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Literary notes about Continuance (AI summary)

The term "continuance" appears in literature as a versatile expression of duration and sustained existence, often loaded with both temporal and philosophical implications. In reflective essays and philosophical texts, authors like Addison and Steele [1] and Plato [2, 3] use the term to emphasize the enduring value or necessity of life and its qualities, suggesting that what persists holds intrinsic worth. Political and social commentators, such as Herzl [4] and Rousseau [5, 6, 7], invoke "continuance" to describe the maintenance of institutions or traditions, underscoring its role in both economic and societal frameworks. In narrative literature, examples from Austen [8, 9, 10] and Wharton [11] illustrate how continuance can mark a fleeting moment or a lingering presence, thereby evoking complex emotional responses about change and permanence. Even in military or strategic contexts, authors like Clausewitz [12, 13] and Tacitus [14] employ the term to underline the persistence or inevitable recurrence of actions, further demonstrating its broad applicability across genres.
  1. There is nothing which must end to be valued for its Continuance.
    — from The Spectator, Volume 1 by Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele
  2. The pleasure of eating is necessary in two ways; it does us good and it is essential to the continuance of life?
    — from The Republic of Plato by Plato
  3. The pleasure of eating is necessary in two ways; it does us good and it is essential to the continuance of life?
    — from The Republic by Plato
  4. Industrialists will be able to make use of centralized labor agencies, which will only receive a commission large enough to ensure their continuance.
    — from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
  5. Perhaps you only understood it as a way of restraining your pleasures to secure their continuance.
    — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  6. This was especially true of those who sighed for power and despaired of getting it through the continuance of a Federalist party.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  7. The continuance of such an injustice could not but prove the undoing of the body politic.
    — from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  8. At that moment Catherine thought she heard her step in the gallery, and listened for its continuance; but all was silent.
    — from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  9. It was on the wedding-day of this beloved friend that Emma first sat in mournful thought of any continuance.
    — from Emma by Jane Austen
  10. A continuance in a place where everything reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind.
    — from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  11. The morrow, rising on an apparent continuance of the same conditions, revealed nothing of what had occurred between the confronted pair.
    — from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  12. THUS A CONTINUANCE OF ACTION WILL ENSUE WHICH WILL ADVANCE TOWARDS A CLIMAX.
    — from On War by Carl von Clausewitz
  13. FIRMNESS denotes the resistance of the will in relation to the force of a single blow, STAUNCHNESS in relation to a continuance of blows.
    — from On War by Carl von Clausewitz
  14. Vettius Bolanus, 77 succeeding during the continuance of the civil wars, was unable to introduce discipline into Britain.
    — from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

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