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Did the Egyptian people ever rebel, I wonder?
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal
(It must be remembered, however, that the equal is not in the same case as regards Justice and Friendship: for in strict Justice the exactly proportioned equal ranks first, and the actual numerically equal ranks second, while in Friendship this is exactly reversed.)
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle
Ware a defective condition of the goods ein materieller Vorteil material advantage ein Mittel zur a means of ein Möbelstück piece of furniture ein Muster entnehmen to retain a sample ein namentlich genannter Frachtführer a named carrier ein namentlich genanntes Schiff a named vessel ein neues Verfahren anwenden apply a new technique ein Pfand einlösen redeem a pledge ein Plakat ankleben to stick a bill ein Produkt auf den Markt bringen launch a product ein Projekt aufgeben abandon a project ein Rat piece of advice ein realisierbares Vorhaben practicable scheme ein Recht erwerben to acquire a right ein reiches Angebot an Ware a wide variety of goods ein reines begebbares Konnossement a clean negotiable B/L ein reines in ein unreines Konnossement a clean into an unclean B/L ein reines Transportdokument a clean transport document ein Risiko auf
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
Or if they keep their wits, yet they are esteemed scrubs and fools by reason of their carriage: after seven years' study ———statua, taciturnius exit, Plerumque et risum populi quatit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Libris et curis statua taciturnius exit, Plerunque et risu populum quatit, Hor. ep.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
In the earliest period each reigned in turn as the supreme; a god is supreme not because he is essentially the greatest of the gods, but because circumstances have brought him to the front.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies
Even if there were no relationship, what opportunity could be more fit for presenting to capital a locality that even produced engagement rings, and, as Jim Fauquier put it, "the men ez knew how to keep 'em."
— from Found at Blazing Star by Bret Harte
In every village the clergy were busied in keeping up the excitement, promising eternal rewards to those who assumed the red cross, and fulminating the most awful denunciations against all the worldly-minded who refused or even hesitated.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay
If the wheel is exactly balanced, however, and every part of precisely the same weight, so as to ensure perfectly even running on the shaft, the danger of bursting will be small.
— from Life in a Railway Factory by Alfred Williams
None of them except Panama escaped revolutionary uprisings, though the loss of life and property was insignificant.
— from The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors by William R. (William Robert) Shepherd
Then I realized that every person, every race, and every nation, and every color of mankind have their faults as well as their virtues, weak points as well as strong and good ones.
— from Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines by John Stuart Thomson
Its religious organization was some [i.243] what peculiar; and, although instituted by a particular arrangement made by the General Court, was, in one or two features, a complete departure from the ecclesiastical polity elsewhere rigidly enforced.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham
But the important side of the phenomenon was, that each plant exactly "recollected" from which parent it had sprung.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
Puccini takes the same French story and gives us a moving lyric drama, which is on a far broader plane, is essentially human and common to every place, every race and all time, since it deals with purely elemental passions.
— from Giacomo Puccini by Wakeling Dry
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