And when they want to give us a picture of a battle, after having told us that there are a million of combatants on the side of the enemy, let the hero of the book be opposed to them, and we have perforce to believe, whether we like it or not, that the said knight wins the victory by the single might of his strong arm.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Outposts were themselves under OWI for certain purposes; for other purposes they were subject to the chief of mission (ambassador, minister or chargé) of the U. S. in the foreign country, and still other purposes under the American military commander having local jurisdiction.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

On rising, all women should use some mode of cold or tepid bath; and, indeed, in this respect the practice of the present day is admirable; there is every facility for the bath.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

No mere party or sectional cry, no technicalities of constitutional or military law, no methods of craft or policy, can touch the heart of a nation in the midst of revolution.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

s , need of, 329 , 11 Subsistence , man's sure, 265 , 35; Mirabeau on three means of, 211 , 6 Substance , discriminated from accident, 2 , 45; for shadow, 36 , 53; my, is not here, 305 , 31; the only real, 446 , 20 Substitute in absence of the king, 21 , 9 Succeeding , best way of, 565 , 7 Success , a condition of, 5 , 39; 209 , 35; a diagnosis required for, 495 , 53; a dream, 72 , 49; a result, 159 , 33; a secret of, 271 , 57; by failure, 99 , 27; condition of, 12 , 36; conditions of, 149 , 7; Danton on the secret of, 38 , 11; desert of, thing to aim at, 488 , 27; encouragement from, 160 , 37; ever tinged with sadness, 210 , 21; failure of, reason of, 201 , 46; first essential of, 495 , 44; first secret of, 386 , 15; great secret of, 493 , 34; honoured, 89 , 10; how missed, 456 , 26; how to attain, 177 , 43; how won, 330 , 25; in need of consolation, 89 , 30; nothing succeeds like, 316 , 39; secret of, 452 , 46, 48, 49; 476 , 6; the effect of, on our judgment, 138 , 32; the greatest, 432 , 39; the parent of, 193 , 36; two ways to, 468 , 3; worldly, glare of, 469 , 36; worldly, Queen Elizabeth on, 479 , 24 Successes often disappointments, 277 , 23 Succour , angelic, 162 , 12; from above, when sure, 563 , 24 Suddenness , the shock from, 88 , 14 Suffer , to, and be strong, sublime, 219 , 52 Sufferance , badge of Jew, 111 , 8 Sufferer , the greatest, not always best, 298 , 6 Suffering , acute, of short duration, 520 , 6; compulsory, 381 , 22; contrasted with happiness, 139 , 40; effect of, on native character, 314 , 11; general, a sign of general immorality, 119 , 40; human, cause of, 267 , 31; human, root of, 134 , 39; law of, 443 , 9; necessary to being, 489 , 45; nothing singular in, 326 , 39; often in apprehension, 350 , 8; our lot, 206 , 25; protection from, 517 , 31; remembrance of, 361 , 9; sole remedy for, 111 , 9; the effect of, 335 , 9; vicarious, 428 , 24 Sufferings , another's, judging of, 202 , 32; light, test of, 244 , 33; our, tutors, 342 , 52; superiority to, 475 , 2 Sufficiency , a moderate, 27 , 55 Suffrage , universal, questionableness of, 507 , 38 Sullenness , an attribute of things, 480 , 34 Summit , of power, man at, 116 , 30; the, reached by climbing, 34 , 11 Summons , the, that arouses a man, 284 , 16 Sun , a type of Jesus, 483 , 33; and shadow it casts, 546 , 6; beautifying power of, 26 , 21; -clear, the, no arguing against, 4 , 72; down, while yet day, 155 , 3; extinction of, effect of, 415 , 10; looks on all alike, 453 , 8; never sets on my dominions, 170 , 5; not to be economically viewed, 530 , 2; on evil and good, 144 , 28; real or spiritual, condition of love for, 565 , 36; spots, vulgar judgment of, 422 , 19; splendour of brief, 89 , 29; the rising, Mirabeau to, 390 , 4; the, no liar, 397 , 13; the power of, 319 , 21; the real and the spiritual, defined, 565 , 36; the, sayings about, 456 , 16-21; there, though concealed, 89 , 35; things that love, 10 , 58; who soars too near, 552 , 34 Sunbeam , incorruptible purity of, 21 , 11 Sunlight , our dependence on, 204 , 9 Sun-setting , a bright, 520 , 19; effect of, 396 , 49 Suns that shine at night, 334 , 14 Sunshine , from, to sunless land, 161 , 15; those who bring us, 483 , 3 Superfluities , folly of pursuit of, 397 , 44 Superfluous , necessary, 235 , 18 Superior , and inferior, law of, 198 , 19; man, way of, 461 , 21; without subjection to, no rest, 125 , 6 Superiority , condition of, 554 , 9; contrasted with majority, 260 , 15; manifestation of, price of, 441 , 25; {pg 646} the art of attaining, 233 , 32; the condition of, 147 , 23 Supernatural , Horace on introduction of, into composition, 293 , 33; the, the source and goal of all things, 554 , 31; the, to a child, 315 , 44; true region of, 396 , 33 Superstition , effect of, contrasted with atheism, 21 , 32; compared with fanaticism, 101 , 40; defined, 569 , 41; effect of science on, 544 , 20; Frederick the Great on Voltaire's raid against, 555 , 29; its power over us, 456 , 25; obstinacy of, 468 , 7; rather than unbelief, 166 , 25; the basis of, 53 , 3; the worst, 465 , 33; those opposed to, 479 , 31; weakness of, 11 , 20; where sure to be found, 402 , 43 Supper , Holy, observance of, 435 , 25 Suppliants at preferment's gate, 508 , 14 Surfeit , mortality from, 286 , 17; suffering from, 19 , 58; they that, with too much, 478 , 44 Surgeon , good, qualifications of, 6 , 56; young, 212 , 48 Suspicion , a life of, 147 , 40; the evil of, 400 , 27 Suspiciou s man, a, 41 , 31 Swallow , the, wheeling, 553 , 3 Swallow-flights , short, of song, 389 , 32 Swan of Avon , sweet, 149 , 25 Swearer , the cheap, 420 , 3 Swedenborg , the mourner, 465 , 14 Sweet , and bitter, common source of, 116 , 29; no, without sweat, 302 , 23; the fate of everything, 513 , 21 Sweetness , fleeting, 88 , 41; versus asperity, 4 , 55 Swift's epitaph, 504 , 35 Sword , and pen compared, 27 , 51; and the right, 456 , 36; good, in poor scabbard, 130 , 13; leaden, in ivory scabbard, 7 , 72; striking with, 148 , 31 Swordsman , a good, 31 , 28 Sworn foe to sorrow, care, or prose, 167 , 23 Sybarite , the, and his body, 315 , 23 Symbol , new, a welcome gift, 473 , 30; the idea of a, 184 , 23 Symbolic , everything, 10 , 55 Symbols , who works merely with, defined, 152 , 48 Sympathy , and pleasure, effects of, 349 , 32; flower of life, 502 , 12; in ordinary life, rare, 385 , 34; indifference to, 316 , 24; power of, 281 , 9; 319 , 11; 390 , 40; secret of, 253 , 14; with lowest, power of, 153 , 10; with spirit of man, significance of, 548 , 46 Systems , only words, 534 , 9 T Taciturnity , commended, by Burns, 235 , 42; where to learn, 332 , 45 Tact , and perseverance, value of, 346 , 40; contrasted with talent, 409 , 48; importance of, 559 , 45 Taking out and never putting in, 4 , 43 Tale , a round, unvarnished, 251 , 28; an oft-told, 369 , 4; he cometh with a, 142 , 16; I could a, untold, 165 , 31; plainly told, 15 , 18; spoiled in telling, 307 , 23 Tale-bearer , words of, 463 , 44 Talent , a, to be guarded against, 528 , 31; all, moral, 10 , 27; and character, how formed respectively, 85 , 20; and the world, 464 , 24; as determining and determined, 2 , 57; as man's enemy, 464 , 47; compared with wealth, 136 , 42; contrasted with genius, 120 , 18, 50; 121 , 3; definition of, 481 , 41; eye for, what is involved in, 458 , 40; field open to, 194 , 4; for literature, a, 477 , 22; guide to vocation, 75 , 14; great, happiness of, 17 , 40; happiness of using, 441 , 15; mark of, 491 , 39; ordinary, with perseverance, power of, 558 , 38; the curse of, 206 , 7; versus genius, 54 , 32; a, which we cannot perfect, 29 , 66 Talents , by nature, 239 , 28; characteristic of, 382 , 14; distinguished, not therefore discreet, 69 , 44; great, often hid, 379 , 28; great (see Great talents); high, the pride of, 400 , 33; often without genius, 269 , 11 Talisman , a, acknowledged by nature, 21 , 23 Talk , filthy, 166 , 33; honourablest part of, 435 , 29; measure of, 529 , 19; the ineffectuality of, 176 , 40; unwise, harmfulness of, 509 , 11 Talkers , a consideration for, 306 , 24; an evil they suffer, 428 , 16; compared with thinkers, 33 , 8; great, 39 , 23; two sets of, 399 , 3; weaknesses of, 19 , 13 Talking , always, effect of, 479 , 19; and acting, motives of, 529 , 20; caution in regard to, 345 , 6; good, and good work, conjointly impossible, 305 , 22; great charm of, 496 , 1; and doing nothing, 491 , 19; in morals and art, 53 , 8; long, effect of, 252 , 36; much, 148 , 35, 36; not to be monopolised, 297 , 3; passion of women, 448 , 4; the rule in, 34 , 28 Tall men often empty-headed, 325 , 37 Tardiness , the evil of, 401 , 37 Tarpeian Rock, the, 227 , 29 Task , a noble, never easy, 305 , 32; one's, how to be done, 541 , 33 Taskmaster , the great, 19 , 7 Taste , defined, 381 , 28; effect of delicacy of, 57 , 48; false, defined, 536 , 11; good (see Good taste); purity of, test of, 339 , 5; sense of, its exquisiteness, 137 , 32; true, development of, 500 , 40 Tastes , pleasant, 349 , 26 Tattler , characterised, 21 , 25 Taxation , a reason for, 295 , 34; for benefit of a class, 496 , 3; in relation to liberty, 185 , 41; of posterity, for folly, 475 , 45; on mere labour and brains, 307 , 19 Taxes , self-imposed, 522 , 21; sinews of the state, 524 , 25; the heaviest, 170 , 33; to the commonwealth, 511 , 50 Teach , who should, 242 , 40 Teachable mind, mark of, 21 , 26 Teacher , a good, test of, 305 , 50; a wise, 144 , 3; an authoritative, ever a necessity, 566 , 14; and pedant contrasted, 234 , 23; business of, 492 , 50; man's best, 414 , 32; qualification of, 77 , 22; 151 , 45; the only, 454 , 38; with imperfect knowledge, 475 , 34 Teachers , our real, 231 , 51; who have boobies to deal with, Burns' pity for, 126 , 18 Teaching , a, before all, 519 , 38; false, Gen. Gordon on, 544 , 48; great art of, 493 , 33; no living by, 308 , 20; no, without inspiration, 162 , 26; rule in, 366 , 14; to be commensurate with intelligence in pupil, 203 , 46; to be successful, 353 , 35; when spiritually profitable, 307 , 24 Tear , a, for pity, 142 , 51; law that moulds, 414 , 20; merit of drying, 424 , 25; of joy, the, 456 , 44; of tender heart, no stemming, 208 , 32; the mourning, 456 , 44; witchcraft in a, 533 , 25 Tears , a debt, 406 , 50; a necessity for man, 239 , 9; causes of, 399 , 4; expression of tenderness, 282 , 16; expressiveness of, 195 , 42; joyful, oh for a bosom in which to shed, 322 , 21; lent by nature, 291 , 10; motive powers, 231 , 14; Nature's, 292 , 42; obscuring power of, 478 , 18; of penitents, 456 , 45; often a bad sign, 151 , 13; sacredness in, 470 , 25; safety-valves, 452 , 22; sometimes for show, 349 , 53; soothing power of, 87 , 27; sowing in, 479 , 49; tender, power of, 482 , 41; the cause of, 205 , 18; the channels of, 394 , 38; to be secret, 335 , 24 {pg 647} Teeth without bread, and bread without teeth, 41 , 25 Telegraph , electric, no substitute for face of a man, 425 , 1 Teleology , question of, 450 , 30 Telescope versus eye, 360 , 36 Telescopes and eyes, 98 , 21 Tell-tale , harm one, does, 332 , 20; out of school, 457 , 1 Temper , an even and cheerful, benefit of, 426 , 9; and circumstance, accord between, 143 , 29; fate, 12 , 59; the, how to treat, 198 , 39 Temperaments , our, diversity in, 339 , 25 Temperance , a physician, 227 , 37; and health, 153 , 32, 37; 260 , 36; as a virtue, 460 , 42; defined, 113 , 12; 432 , 27; in cold latitudes, 435 , 11; incompatible with love of pleasure, 303 , 5; true, a part of, 199 , 49 Tempers , unsociable, 508 , 26 Tempest , sorest, issue of, 454 , 10; the objects it attacks, 457 , 4 Temple , but one, in world, 471 , 19; no, easily reared, 565 , 40; reared on ruins of churches, 125 , 19 Temptation , a, merely fled from, 527 , 6; anxiety to avoid, a snare, 269 , 25; common, 469 , 17; effect on us of resisting, 524 , 9; enduring, blessed, 30 , 53; flight from, 117 , 11; no guard against, 306 , 26, 40; object of, 106 , 43; our desire, 525 , 18; power of victory over, 565 , 5; resisted, not known, 540 , 5; resisting, serving God, 126 , 33; to sin in loving virtue, 284 , 12; virtue unequal to overcome, 162 , 32; when under, 547 , 9 Temptations , and trials, our own, thought hardest, 91 , 50; beginning of all, 417 , 20; only skin deep, 268 , 15; teaching of, 525 , 9 Tenants , poor, in the factor's hands, Burns on, 352 , 38 Tendency , present, of things, 429 , 45 Tenderness , defeating prudence, 450 , 4; thought of, at death, 543 , 18; throne of, 75 , 49; want of, 518 , 34; weakness of, 395 , 21 Tennyson , rank as poet, 503 , 48 Term of things, God-appointed, 480 , 32 Territory , loss of, 439 , 46 Terror , a life-long, horror of, 27 , 46 Terrors , men amidst, 161 , 8; most, illusory, 284 , 39 Testament , framed with injustice, 472 , 51 Testimony , written, value of, 250 , 34 Teufelsdröckh , as a rejected man, at the centre of indifference, 111 , 14 Thanks , at all enough, 544 , 4; exchequer of poor, 89 , 46; fed on, 287 , 42 Thanksgiving , God-glorifying, 126 , 35 Theatre , and pulpit, 457 , 14; private, of great account, 262 , 5 Theft , contrasted with carelessness, 36 , 6; proscribed by Christianity, 241 , 7 Theme , a common, hard to treat freshly, 67 , 28 Theologian , experience of, 424 , 8 Theologians slain by science, 97 , 59 Theological absurdities embraced by the greatest men, 307 , 26 Theology , and philosophy, Carlyle on, 347 , 38; compared with religion, 372 , 22; false, the cure for, 422 , 26 Theorists , crotchety, 444 , 4 Theory , all, gray, 132 , 42; how to test a, 397 , 38 There , never here, 457 , 15 Thief , and anvil, 8 , 60; and opportunity, 77 , 27; saving a, 381 , 8; the greatest, 324 , 41 Thieves , and their chains, 251 , 38; little and great, how treated, 219 , 35, 36; more, than are hanged, 52 , 23 Thing , a, how defined, 21 , 35; that most needs to be done not easy, 414 , 31 Things , all, co-operative, 11 , 3; all, only halves, 75 , 25; are as regarded, 233 , 12; best at their sources, 238 , 8; how to know, 377 , 19; more, in heaven and earth, 467 , 23; often misconstrued, 33 , 16; the path of, 447 , 12; to be done decently and in order, 240 , 20; with more spirit chased, 552 , 23 Think , how to learn to, 200 , 43 Thinker , accurate, compared with accurate observer, 110 , 34; arrival of, an epoch, 186 , 32; earnest, no plagiarist, 301 , 37; fairest fortune to a, 54 , 26; great, test of, 305 , 37; peril to things caused by advent of, 545 , 35; the, and the public, 486 , 18; the light he requires, 457 , 28; the, want of, 529 , 38; to be guarded against, 29 , 73 Thinkers , and seers compared, 453 , 7; relation of, to workers, 482 , 47 Thinking , a disease, 333 , 31; abortiveness of always, 42 , 8; acting, 496 , 21; and having ideas compared, 493 , 9; and living, contrasted, 40 , 12; and saying, 344 , 42, 43; any, rather than none, 266 , 19; as wishing, 320 , 8; before writing, 241 , 2; clear, and ardent loving, 230 , 32; contrasted with doing, 50 , 42; defined, 339 , 26; effect of, 475 , 15; evil of too much, 559 , 7; faculty, Goethe's thrift of, 334 , 18; free-, a vain boast, 523 , 26; how alone possible, 205 , 14; leaving off, evil of, 427 , 17; less harm from, than speech, 269 , 6; man a terror to the devil, 21 , 39; man, fairest portion of, 493 , 4; man, not appreciated, 161 , 16; no, no wisdom, 148 , 4; often no thinking, 161 , 16; power of, 485 , 2; powerful and bold, 264 , 30; rare, 164 , 13; rule of, 274 , 45; that is none, 149 , 15; the rule of, 481 , 16; the value of, 369 , 6; too much, 152 , 32; too much, effect of, 569 , 8; what is implied in, 334 , 40 Thirty , without sense at, 364 , 5 Thomson , Littleton on the muse of, 110 , 3 Thongs , from others' leather, 32 , 45 Thorn , but a changed bud, 21 , 41; near the rose, 529 , 34 Thorns , when to trample on, 550 , 22 Thought , a good, a boon, 6 , 56; a good, power of, 75 , 7; a great, news of, 145 , 1; a monarch of, the thought of, 518 , 47; a noble, effect on us of, 547 , 27; a single, significance of, 20 , 15; a sudden, 21 , 10; a true, mark of, 414 , 17; accompaniments of, 559 , 6; and action, the worlds of, 465 , 8; and diction, propriety of, conjoined, 358 , 15; and its relation to world, 484 , 30; application of, merit in, 473 , 14; as expressed in action, 3 , 48; compared with speech, 401 , 10, 12, 13 , 16, 17; constant, unconscious overflow of, 46 , 58; contrasted with action, 61 , 25; contrasted with will, 556 , 20; dependence of, on character, 161 , 5; every, once a poem, 94 , 54; good, dependence of, on good cheer, 126 , 35; grandeur of, 162 , 11; greatness of, 311 , 51; he, as a sage, 149 , 14; high, rhythmic, 525 , 2; how made healthy, 205 , 13; how to test, 149 , 47; intense, fatiguing, 280 , 3; its activity, 315 , 10; justice of, how attained, 216 , 19; less, more talk, 282 , 11; moment to seize a, 90 , 44; mustard-seed of, its vitality, 444 , 27; nature of, 432 , 9; no, contented, 307 , 29; no curbing, 264 , 29; norm of, 253 , 18; of ages, crystallised in a moment, 89 , 38; on the sea of passion, 508 , 29; one, inclusive of all, 334 , 23; one's own, to be entirely credited, 220 , 3; one's, to be trusted, 184 , 45; original, preciousness of an, 169 , 31; parent of deed, 457 , 34; power in, 474 , 34; power of, 94 , 55; 206 , 39; prior to fact 457, 33; profound, 443 , 21; property in, 484 , 24; pure, independent of time, 486 , 46; relation of, to action, 58 , 37; revelation of its power, 451 , 20; sin of stifling, 496 , 2; slave of life, 33 , 29; tendency of, 203 , 25; that cannot be simply expressed, 542 , 29; the aim of every, at its origin, 94 , 53; the atmosphere of, 81 , 32; the analogue of, 44 , 30; the generous, 125 , 17; {pg 648} the, to him who cannot think, 421 , 18; the well of, effect of drawing from, 565 , 30; the world-process, 279 , 33; true and precise, superior to cloudy fancy, 500 , 37; undying, 26 , 16; want of, effect of, 521 , 15; when beautiful or just, 307 , 28; wicked, impress of, 555 , 34; withering, hid in smiles, 117 , 24 Thoughtfulness , a medium in, 477 , 46 Thoughtlessness , cause of evil, 33 , 5 Thoughts , appropriation and invention of, 199 , 44; audacity of human, 44 , 21; best expression of, to be respected, 467 , 1; bitter, to be suppressed, 33 , 12; dead men's, as agents, 419 , 20; divine revelations, 96 , 2; evil, our power over, 526 , 16; evil, to a good man, 173 , 1; free, but not hell-free, 119 , 16; good, how they come, 10 , 48; good, unexecuted, 130 , 21; great, from above, 306 , 45; great (see Great thoughts ); heard in heaven, 137 , 8; how to treat our, 428 , 6; in the heart of, courtesy, 156 , 30; like flowers, 207 , 36; love's heralds, 257 , 6; man's, with the stars, 263 , 39; men's (see Men's thoughts ); native soil of, 54 , 36; no rule for preserving or acquiring, 233 , 35; noble, the companionship of, 478 , 47; of little-minded people, easy to gauge, 251 , 23; of preternatural suggestion, 33 , 24; of things, influence of, 274 , 11; of unreflective minds, 508 , 22; our, and ourselves, 339 , 27; our best, 337 , 16; our fugitive, 339 , 28; our relation to our, 523 , 31; outrun us, 274 , 5; pass muster, 240 , 45; pregnant, 468 , 10; prostitution of, 182 , 22; religious, mixed with scruples, 307 , 29; roving, to be guarded, 320 , 33; sayings about, 457 , 35, 39; that look through words, 157 , 13; the only immortal, 507 , 48; thy, give no tongue, 123 , 30; unstained and evil, 508 , 28 Thraldom , a, unpitied, 147 , 24; hateful, 323 , 22 Thrall , in person, may be free, 457 , 40 Threateners , not fighters, 73 , 6; often cowards, 268 , 30 Threatening , loud, 482 , 42 Threats , hardening effect of, 496 , 28; naught, 150 , 19 Threshold , expectant, 90 , 5 Thrift , and magnificence, 359 , 12; as a revenue, 259 , 37; secret of, 218 , 25 Thriving , distrust of, 191 , 45 Throne , a, raised to, and being born to, 203 , 6; by what established, 457 , 41; something behind, 476 , 35 Thunder , nothing but, 48 , 39 Thunderbolts on innocent, 214 , 48 Thyrsus , the, bearers of, 417 , 4 Tibullus , Ovid on remains of, 209 , 51 Tide , but no gulf-stream, in affairs, 500 , 47; in the affairs of men, 470 , 35; the, to be seized, 527 , 11 Time , a new, birth of, in pain, 182 , 33; a proper, for everything, 104 , 48; a test and a revealer, 337 , 4; a waste of, 520 , 23; advices in regard to, 409 , 34, 35; ameliorating effect of, 285 , 38; an innovator, 271 , 24; and eternity, 88 , 4; and I against any two, 165 , 8; and our complaint of its shortness, 520 , 34; and the hour, 44 , 52; as a cure, 81 , 1; as counsellor, 472 , 9; as preacher, 59 , 43; beyond our power, 340 , 23; connection of, with eternity, 150 , 41; dependence of things on, 481 , 20; different relationships of men to the, 431 , 24; driving away, 479 , 40; earth-spirit at loom of, 395 , 20; effect of, on a man, 240 , 13; economised, too late, 269 , 35; enough, if well applied, 331 , 35; eternity made manifest, 265 , 2; expenditure of, 97 , 25; fleetness and tyranny of, 78 , 20; flight of, irreparable, 117 , 13; God's, and ours, 62 , 48; how it is annihilated, 542 , 30; how to baffle, 401 , 48; how to beguile, 491 , 7; how to count, 528 , 25; how to win, 260 , 38; how we get rid of, 407 , 34; ill employed, lost, 330 , 36; in relation to eternity, 482 , 6; in relation to life, 339 , 40; its evanescence, compensated, 522 , 6; its stealthy flow, 228 , 22; its unnoticed lapse, 453 , 49; killing, a labour, 466 , 6; lenient hand of, 437 , 36; man the child of, 265 , 2; man's-angel, 62 , 15; man's inheritance and seed-field, 288 , 6; mystery of, Carlyle on, 413 , 13; no, for saying all things, 87 , 31; of day, known only to wise, 108 , 46; one's distribution of, 63 , 20; 387 , 51; 388 , 1; 393 , 15; one's own, benefiting, 150 , 31; our complaint and conduct in regard to, 521 , 7; our, fixed, 339 , 29; passing of, common to all, 395 , 31; rightly seized, 63 , 20; sayings about, 235 , 19-21; 412 , 9-17; 486 , 24-53; 487 , 1-25; silence of, 317 , 3; take good note of, 300 , 23; that bears no fruit, 457 , 46; the accepted, 27 , 14; the flight of, 412 , 5; the havoc of, our exclusive contemplation of, 338 , 38; the magic of, 569 , 21; the, our treatment of, 528 , 1; the present, Emerson on, 482 , 13; the present, sayings about, 449 , 13, 14; the reality of, 205 , 27; the sun-steeds of, 456 , 22; the thought of, 481 , 15; the, to be studied, 174 , 35; the weird images of, 316 , 53; the, who wants the spirit of, 364 , 2; things done in, 192 , 1-3; to be economised, 81 , 45; to be honoured in passing, 392 , 23; to be occupied, 510 , 32; to be seized, 176 , 49; to be taken by the forelock, 158 , 20; to be valued, 85 , 41; two different attitudes to, 336 , 21; value of, 72 , 5; waste of, 432 , 10; wasted on others, 4 , 2; wasted, 269 , 30; wasted and wasting, 169 , 4;
— 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.

but when I see them make matters of conscience of such toys and trifles, to adore the devil, to endanger their souls, to offer their children to their idols, &c. I must needs condole their misery.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And after cometh the black with the leaf, in manner of clusters of raisins, all green.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Will had given a disinterested attention to an intended settlement on a new plan in the Far West, and the need for funds in order to carry out a good design had set him on debating with himself whether it would not be a laudable use to make of his claim on Bulstrode, to urge the application of that money which had been offered to himself as a means of carrying out a scheme likely to be largely beneficial.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The separation is responsible on one hand for an exaggeration of the moral importance of the more direct or personal modes of control of which we have been speaking; and on the other hand for an exaggeration, in current psychology and philosophy, of the intellectual possibilities of contact with a purely physical environment.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

As a rule such sentiment bored him, but this was done with so much simplicity and atmosphere, that it brought a picture of Clara to his mind, of Clara on such a cool, gray day with her keen blue eyes staring out, trying to see her tragedies come marching over the gardens outside.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

It is a matter of conscience, of courage, of truth!
— from The Scarlet Feather by Houghton Townley

It claims to impose silence at will on any matters, or controversies, of doctrine, which on its own ipse dixit it pronounces to be dangerous, or inexpedient, or inopportune.
— from Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various

We often perceive in the choirs of conventual churches, as in our cathedrals, on either side of the entrance, facing the east, and also on the [174] north and south sides, a range of wooden stalls divided into single seats, peculiarly constructed, the formulæ or forms of which were movable, and carved on the subselliæ or under-sides with grotesque, satirical, and often irreverend devices: these were appropriated to the monks or canons of the monastery or college to which the church was attached.
— from The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam

The lowest or poorest class of indian men and women wear a very scanty and coarse apparel; the men have a pair of cotton drawers, hanging below the knees; a garment somewhat like a wide sack, having an opening to pass the head through, and two holes for the arms; this kind of tunic is made of cotton or wool, it reaches almost to the knees, and is girt round the waist.
— from Historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America (Vol 2 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

[Pg 282] to the representations of apprehension can only be represented as the object of the same, distinct therefrom, if it stands under a rule which distinguishes it from every other apprehension, and renders necessary a mode of conjunction of the manifold."
— from Kant's Theory of Knowledge by H. A. (Harold Arthur) Prichard

In most instances where this has been done, members of congress, or their near relatives, were large owners of stock in the companies to be bene
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

To conclude the eventful year of 1846, Captain Mundy returned to Sarawak in December with instructions from the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Lord Palmerston, conveyed through Sir Thomas Cochrane, to occupy the Island of Labuan, after consulting with the Rajah as to the best mode of carrying out his instructions.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

Admiral Galloway, the Commanding Officer of the National Naval Medical Center; my own commanding officer, Captain John H. Stover of the Naval Medical School, Dr. John Ebersole, one of the radiologists assigned to the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, who assisted with X-ray examinations which were made.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Back there are other manners, other customs, other types of men: a different light on the world altogether.
— from The Doctor's Christmas Eve by James Lane Allen