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more and to the inferior less and

For it gives to the greater more, and to the inferior less and in proportion to the nature of each; and, above all, greater honour always to the greater virtue, and to the less less; and to either in proportion to their respective measure of virtue and education.
— from Laws by Plato

man ascends to that it loves And

By various grades of hopes, and fears, and sighs, And ecstacies, and woes, raptures, and dreams, The soul of man ascends to that it loves, And is developed into something more; In a more rich creation now it moves, And seeks in other souls a priceless ore:
— from Connected Poems by Charles Seabridge

machines and through their inexperience laughed at

Then for a time they gazed at the Romans cutting wood and constructing the machines and through their inexperience laughed at what was taking place.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

must accept that there is loss and

“Perhaps one must accept that there is loss and suffering always.
— from The Third Window by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

my attention to the initial letter at

In arranging a subject for illumination, I should first draw my attention to the initial letter at the head of the text.
— from Elementary Instruction in the Art of Illuminating and Missal Painting on Vellum A Guide to Modern Illuminators by D. (David) Laurent de Lara

Magazine and they took it like a

Why, it was I made him send his first Chinatown story to the International Magazine, and they took it like a flash and wrote him for more, but he blew in the check they sent him and didn't even answer their letter.
— from Ranson's Folly by Richard Harding Davis

Mexican Antoine the two Indians Lewis and

The Mexican Antoine, the two Indians Lewis and Salvador, and an Irishman named Patrick Dolan, completed the fifteen.
— from History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra by C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan

misconduct another that the individual liberty and

One declared that magistrates were irremovable, except in cases of misconduct; another, that the individual liberty and property of every citizen were inviolable; others insisted on the necessity of convoking the States- general as the only assembly entitled to impose taxes; and the councilors hoped to secure the royal acceptance of these resolutions by some previous votes which asserted that, of those laws which were the very foundation of the Constitution, the first was that which assured the "crown to the reigning house and to its descendants in the male line, in the order of primogeniture.[13]"
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

money and that there is little agreement

That a satisfactory general theory of value must underlie any adequate treatment of the problem of the value of money, and that there is little agreement among monetary theorists concerning the general theory of value, became very evident in the course of this investigation; and that the present writer's conception of value, as expressed in a paper written at that time on the "Quantity Theory," was not satisfactory, became painfully clear after Professor Pope's kindly but fundamental criticisms.
— from Social Value: A Study in Economic Theory, Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson

Montrose and to the inevitable loss and

This account of the Battle of Auldearn I had from an honourable gentleman and experienced soldier, as we were riding by Auldearn, who was present from first to last at this action, and who asked Hurry, 'Who set the battle with such advantage to Montrose and to the inevitable loss and overthrow of his own side?' to whom Hurry, being confident of the gentlemen, said, 'I know what I am doing, we shall have by-and-bye excellent sport between the Irish and the States Regiments, and I shall carry off Seaforth's men without loss;' and that Hurry was more for Montrose than for the States that day is very probable, because, shortly thereafter when he found opportunity, he quitted the States service, and is reckoned as first of Montrose's friends, who, in August next year, embarked with Montrose to get off the nation, and returned with him again in his second expedition to Scotland, and was taken prisoner at Craigchonachan, and sent south and publicly executed with Montrose as guilty of the same fault."
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie

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