Of this ‘religion’ it has been said: “The name embraces education, letters, ethics, and political philosophy.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
DOÑA INÉS: ¿No estamos en la ciudad?
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla
ANT: Honorable, noble, eminent, exalted, lordly, grand, notable, illustrious.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
Hoy no entra en la cuenta, Is not in the reckoning.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla
TRANSLATOR'S NOTE .—This is doubtless a reference to a passage in a letter written by Goethe to Herder, on 7th June 1793, from the camp at Marienborn, near Mainz, in which the following words occur:—" Dagegen hat aber auch Kant seinen philosophischen Mantel, nachdem er ein langes Menschenleben gebraucht hat, ihn von mancherlei sudelhaften Vorurteilen zu reinigen, freventlich mit dem Schandfleck des radikalen Bösen beschlabbert, damit doch auch Christen herbeigelockt werden den Saum zu küssen?— ("Kant, on the other hand, after he had tried throughout his life to keep his philosophical cloak unsoiled by foul prejudices, wantonly dirtied it in the end with the disreputable stain of the 'radical evil' in human nature, in order that Christians too might be lured into kissing its hem.")
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
He was greatly moved at so piteous a sight, and, perceiving that the Romans were touched by the despairing entreaties of the people of Sutrium, who clung to them with tears in their eyes, determined that he would at once avenge their wrongs, and march upon Sutrium that very day, arguing that men who were merry with success, having just captured a wealthy city, with no enemy either left within its walls or expected from without, would be found in careless disorder.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch
Ergo inter sese paribus concurrere telis 490 Romanas acies iterum videre Philippi; Nec fuit indignum superis, bis sanguine nostro Emathiam et latos Haemi pinguescere campos.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
I have not even enough leisure to attend to my illness.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
Quare L. Sullae, C. Caesaris pecuniarum translatio a iustis dominis ad alienos non debet liberalis videri; nihil est enim liberale, quod non idem iustum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is simply that there was not enough energy loss there, and one would expect a soft tissue injury beyond that point to be of considerably greater magnitude.
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
The successors of Augustus, though they did not equally encourage learning, were not altogether neglectful of its interests.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
Terrain: low, flat delta in south and north; central highlands; hilly, mountainous in far north and northwest Elevation extremes: lowest point: South China Sea 0 m highest point: Ngoc Linh 3,143 m Natural resources: phosphates, coal, manganese, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, forests, hydropower Land use: arable land: 17% permanent crops: 4% permanent pastures: 1% forests and woodland: 30% other: 48% (1993 est.)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Southeast Asia Area: total: 181,040 sq km land: 176,520 sq km water: 4,520 sq km Area-comparative: slightly smaller than Oklahoma Land boundaries: total: 2,572 km border countries: Laos 541 km, Thailand 803 km, Vietnam 1,228 km Coastline: 443 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: tropical; rainy, monsoon season (May to November); dry season (December to April); little seasonal temperature variation Terrain: mostly low, flat plains; mountains in southwest and north Elevation extremes: lowest point: Gulf of Thailand 0 m highest point: Phnum Aoral 1,810 m Natural resources: timber, gemstones, some iron ore, manganese, phosphates, hydropower potential Land use: arable land: 13% permanent crops: 0% permanent pastures: 11% forests and woodland: 66% other: 10% (1993 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
The poor, silly miner would turn away with a sickly look, having not even enough left to get him a change of clothing.
— from Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown by James S. (James Stephens) Brown
Enrique de Guzman de volver á España, no entrar en la Corte ni volver á Roma;” 24 Aug. 1694 f. 81 10.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos
Sokrates is persuaded that it will be in either case a benefit to him, and that the Gods will take care that he, a good man, shall suffer no evil, either living or dead: the proof of which is, to him, that the divine sign has 421 never interposed any obstruction in regard to his trial and sentence.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote
It is a common error to suppose that, let a boy be what he may, when sent to Eton, Westminster, Harrow, or any great school, he will be moulded into proper form by the fortuitous pressure of numbers; that emulation will necessarily excite, example lead, and opposition polish him.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth
Bangladesh 4,053 km, Bhutan 605 km, Burma 1,463 km, China 3,380 km, Nepal 1,690 km, Pakistan 2,912 km Coastline: 7,000 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north Terrain: upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north Elevation extremes: lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: Kanchenjunga 8,598 m Natural resources: coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone Land use: arable land: 56% permanent crops: 1% permanent pastures: 4% forests and woodland: 23% other: 16% (1993 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
12 nm Climate: tropical Terrain: NA Elevation extremes: lowest point : Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location 24 m Natural resources: negligible Land use: arable land: NA% permanent crops: NA% permanent pastures : NA% forests and woodland: NA% other: NA% Irrigated land: 0 sq km (1993)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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