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method as to that of others not

He who goes into a crowd must now go one way and then another, keep his elbows close, retire or advance, and quit the straight way, according to what he encounters; and must live not so much according to his own method as to that of others; not according to what he proposes to himself, but according to what is proposed to him, according to the time, according to the men, according to the occasions.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

my attention to the objects of natural

I passed, the time in rambling amongst the magnificent scenery which the country afforded, devoting my attention to the objects of natural history with which it abounds, and taking advantage of the coaches for a lift home when I exceeded my [Pg 170] distance.
— from Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching by M. E. (Martin E.) Haworth

miles almost to the outskirts of New

The Seventh Illinois Cavalry charged, captured the three guns, took two officers and several enlisted men prisoners, and chased Thompson and the rest of his band sixteen miles, almost to the outskirts of New Madrid.
— from From Fort Henry to Corinth by M. F. (Manning Ferguson) Force

merely another type turned out of Nature

Not that she considered it a deficiency, it was merely another type turned out of Nature's workshop.
— from Dodo: A Detail of the Day. Volumes 1 and 2 by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

men according to the order of Nature

Such is the destiny of men according to the order of Nature.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 684 February 3, 1877 by Various

Mal admitting that the object of negotiation

The vendor was obliged to make out a bill, endorsed by the Beit el Mal, admitting that the object of negotiation was absolutely and entirely the property of the purchaser; and for this bill a tax was levied.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

mythologists assume that the order of Nature

Summing up, Spencer thus concludes: "Instead of seeing in the common character of so-called myths, that they describe combats of beings using weapons, evidence that they arose out of human transactions; mythologists assume that the order of Nature presents itself to the undeveloped mind in terms of victories and defeats.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

much as the tail of one No

Do you know how the rules of our order enjoin them to be driven out, so that never again during her conventional life shall a sister see so much as the tail of one?” “No,” replied the novice.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

mine and to that of our nation

"It is well you can say so, else wo would have fallen to your lot, to mine, and to that of our nation."
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3) by James Hogg

man according to the order of nature

Reply Obj. 2: Divine and immortal things surpass man according to the order of nature.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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