9 , 24; administrator of, qualities of, 152 , 28; ally of religion, 313 , 45; all-pervading, 431 , 36; and generosity combined, power of, 429 , 47; and just men, our love for, 525 , 32; and liberty, effect of separating, 547 , 29; as administered, 54 , 23; as bandaged, 22 , 28; at all risks, 105 , 26, 27; compared with severity and love, 285 , 13; defined, 113 , 12; 408 , 17; 432 , 27; 536 , 22; defined and described, 216 , 32, 34-38; discernment of, a revelation, 546 , 35; divine, instant, 125 , 31; enforced in Bible, 384 , 45; essence of, 425 , 42; exact, mercifulness of, 95 , 45; extreme, evil, 98 , 3; first, 27 , 25; foundation of temple of charity, 40 , 29; God's, unfailing, 128 , 9; guide, 241 , 23; how preserved, 245 , 46; how to be loved, 151 , 3; impartial, truest mercy, 207 , 6; in judgment and action, defined, 225 , 39; in the eyes of God, 491 , 42; lawyer's, versus God's, 161 , 40; love of, 222 , 12; no, without generosity, 202 , 36; not to be sold, 344 , 14; one hour in the execution of, 332 , 37; orbs of, steadfast, 484 , 29; respect for the gods, 68 , 53; second to religion, 297 , 39; secure, 553 , 14; simple, 164 , 26; springs of, 283 , 19; subtlety of, 225 , 40; the administration of, 402 , 45; the chamber of, 46 , 36; the foundation of, 117 , 36; {pg 611} the, in fair round belly, 437 , 23; the only fountain of, 63 , 46; the reward of, 496 , 13; those who doubt or deny, 483 , 19; to man, desire of all, 273 , 37; uncompromising, 169 , 8; unfailing, 340 , 19; virtue of, 460 , 39, 40; virtue of great souls, 66 , 30; virtue of the man, 121 , 50; Westminster, and God's, different, 268 , 50; when too severe, 406 , 39; with the gods, 390 , 12; without recompense, 271 , 30 Juvenal on his book, 365 , 22 K Keats' , epitaph, 155 , 13; rank as poet, 503 , 48 Keeping , and giving, rule in, 217 , 40; as a merit, 293 , 40 Kepler's highest wish, 288 , 2 Kernel , who would eat, 364 , 54 Kettle , rusty, not to be tinkered, 568 , 31 Key , a gold, power of, 6 , 37 Kin , a little more than, 8 , 46 Kind , only the, fair, 311 , 9; words, healing power of, 15 , 27 Kindly spirit, a, the human element, 332 , 16 Kindness , according to the Hitopadesa, 143 , 31; a sudden blaze of, 406 , 1; breaks no bones, 137 , 35; commended, 243 , 47; deeds of, how repaid, 440 , 22; defined, 536 , 23; exemplar in repairing, 189 , 29; how to recompense, 370 , 32; little deeds of, effect of, 251 , 9; prevalency of, 524 , 19; requiting, hard, 522 , 41; soon forgotten, 50 , 51; the joy of doing, 106 , 21; to grateful and to ungrateful, 132 , 40; to the good, not wasted, 31 , 35 Kindnesses , misplaced, 531 , 26; the best, 408 , 31 Kindred , love of, 107 , 38 King , a clown at heart, 33 , 46; a good, 6 , 44; a, the look of, 430 , 38; attribute of a, 553 , 23; an anointed, no deposing, 312 , 19; and kingdom, relation between, 375 , 39; contrast between, and a father, 86 , 10; every inch a, 25 , 34; 179 , 25; fitness of the name, 89 , 48; good, value of, 127 , 11; his limits, 80 , 55; morality of a, 443 , 5; not a creature of chance, 296 , 35; of England, legal mercy of, 438 , 35; Popinjay, 35 , 15; sayings about the, 375 , 40-45; 437 , 31-38; the (see Rex ); what most becomes, 301 , 17 Kingdom , a man's, 313 , 23; of God, condition of entering, 554 , 40; of God, in what it consists, 437 , 39 Kings , a world of, 172 , 11; and people, 534 , 38; and people, relation of, 447 , 23; anger of, 132 , 50; bands of, 15 , 46; contrasted with shepherds, 123 , 43; courts of, composition of, 22 , 1; divine right of, 451 , 36; divine right of, settled, 479 , 7; eyes and ears of, 286 , 2; heaven-chosen for us, 35 , 15; knowledge of, 493 , 31; last argument of, 505 , 1; not without good qualities, 38 , 36; not without their virtues, 190 , 2; only eloquence in behalf of, 233 , 15; only privates plus ceremony, 535 , 24; powerlessness of, to kill or cure, 162 , 30; the art of, 381 , 11; the curse of, 206 , 6; the, of modern thought, 437 , 37; the politeness of, 223 , 12; the true, 478 , 50; the wealth of, 335 , 34; their misdeeds and the penalty, 57 , 53; wise, and their councillors, 557 , 33 Kinship , spiritual, test of, 73 , 44 Kiss , echo of the sound of a, 454 , 28 Kissing , full of sanctity, 157 , 1 Kitchen , fundamental institution, 45 , 22; vital part of the house, 555 , 27 Kite , a carrion, 2 , 37 Knave , a crafty, 3 , 32; a, how to win, 45 , 1; an old, 15 , 57; and fool, 5 , 58; found out, 81 , 5; one thoroughly, 91 , 38; once, 331 , 21; wit needed by, 109 , 11 Knavery , and folly, excuse for, 102 , 29; baseness of, 200 , 17; defined and developed from cunning, 51 , 28; no, if no fools, 174 , 47 Knaves , first of nine order of, 428 , 27; honourable in the mass, 238 , 33 Knight, lying, in dark ages, 302 , 49; scarce a, 145 , 7 Knights of chivalry, 42 , 35; 260 , 41 Know , seeking to, 40 , 59; three things to, 199 , 27;
— 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.

jewels are as deaf
These inestimable jewels are as deaf as the jewels they wear: time, my lord, time is the only medicine to cure their folly; but this is a medicine which I am certain she will not take; nay, I live in hourly horrors on her account.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

just as a deep
A spiritual wound produced by a rending of the spiritual body is like a physical wound and, strange as it may seem, just as a deep wound may heal and its edges join, physical and spiritual wounds alike can yet heal completely only as the result of a vital force from within.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

juices and are distilled
There are other waters which are called juices and are distilled through plants.
— from Timaeus by Plato

Jews also are derived
But Clearchus the Solensian, in his Treatise on [9] Education says, that the Gymnosophists are descendants of the Magi; and some say that the Jews also are derived from them.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

just as a diversion
In this case love delights, to begin with, just as a diversion.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Jane alone and did
Thence, being forced to pay a great deale of money away in boxes (that is, basins at White Hall), I to my barber’s, Gervas, and there had a little opportunity of speaking with my Jane alone, and did give her something, and of herself she did tell me a place where I might come to her on Sunday next, which I will not fail, but to see how modestly and harmlessly she brought it out was very pretty.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

just about as deep
This mystery is just about as deep as the time-honored conundrum as to why great rivers flow by great towns.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Jack Ashburnham and Dr
I dined with Sir G. Carteret, with whom dined Mr. Jack Ashburnham and Dr. Creeton, who I observe to be a most good man and scholar.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

just as a dog
Then in a sudden fury seized the landlord fiercely by the neck, and forced him to his knees; and foot on head ground his face savagely among the bones of his victims, where they lay thickest; and the assassin first yelled, then whined and whimpered, just as a dog first yells, then whines, when his nose is so forced into some leveret or other innocent he has killed.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

Just as about divine
Just as about divine things there are many divine reasonings in the philosophers taking their origin from Homer, so also with human affairs it is the same.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

John acted as deputy
Thereupon Sandys stepped aside and the earl of Southampton, who agreed with him in all his views, was appointed and kept in office till the company's dissolution; and for much of this time Nicholas Ferrar, brother of John, acted as deputy to the earl.
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

jaw and almost dropped
CHAPTER XX MILLIONS IN SIGHT George dropped his jaw and almost dropped the pan.
— from The Pike's Peak Rush; Or, Terry in the New Gold Fields by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Jove and a decent
"But I do, by Jove, and a decent lot of chaps they are.
— from The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy

just az a dorg
Even boys hav tew be larnt how tew work, just az a dorg haz tew be lernt how to churn butter, and i hav known dorgs, after they had got well lernt, to hide under the barn churning days.
— from Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things by Josh Billings

just arrived at Dorking
At present, I am just arrived at Dorking—to change the Scene—change the Air, and give me a spur to wind up my Poem, of which there are wanting 500 lines.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

journey and again decentralised
[473] He believed that he should be doing both a popular and a politic act if he saved them from the burden of this long journey and again decentralised the cult which Solomon had so recently centralised.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

James and a detailed
Oh, this was too simple: a nice quiet look at the guardians of Whitehall, with perhaps a glimpse for the infant mind of the vast resources of the British Empire; a word in season, perhaps, from Uncle James; and a detailed report to Margaret of instruction combined with amusement.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 14, 1916 by Various

Jews are admitted de
But this is by no means certain; in the article from The Gentleman's Magazine already quoted it is stated that Jews are admitted; de Luchet further quotes the instance of David Moses Hertz received in a London lodge in 1787; and the author of Les Franc-Masons écrasés , published in 1746, states that he has seen three Jews received into a lodge at Amsterdam.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster


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