A full description of it is given in Poujoulat's Histoire de S. Augustin , i. 340, who says it was one of the most important towns of Numidia, eighteen leagues south of Hippo, and represented by the modern Ghelma. — from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
de Staël on, 359 , 5; Revolution, first watchword of, 114 , 12 Frenzy , effect of, compared with reason, 258 , 44 Fretting , vanity of, 69 , 2 Friend , a constant, 3 , 26; a, defined, 298 , 41; a desirable, 169 , 22; a faithful, Napoleon on, 5 , 30; a far-off, effect of tidings of, 423 , 50; a good, 6 , 41; a good, value of, 270 , 48; 505 , 16; a, love for, 30 , 29; a necessity for a man, 171 , 18; a reconciled, 17 , 43; a reserved, danger of, 472 , 2; a stranger, not an estranged, 29 , 2; a, to all, 146 , 61; a true, 513 , 20; a, value of, 384 , 30; a virtuous, casting off, 491 , 16; a, with world shut out, 386 , 20; an agreeable, Horace's preference for, 299 , 37; an imprudent, dangerous, 376 , 53; an old, not easily lost, 187 , 42; and his faults, 13 , 29; as nettle, not echo, 29 , 10; admonition of, value of, 419 , 21; difficulty of helping, in trivial matters, 315 , 46; {pg 597} essential to happiness, 289 , 5; everybody's, nobody's, 222 , 9; faithful and just to me, 149 , 24; from enemy, 97 , 8; great service of, 432 , 5; having no need of, 143 , 2; how to approach, 243 , 22; how to keep a new, 70 , 18; how to live with, 252 , 3; how to treat, 486 , 2; ignorant, danger from, 315 , 45; man to spurn as, 169 , 28; mindfulness of, when happy, 490 , 28; mistaken zeal for, 145 , 51; no, without fault, 207 , 25; only way to have, 446 , 26; only if proved, 301 , 55; only, self, 78 , 6; rule for choice of, 57 , 50; 80 , 26; rule in choosing a, 62 , 4; the candid, Canning's aversion to, 123 , 17; the service of a, 412 , 52; the, to trust, 499 , 4; the wounds of, 100 , 26; to be steadfast, 544 , 41; true, value of, 81 , 21; turned enemy, 398 , 4; want of true, misery of, 199 , 3; what most endears a, 314 , 18; who does not befriend, 149 , 39; who cannot bear foes, 149 , 38; who flatters and detracts, 405 , 42; who not needs, 157 , 44; without, no good enjoyable, 318 , 22; worth dying for, hard to find, 423 , 35; wronging, penalty of, 149 , 10; Zeno's definition of, 10 , 12 Friendly relations, how to keep up, 334 , 3 Friends , after wine-casks drained, 68 , 4; a hundred, not too many, 79 , 8; a necessity, 529 , 35; 538 , 13; a thousand, not too many, 150 , 28; absent, in the memory, 442 , 1; among, or enemies, 381 , 7; and enemies, 242 , 15; and foes, space for, 14 , 53; and their characteristics, 6 , 5-12, 41; and their purses, 124 , 12; being without, 42 , 29; better than grateful dependants, 200 , 29; but a name, 308 , 45; by choice, 235 , 16; choice and change of, 28 , 25; community among, 45 , 26; created by transactions, 473 , 36; dead, a magnet to next world, 75 , 6; Emerson on his, 288 , 7; essential to enjoyment, 318 , 22; failings of, how to treat, 85 , 36; faithful, falling out of, 427 , 11; false, 100 , 41, 42; 398 , 11; feeling at misfortune of, 53 , 7; good, man good, 566 , 29; grapple, to thy soul, 429 , 28; hard task to make, of all, 327 , 55; having many, 321 , 35; how to choose, 185 , 29; in adversity, 13 , 28; 39 , 1; in distress, 514 , 15; in need, having, 143 , 2; indispensability of, 559 , 33; lightly cast off, 142 , 15; like fiddle-strings, 114 , 30; misfortunes of, not displeasing, 181 , 25; 190 , 12; mutual property, 12 , 60; no true, his who fears to make a foe, 153 , 14; not four, in world, 210 , 44; not to be suspected, 179 , 13; old, 327 , 14, 15; 361 , 39; old, best, 77 , 47; our, and our faults, 338 , 4; our estimate for, 96 , 57; preferable to wealth, 37 , 54; prudence of gaining, 202 , 11; real, the value of, 369 , 12; reticence with, 71 , 33; sayings about, 237 , 46, 47; test of, 329 , 21; thou hast, 482 , 31; three good, 148 , 46; true, hard to distinguish, 239 , 8; true, to one another, 499 , 51; wealth, 504 , 24; when wealth goes, 160 , 29; with change of fortune, 71 , 15 Friendship , a selfish, 104 , 45; compared with love, 114 , 49; a, that is binding, 315 , 11; a useless, 413 , 9; after love, 141 , 11; and little gifts, 219 , 38; and love, 254 , 3, 18; and love, incompatible, 253 , 42; and passion, contrasted, 6 , 11; and pity, incompatible, 348 , 49; as a pleasure, 246 , 36; attractive power of, 90 , 57; attributes of, 13 , 30-37; basis of, 350 , 19; being without, 479 , 45; belated, 470 , 38; by proxy, 311 , 7; chastity of, 384 , 5; comfort of, in adversity, 25 , 16; compared with hatred, 141 , 21; contrasted with love, 255 , 22; defined, 222 , 10; 377 , 11; despised, 182 , 16; double effect of, 481 , 30; effect of distance and absence in, 69 , 39; essence of, 425 , 39; experience of those who cultivate, 483 , 17; fate of, 568 , 40; faults notwithstanding, 11 , 47; female, growth of, 104 , 30; forgiving, 224 , 7; fruit of, 452 , 39; genuine, a test of, 413 , 8; gifts of, 511 , 24; grass on path of, 242 , 20; greatest blow to, 314 , 24; how kept green, 7 , 20; ideal of, 436 , 12; imperilled through money, 27 , 17; imperilled by pecuniary favours, 103 , 25; in dividing inheritance, 190 , 25; judgment before, 214 , 3; lasting, basis of, 170 , 30; light of, 439 , 11; no, without virtue, 392 , 46; not at too heavy a cost, 172 , 20; not based on feasting, 103 , 59; not to be cheap, 260 , 32; often due to weakness, 219 , 7; our, and charity, 337 , 22; that has to be constantly bought, 209 , 21; the claims of, 247 , 47; the first law in, 138 , 49; to be mutual, 168 , 21; tried in need, 128 , 37; true, 413 , 22; 499 , 52; 500 , 1-3; true, a feature of, 88 , 29; true, how possible, 163 , 1; true, indissoluble, 145 , 39; true, without ceremony, 38 , 24; unfitness for, 554 , 36; value of, 392 , 35; without weakness of, without strength of, 150 , 45 Friendships , broken, no repairing, 32 , 46; dissolved by silence or neglect, 286 , 5; for eternity, 284 , 1; new, not at expense of old, 317 , 26; not founded on affinities, 315 , 16; of years, the depth of, 337 , 44; schoolboy, 470 , 8; when real, 543 , 30 Frog , a, if it had teeth, 89 , 17 Frost , God's plough, 429 , 29 Froth , not beer, 382 , 18 Frugality , a small, often no economy, 12 , 35; an estate, 309 , 30; and fortune, 193 , 35; and parsimony, 558 , 39; with contentment, 70 , 13 Fruit , forbidden, 112 , 9; from labour, 324 , 28; late, keeps well, 230 , 38; present in the seed, 37 , 12; test of a tree, 116 , 42; the latest, ripens, 55 , 24; the worst, 474 , 48 Fruits , the test, 564 , 21 Fulness , all, here, 155 , 6; lapsing in, 494 , 3 Function defined, 3 , 52 Fury of a woman scorned, 154 , 3 Future , a form of, 519 , 5; a happy, predicted by George Sand, 433 , 13; a, open to all, 537 , 2; always to be provided for, 173 , 36; and past compared, 447 , 3; anxiety about, 71 , 30; concern for, bootless, 66 , 20; construed from past, 1 , 5; duty with regard to, 495 , 39; for whom, 234 , 38; greatness of, 440 , 19; how to face, without fear, 220 , 11; how to see farthest into, 528 , 13; how to treat, 501 , 15; ignorance of, 253 , 25; improvidence in regard to, 326 , 12; in the porch of, 429 , 40; judged of by past, 167 , 28; learned from past, 169 , 5; not our concern, 296 , 48; not to be desired, 165 , 40; not to be feared, 103 , 47; solicitude about, 399 , 16; state, effect of uncertainty regarding, 69 , 20, 50; thought of, elevating, 94 , 49; veiled by God, 359 , 23; what it hides, 67 , 21; wisely hidden, 384 , 47 Futurity , uncertainty regarding, 528 , 14 G Gaiety , a medium in, 477 , 46 Gain , at expense of credit, 52 , 47; effect of greed of, 183 , 19; lust of, 258 , 5; scent of, good, 257 , 42; unjust, 356 , 6; unjustly distributed, 77 , 53; worldly, and loss, 20 , 52 Gains , evil, losses, 271 , 31; light, profit of, 149 , 10; not all gains, 309 , 24; small, profit of, 219 , 34; unjust, instances of, 399 , 8 Galba , the emperor, Tacitus on, 260 , 9 Galileo and his "Yet it moves," 84, 12 Gall , a little, effect of, 505 , 33 Gallant , the, motive of, 386 , 18 Gambler , a young, 214 , 43 Gambling , and travelling, compared, 499 , 10; gain by, a loss, 551 , 23; {pg 598} nature of, 565 , 31; pedigree and progeny of, 233 , 37 Gamester , keep, from dice, 217 , 15 Gaming-table and fortune, 549 , 27 Garb , makes not the monk, 223 , 17 Garden , the first, 127 , 50 Gardener , business of, 494 , 39; grand old, and his wife, 116 , 35 Garibaldi to his soldiers, 397 , 11 Garrulousness , disesteem of, 484 , 36 Gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, 164 , 38 Gay , the, disliked by the sad, 324 , 5 Gear , gathering, for independence, 491 , 17 Geese for swans, 9 , 53 Gem , why so small, 19 , 49 Gems , valueless as food, 403 , 20 General , a, in prosperity, 370 , 17; a, the qualities of, 368 , 32; influence of good, on his men, 31 , 61; the best, 551 , 40 Generalising resented by Nature, 292 , 33 Generality , how to win over the, 491 , 12 Generalship in good fortune and bad, 73 , 37 Generation , cursing one's, 303 , 39; each, a duty laid on, 199 , 51 Generosity , after justice, 27 , 26; and justice combined, power of, 429 , 47; charm of, 129 , 31; easier than justice, 162 , 6; in train of high birth, 225 , 30; rare, 269 , 23; versus business, 169 , 12; virtue of a man, 163 , 40; with what is another's, 98 , 45 Geniality defined, 133 , 28 Genius , a characteristic of, 198 , 15; a common fate of, 510 , 27; ages of, superseded by theories of, 466 , 19; a fine, criticism of, generally false, 176 , 33; after the philosophic ideal, 405 , 43; always melancholy, 540 , 46; a mark of, 491 , 8, 15, 46; a necessity for triumph of, 48 , 65; and education, 77 , 11; and wit, functions respectively of, 53 , 36; and fortune's favours, 113 , 40; and taste, why seldom together, 554 , 45; and the world, 464 , 24; as such, unconscious, 169 , 47; at its rising, 377 , 31; a true, natural, 289 , 19; a truly great, mark of, 22 , 6; by outstripping reason, 239 , 6; capacity for patience, 233 , 28, 29; characteristics of, 492 , 36; connection of, with childhood, 90 , 24; contrasted with mediocrity, 272 , 3; contrasted with talent, 409 , 44, 45, 47 , 49, 50; 410 , 1; contrasted with wit, 223 , 4; dependent on attention, 22 , 13; defined, 195 , 20; 513 , 14; 546 , 4; distinctive mark of, 489 , 29; development of, condition of, 490 , 9; effect of adversity on, 194 , 10, 11; effect of prosperity on, 194 , 11; endowments peculiar to, 6 , 25; every great, and his vocation, 91 , 15; every work of, characteristic of, 93 , 53; fine, envy of, 207 , 31; great, how formed, 6 , 66; greatest, most indebted, 432 , 13; greatest works of, acquaintance with, 493 , 13; honour done to, 194 , 7; how often dumb, 269 , 10; human, its limitations, 333 , 44; idleness, the blight of, 5 , 20; in what its greatest power, 91 , 3; its indebtedness, 526 , 25; often without talent, 269 , 11; lamp of, 37 , 45; man of, how ruined, 217 , 18; man of, one consideration for every, 549 , 41; men of, all workers, 450 , 39; men of, as men of business, 276 , 5; men of, generosity of, 276 , 4; men of, in advance, 563 , 9; men of (see Men of Genius ); men of, two divisions of, 496 , 19; men of, unregarded, 176 , 4; mistake and regret of, 71 , 41; nature in league with, 280 , 52; no great, quite sane, 318 , 27; no lonely son of, to despair, 241 , 46; no, without madness, 472 , 50; noblest function of, 416 , 20; not attainable by labour alone, 315 , 47; not to be constrained and urged, 12 , 45; of light, 429 , 48; often hid under rude exterior, 21 , 48; often of slow growth, 268 , 19; often without talent, 269 , 11; on the summit of the ideal, 206 , 7; pith of, contracted, 395 , 17; privilege of, 206 , 41; selection a test of, 521 , 13; self-defended, 91 , 4; subject to gloom, 466 , 35; superior to intellect, 137 , 38; test of, 494 , 23; the bestower of, 494 , 3; the death of, 424 , 18; the first qualification of, 53 , 33; the great nursery of, 289 , 46; the highest, characterised, 434 , 39; the patrons of, 28 , 22; the power of, 190 , 44; the pride of, 400 , 33; the purpose of, 201 , 45; the school of, 47 , 42; the stern friend of, 397 , 29; the three requisitions of, 325 , 15; three things that enrich, 485 , 26; tendency of, to eccentricity, 76 , 32, 33; true, sign of, 22 , 4; 542 , 32; two kinds of, 468 , 35; unconsciously developed, 92 , 31; under misfortune, 379 , 24; vain sigh of, 488 , 50; versus talent, 54 , 32; warped by education, 77 , 21; what forms, 396 , 7; without a heart, 536 , 14; without moderation, 281 , 24; without power, 548 , 25; without taste, 380 , 17; without training, 78 , 7; works and words of, 474 , 47; work of, a child of solitude, 3 , 35 Geniuses , great, biographies of, 133 , 29; those that look like, 478 , 13 Genoese , proverb about, 450 , 1 Gentil man , according to Chaucer, 143 , 25 Gentility and vulgarity, 102 , 34 Gentle , world gentle to, 121 , 38; yet not dull, 484 , 11 Gentleman , a, characteristics of, 6 , 27, 28; a, outfit of, 137 , 11; a true, rare, 275 , 44; a questionable, 6 , 29; an original, 529 , 10; best dressed, 143 , 46; by nature, 149 , 37; contrasted with clown, 181 , 10; Horace's characteristics of, 86 , 42; how formed, 77 , 7; manners of, defined, 346 , 15; mark of, 49 , 4; sphere of, 81 , 3; the badge of a, 373 , 46; the best, 143 , 47; the first and the last, 199 , 13; the word of, 463 , 42 Gentlemen , rare, 520 , 35 Gentleness , antidote for cruelty, 22 , 2; commended, 400 , 33; connection of, with firmness, 205 , 22; more pleasing than strength, 283 , 33 Gentry , rabble amongst, 470 , 22 Genuine , hard to eliminate, 331 , 46; the, and the spurious, 536 , 15; the durability of, 519 , 20 Geologist , an antiquarian, 233 , 30 Geometry , road to, 474 , 17 German God, the, the temple of, 298 , 9 Gethsemane , victory of, attainable, 524 , 38 Getting , and getting by renouncing, 201 , 39; easier than keeping, 122 , 14; no, what we don't bring, 305 , 42 Ghost , a, never visible to two, 63 , 15; 302 , 1; raising one, effect of, 177 , 9 Ghosts , the only genuine, 473 , 39; whom they visit, 122 , 1 Giant , on the shoulders of, 37 , 55; strength of, tyrannous to use, 201 , 34 Giant's strength, how excellent, 326 , 2 Gift , a, dearer than a purchase, 535 , 47; a, in each for all, 57 , 17; a rare, 495 , 12; a, we can recei — from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources
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When we were both in a state of nature, exactly like Adam and Eve before they tasted the fatal apple, I placed her in the position of the portrait, and guessing my intention from my face she opened her arms for me to come to her; but I asked her to wait a moment, for I had a little packet too, which contained something she would like. — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
of nor eye look
Has there an explosion arisen, as many do arise, a confusion, unsightliness, which no tongue can speak of, nor eye look on; give it to Barrere; Barrere shall be Committee-Reporter of it; you shall see it transmute itself into a regularity, into the very beauty and improvement that was needed. — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
Arbiter hic igitur sumptus de lite iocosa Dicta Iovis firmat; gravius Saturnia iusto Nec pro materia fertur doluisse suique Iudicis aeterna damnavit lumina nocte, At pater omnipotens (neque enim licet inrita cuiquam Facta dei fecisse deo) pro lumine adempto Scire futura dedit poenamque levavit honore. 221. — from The Waste Land by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
of Norman extraction Laure
His mother was of Norman extraction, Laure de Poittevin, the sister of Alfred de Poittevin, Flaubert's dearest friend, a poet who died young. — from Ivory, Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
This is a word, sentence, or verse that reads the same both forwards and backwards—as, madam, level, reviver; live on no evil; love your treasure and treasure your love; you provoked Harry before Harry provoked you; servants respect masters when masters respect servants. — from Enquire Within Upon Everything
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Some of her novels of New England life, such as the Minister's Wooing , 1859, and the Pearl of Orr's Island , 1862, have a mild kind of interest, and contain truthful portraiture of provincial ways and traits; while later fictions of a domestic type, like Pink and White Tyranny and My Wife and I , are really beneath criticism. — from Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
By dint of thinking of nothing else, like a child, she ended by believing that the Eastern Review was no doubt forwarded to Albert’s lady-love. — from Albert Savarus by Honoré de Balzac
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