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of conduct his empirical character

In this manner of conduct his empirical character reveals itself, but in this again his intelligible character, the will in itself, whose determined phenomenon he is.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

one cannot have enough contempt

[19] )—For that sort of thing one cannot have enough contempt....
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

of cases he even chooses

In the majority of cases he even chooses a very early phase of his life, sometime a childhood phase, indeed, laughable as it may appear, a phase of his very suckling existence.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

only commenced his earthly career

"The Great Prophet" of Arabia (Mahomet) not only commenced his earthly career in a humble situation, but resembled Christ in having "nowhere to lay his head."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

our countrymen have even chosen

And in the most serious wars, our countrymen have even chosen the entire command to be deposited in the hands of some single chief, without a colleague; the very name of which magistrate indicates the absolute character of his power.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of course he encountered Carrie

Of course, he encountered Carrie through Mrs. Vance; but there was nothing responsive between them.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

of circumstances however extraordinary could

No change of circumstances, however extraordinary, could affect the one great anxiety which weighed on my mind while I was away from London.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

or connoisseur has ever come

The big thing in finish has been missed and I doubt if any artist or connoisseur has ever come upon this picture, now in the Metropolitan Museum, without a slight gasp at the false relation of color existing between the green wheat, the horses trampling through it and the sky above it.
— from Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Henry Rankin Poore

Ophirean closed her eyes cradling

Her arms about his iron neck, the Ophirean closed her eyes, cradling her dark curly head against his massive shoulder.
— from Shadows in the Moonlight by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

Of course his enemies cried

Of course his enemies cried turncoat; and it certainly looked like it.
— from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite by Geoffrey Chaucer

of consecration Hoc est corpus

The most sacred words of the old worship, the words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery as "Hocus-pocus.
— from History of the English People, Volume III The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540 by John Richard Green

other countries have escaped comparatively

In Great Britain, where so large a number of persons are devoted to the active concerns of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, and where these pursuits have, for so long a period, been undisturbed by the presence of war , which few other countries have escaped, comparatively little is known of the vicissitudes of active service, and of the casualties of climate, to which, even during peace, the British Troops are exposed in every part of the globe, with little or no interval of repose.
— from Historical record of the Seventeenth Regiment of Light Dragoons;—Lancers Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1759 and of its subsequent services to 1841. by Richard Cannon

only crime he ever committed

The only crime he ever committed in this case was to make that mistake.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

on composing his elegy copied

Abu 'l-Hasan, on composing his elegy, copied it out and threw it into one of the streets of Baghdad.
— from A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

of civilisation has ever consisted

And this consideration you see, gentlemen (to drop down at once upon the subject of discussion which has brought us together), invests the opening of the schools in arts [282] with a solemnity and moment of a peculiar kind, for we are but engaged in reiterating an old tradition, and carrying on those august methods of enlarging the mind, and cultivating the intellect and ripening the feelings, in which the process of civilisation has ever consisted.”— Dr Newman on Civilisation.
— from Tradition, Principally with Reference to Mythology and the Law of Nations by Arundell of Wardour, John Francis Arundell, Baron

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