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[101] you; that ye be the sones of youre Fadir that is in hevenes, that makith his sunne to rise upon goode and yvele men, and reyneth
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long
But the latter may be suffered to remain, especially as Suetonius informs us that "Vespasian, not contented with renewing some taxes remitted under Galba, added new and heavy ones: and augmented the tributes paid by the provinces, even doubling some."—Life of Vesp.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus
“Yes, as far as I can see it is all tableland that way; the grass soon ends, and all is dusty sand with the air quivering over it as it sweeps away towards the mountain chain, while this way to the right the grass and trees seem to run up green and beautiful into the hills, which widen out into a valley.”
— from The Peril Finders by George Manville Fenn
"There is nothing so foolish as the way many of you English seem to regard us Germans as though we were wild beasts of prey.
— from The Double Traitor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
The family were aroused from their slumbers to receive unexpected guests, and to hold an unexpected consultation.
— from Model Women by William Anderson
[531] “Charity is the most perfect and consummate harmony, by which the soul in us becomes so harmonious in itself that it is attuned both to God and to all men equally, not only to friends but even to enemies; to this perfection we are drawn, impelled, invited by the Son of the almighty God, to raise us up to the likeness of the Father, ‘who maketh His sun to rise upon good and evil, and sends His rain upon the just and the unjust,’ uplifting us from the savage condition of life common to brutes and to the uncivilised, who love their friends and neighbours, but hate strangers and enemies.”
— from Giordano Bruno by J. Lewis (James Lewis) McIntyre
general philanthropy; “that we should love our very enemies, not be like brutes and barbarians, but transform ourselves after the image of Him who makes His sun to rise upon good and evil, and makes the rain of His mercies to fall upon just and unjust.
— from Giordano Bruno by J. Lewis (James Lewis) McIntyre
Mr. Mason was to settle his estate, pay all that was due to me over to Mr. Banker, my new guardian, and then settle the remainder upon Gus and Lillian, taking out, of course, my aunt's share as his widow.
— from The Last Cruise of the Spitfire; or, Luke Foster's Strange Voyage by Edward Stratemeyer
That the allegations, in regard to the sale of intoxicating liquors, to the Indians, by the regularly licensed traders of the United States, may not be supposed to rest upon gratuitous assumptions, the following letter, is [Pg 282] quoted, which places the matter beyond all question.
— from Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk by Benjamin Drake
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