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of a magistrate created

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind, as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate created and circumstanced as would be a President of the United States.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

of a man considering

His position may be compared to that of a man considering jumping across a ditch.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

origin and main circulation

Observe that the most impudent slanders, low insults, &c., on the great revolutionary authors, leaders, poets, &c., of Europe, have their origin and main circulation in certain circles here.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

of a man control

The falling of a pebble may, for aught we know, extinguish the sun; or the wish of a man control the planets in their orbits.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

of a moderate competency

My father’s share of a moderate competency, which was divided among fifteen children, being very trivial, his business of a watchmaker (in which he had the reputation of great ingenuity) was his only dependence.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Of all men call

They left the city, and the one Who ignorant was [was] soon undone, And met all men's contempt; whilst he Who knew the sciences was free Of all men call society.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

opened and Monte Cristo

The door opened, and Monte Cristo, turning round, saw Albert, pale and trembling, followed by Beauchamp and Château-Renaud.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

of a master captain

I would have sailed with her, answered he, and been landed at the first port in England or Ireland, I cared not which, they should put in at; but she was too full of apprehensions to admit it; And the rough fellow of a master, captain they called him, (but, in my mind, I could have thrown him overboard,) would not stay a moment, the wind and tide being quite fair; and was very urgent with me to go a-shore, or to go the voyage; and being impetuous in my temper, (spoiled, you know, my dear, by my mother,) and not used to control, I thought it very strange that wind or tide, or any thing else, should be preferred to me and my money:
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

OF A MIXED CHARACTER

CHAPTER V. SEVERAL OPERATIONS OF A MIXED CHARACTER, WHICH ARE PARTLY IN THE DOMAIN OF STRATEGY AND PARTLY OF TACTICS.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

officers and my corps

“On leaving the army of the Duc d’Angouleme after the capitulation,” says Jean Saunier, “I went with my officers and my corps to Saint-Jean-des-Anels.
— from Massacres of the South (1551-1815) Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

out a more comfortable

But the passion for fineries in woman is naturally so strong that the modern Gadaba woman is now taking the liberty of putting cotton thread for the woof and ankudu fibre for the warp, and thus is able to turn out a more comfortable and finer cloth.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

of a man crushed

He had the aspect of a man crushed by misery.
— from Flower of the Gorse by Louis Tracy

of a mixed committee

There were, of course, flowers to be bought and arranged tant bien que mal in empty ink-stands, a conceit of Joan's, who refused to spend the fund money in any ornament less serious, while she quite recognized the necessity for flowers on the table of a mixed committee.
— from Roden's Corner by Henry Seton Merriman

of a mighty chain

For look you, the links of a mighty chain had their origin on the steps of the Stadhuis, for it is at the foot of these that three men were standing precisely at the moment when the bell of the cathedral struck the penultimate hour of the last day of the year 1623.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

on a most consequential

Jack having adjusted his great tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles, and put on a most consequential air, inquired, like a gambling-house keeper, if they were 'All done'—had all 'made their game?'
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

of a modern constitutional

But every king of a modern constitutional state is, willy-nilly, that.
— from Comedies and Errors by Henry Harland

out a man creeping

A little after ten the moon rose, but it was full eleven o'clock before the Corporal heard the bushes rustle, and at last made out a man creeping cautiously alongside the hedge.
— from The Drummer's Coat by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

of a marshal Commit

"Name it, and I will no sooner have become in fact as well as name the sovereign of France than you shall receive the bâton of a marshal," "Commit M. d'Ancre to the Bastille, Sire.
— from The Life of Marie de Medicis, Queen of France, Consort of Henri IV, and Regent of the Kingdom under Louis XIII — Volume 2 by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

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