So far from setting any value on individuality—so far from respecting the rights of each individual to act, in things indifferent, as seems good to his own judgment and inclinations, judges and juries cannot even conceive that a person in a state of sanity can desire such freedom.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
But, apart from all local inclinings, men of thought and feeling will ever welcome any spark of genuine creative fire, which glows with such genial human sympathies, and such an honourable sense of justice as John Collier evinces, however humble it may be in comparison with the achievements of those mighty spirits who have made the literature of our sea-girt island glorious in the earth.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh
JUDGE AGUSTY J. CHAPIN, ESQ., L.L.D., opened the dance with a prologue.
— from Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 30, October 22, 1870 by Various
42-43, 93-94, 245, 257; v. 133; vi. 47, 91, 123, 179 Miniac (see Gouyon de Miniac) Mionnet, Theodore, v. 53-54 Mirabeau, Victor Riquetti, Marquis de, i. 167; vi. 42 Mirabeau, Gabriel Honoré Riquetti, Comte de, i. xxi, 83, 155, 166-171, 175-177, 179, 182; ii. 4, 12, 71, 77, 109; iii. 166 ; iv. 6, 39, 47, 55-56; vi. 42, 155 Mirabeau, André Boniface Louis Riquetti, Vicomte de, i. 170-171, 175-176; ii. 4, 80 Mirabeau, Jean Antoine Joseph Charles Elzéar de Riquetti, known as the Bailli de, i. 167 Misson, François Maximilien, iv.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Would you care to come with me?" "You're just a jewel, colonel," exclaimed the big Irishman enthusiastically, "and I'm eternally devoted to you.
— from At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens
It happened, however, [Pg 259] that I stood sentinel (men being scarce) over the hatchway, and Brooks, who was always a jolly and jeering companion (even in the very jaws of death) came past me, and offered me a lump of pudding, it being pudding-day on board.
— from Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th.) with anecdotes of his officers and his comrades by Benjamin Harris
[365] Jean Antoine Joseph Charles Elzéar de Riquetti (1717-1794).
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
170 - 171 , 175 - 176 ; ii. 4, 80 Mirabeau, Jean Antoine Joseph Charles Elzéar de Riquetti, known as the Bailli de, i. 167 Misson, François Maximilien, iv.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de
Jim and Judy clasped each other's hands in mute compact at the edict.
— from Judith of the Plains by Marie Manning
However this may be, we have seen, in his estimate of Jesus and John Calvin, evidences of his estrangement from rationalism, of which in his younger days he was so able a champion.
— from The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth? Illustrated by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian
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