But I hope your poor little white mother knows that you're tucked in a soft basket with a bottle of milk as rich as Morgan allows instead of perishing by inches with old Meg Conover.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
As, therefore, no one will deny that these are all descended from that one man, so all the races which are reported to have diverged in bodily appearance from the usual course which nature generally or almost universally preserves, if they are embraced in that definition of man as rational and mortal animals, unquestionably trace their pedigree to that one first father of all.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
They know well enough the good tone it produces in a man-of-war, and they overlook many a rebuff and many a failing on the part of a gentleman.
— from A Middy's Recollections, 1853-1860 by Victor Alexander Montagu
Conversations with Mr Frederic Harrison and others led to meetings of those who were sympathetic with what might be called a non-aggression policy, and Spencer was so keenly interested that in spite of forebodings he undertook some organising work, and even went the length of moving a resolution and making a speech at a public meeting.
— from Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
But most men differ about their breeding: some say they breed by generation, as other fish do; and others, that they breed, as some worms do, of mud; as rats and mice, and many other living creatures, are bred in Egypt, by the sun's heat when it shines upon the overflowing of the river Nilus; or out of the putrefaction of the earth, and divers other ways.
— from The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
I should have expected a better written letter, and objections more acutely raised and more ably put from him, but he only affords a proof that men who may be brimful of drollery, and able to keep the table in a roar from morning to night, may be utterly unfit to handle serious subjects when their reasoning faculties bear no proportion to their imaginative.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville
Here it is further argued that, at least in a certain respect 52 , in spite of my absolute reason and my absolute freedom, I can only be fully real as a part of Nature:
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You will then become as parts of myself, and remain as my attendants to grace my residence; till at last we return to the supreme at the end of time, and be absorbed in last Omega of all.
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki
Thus the poison of the snake, and the blight of his venom on many a reputation and many a womanly heart, is all forgotten in the drawing-room, because of the fascination of his hiss and the glitter of his skin.
— from Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
—Of many a race, and many a name, But all ablaze with one white flame, They tarried not to count the cost, But came.
— from 'All's Well!' by John Oxenham
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