At our second meeting, I learned that there was some objection to the existence of the Sabbath school; and, sure enough, we had scarcely got at work— good work , simply teaching a few colored children how to read the gospel of the Son of God—when in rushed a mob, headed by Mr. Wright Fairbanks and Mr. Garrison West—two class-leaders — from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
spite of the terrible effects of this
Nevertheless, in spite of the terrible effects of this contagious malady, is it not in Paris that exist the most delightful women in France? — from On Love by Stendhal
sex only that the exercises of the
Thus the young ladies are as much ashamed of being cowards and fools as the men, and despise all personal ornaments, beyond decency and cleanliness: neither did I perceive any difference in their education made by their difference of sex, only that the exercises of the females were not altogether so robust; and that some rules were given them relating to domestic life, and a smaller compass of learning was enjoined them: for their maxim is, that among peoples of quality, a wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young. — from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift
shadow of the throne even of the
And if it be the will of God that thou shalt be deprived of thy daughter, do not thou tarry, old man, in this land of bloodshed and cruelty; but betake thyself to Cordova, where thy brother liveth in safety, under the shadow of the throne, even of the throne of Boabdil the Saracen; for less cruel are the cruelties of the Moors unto the race of Jacob, than the cruelties of the Nazarenes of England.” — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
so on to the end of the
In the first, fig. 855 , the needle must always be carried, first over, then under two threads in a diagonal line and so on to the end of the row. — from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont
so on to the end of the
And so on to the end of the long register, all toiling together in the galling fetters of the tenement. Were the question raised who makes the most of life thus mortgaged, who resists most stubbornly its levelling tendency—knows how to drag even the barracks upward a part of the way at least toward the ideal plane of the home—the palm must be unhesitatingly awarded the Teuton. — from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
stretching out to the east of the
The rooms were shut up, the lodgers almost all gone, scarcely any family but of the residents left; and, as there is nothing to admire in the buildings themselves, the remarkable situation of the town, the principal street almost hurrying into the water, the walk to the Cobb, skirting round the pleasant little bay, which, in the season, is animated with bathing machines and company; the Cobb itself, its old wonders and new improvements, with the very beautiful line of cliffs stretching out to the east of the town, are what the stranger's eye will seek; and a very strange stranger it must be, who does not see charms in the immediate environs of Lyme, to make him wish to know it better. — from Persuasion by Jane Austen
section on the transcendental exercise of the
But with respect to the questions how they make experience possible, and what are the principles of the possibility thereof with which they present us in their application to phenomena, the following section on the transcendental exercise of the faculty of judgement will inform the reader. — from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
something of the triumphant energy of the
In so far as it may communicate something of the triumphant energy of the artist who has become master of the ugly and the repulsive; [Pg 245] or in so far as it gently excites our lust of cruelty (in some circumstances even the lust of doing harm to ourselves, self-violence, and therewith the feeling of power over ourselves). 803. "Beauty" therefore is, to the artist, something which is above all order of rank, because in beauty contrasts are overcome, the highest sign of power thus manifesting itself in the conquest of opposites; and achieved without a feeling of tension: — from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
so on to the end of the
Directing your needle to the right, pass it diagonally over a double cross of the warp and woof of the canvas, and so on to the end of the line. — from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont
If the hand be inclined very gently and slowly, so that the frog would naturally tend to slip off, the creature’s fore paws are shifted on to the edge of the hand, until he can just prevent himself from falling. — from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan
In spite of the transient eclipses of the star of the Republic since the beginning of this century, in spite of the disappointment of which we were the victims in 1830, in spite of all the trials which we, and our children, perhaps, have yet to undergo, the future of the world belongs to the principle of Democracy. — from The Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic
A Tale of The French Revolution by Eugène Sue
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