Literary notes about Advance (AI summary)
Throughout literature, "advance" is employed with a variety of meanings that extend beyond its simple definition of moving forward. At times, it captures a literal progression—armies and travelers moving ahead or crossing obstacles, as in the military maneuvers described where forces “advance” towards their objectives ([1], [2], [3]). In other contexts it implies preparatory action, whether referring to payments made ahead of time ([4], [5], [6]) or the foreknowledge of events, as when one is warned of impending changes ([7], [8]). The term further conveys abstract progress, encapsulating intellectual or spiritual development and the establishment of new ideas ([9], [10], [11]). Thus, its varied deployment underscores both physical movement and anticipatory or metaphorical growth within literary narratives ([12], [13]).
- But it was only a few feet advance they sought to gain.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville - Thereupon Magallanes ordered the ships ‘San Antonio’ and the ‘Concepcion’ to go in advance in order to explore the strait.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 by Antonio Pigafetta - You command only my advance guard, and have no right to arrange an armistice without my order.
— from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy - He shewed me a very nice one at a Louis a month, and I paid in advance.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - One woman, when I wrote—a tactful letter, you know—asking her to explain her social position to me, replied that she would pay the rent in advance.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. Forster - She gave me the address, and I went there on the spot, and having found everything to my liking I paid a month in advance and the thing was done.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - My own opinion is that we should begin our sovereignty by promising to all our acquaintances in advance a whole year's amnesty for sins of every kind.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Young people should know this truth in advance.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - 1150 As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
— from Life and LiteratureOver two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers,and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson - In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - —The greatest advance in medicine during the past generation has been in the fields of hygiene and preventive medicine.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess - By thought man also develops and arranges artificial signs to remind him in advance of consequences, and of ways of securing and avoiding them.
— from How We Think by John Dewey