Troops had been ordered to move from Ironton to Cape Girardeau, sixty or seventy miles to the south-east, on the Mississippi River; while the forces at Cape Girardeau had been ordered to move to Jacksonville, ten miles out towards Ironton; and troops at Cairo and Bird's Point, at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, were to hold themselves in readiness to go down the Mississippi to Belmont, eighteen miles below, to be moved west from there when an officer should come to command them. — from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
And as I advise parents to think nothing more important than the education of their children, so I maintain that it must be a sound and healthy education, and that our sons must be kept as far as possible from vulgar twaddle. — from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch
of sacred madness
Shriek of horror rose, instantly quenching all other effervescence, at sight of the clear murderous steel; whereupon Duperret returned it to the leather again;—confessing that he did indeed draw it, being instigated by a kind of sacred madness, "sainte fureur," and pistols held at him; but that if he parricidally had chanced to scratch the outmost skin of National Representation with it, he too carried pistols, and would have blown his brains out on the spot. — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
Hippocrates (iii. 117) says: [Pg 134] ‘In those cases of fracture in which the bones protrude and cannot be restored to their place, the following mode of reduction may be practised: pieces of steel (σιδήρια) are to be prepared like the levers (οἱ μοχλοί) which the cutters of stone make use of, one being rather broader and the other narrower, and there should be at least three, or even more, so that you may use those that suit best, and then along with extension we must use these as levers, applying the under surface of the piece of iron to the under fragment of bone, and the upper surface to the upper bone, and in a word we must operate powerfully with the lever as we would do upon a stone or a log. — from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
For indeed she had come to grave domestic seditions, and from that to social wars, and by and by to civil wars, and had enfeebled and worn herself out so much, that the changed state of the republic, in which she should be governed by kings, was now imminent. — from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
only surprised me
This invitation, coming as it did from the City Council, the state officers, and all the substantial citizens of both races of the community where I had spent my boyhood, and from which I had gone a few years before, unknown, in poverty and ignorance, in quest of an education, not only surprised me, but almost unmanned me. — from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
of society most
The Friar in general became the common butt of literary satire; and though the populace still remained true to its favourite guides, a reaction was taking place in favour of the secular as against the regular clergy in the sympathies of the higher classes, and in the spheres of society most open to intellectual influences. — from Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
or solemn marriage
But that they should, as they increased in numbers, wealth, and importance, demand admission into the political society, religious or solemn marriage, a voice in the government, and the faculty of holding civil and military offices, was only in the order of regular development. — from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson
Grant of St. Mary’s Lands to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster; the Manor of Knightsbridge and Westbourn; the Manor of Notting-Barns; Purchase and Bequest of this Manor by the Countess of Richmond; Property of Lord Sands and Thomas Hobson purchased by the Crown; Elizabeth Massey; Inquisition, shewing that the Manor of Notting Barns was a portion of the Parish of Paddington; Westbourn purchased by Henry the VIII, of Robert White; other Lands purchased by the Crown; Westbourn and other Lands sold to Dr. Thomas Hues, and left by him to Merton College, Oxford; Description of a portion of this property, once in the possession of Lord Sands, and belonging to Chelsea Manor—but forming no part of Chelsea Parish; What has become of Dr. Hues’s bequest? — from Paddington: Past and Present by William Robins
of six months
We leave England to-morrow, and shall sleep (D.V.) at 102 Rue de Grenelle, Faubourg St. Germain, Paris ,—I am afraid in a scarcely convenient apartment, which a zealous friend, in spite of our own expressed opinion, secured for us for the term of six months, because of certain yellow satin furniture which only she could consider 'worthy of us.' — from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My dear wife lost about that time two brothers in early life by what we call accidents; but, worse still, while I was from home one summer, my beloved mother, who lived with me, set fire to her muslin dress, while the servant was absent, and immediately became enveloped in flames. — from Recollections of a Long Life by John Stoughton
"That's one reason we always try to fix it so that mink, otter, muskrats, fisher, and all animals that are trapped along the edge of streams manage to drown themselves soon after they are caught. — from With Trapper Jim in the North Woods by Lawrence J. Leslie
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