... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of l...iving is bitterness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ...... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry "Heigh-ho for a ...husband!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New Yorkers speak more quickly and shift topics more rapidly. We all know that. But the way it's done is fascinating. At least it ...fascinated me when I first moved to New York. Someone has the floor and talks. As soon as I know what they are going to say, I can jump in, finish the sentence to show I understand, and take off into my own turn. The northern California I know isn't like that. Someone talks, and I lie back and listen and let them roll for a while. When they're done, there'll be a pause that will flash like a green light to announce that someone else can have the floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state mi...ght be composed of slaves, or the animal creation ... nor is it an alliance mutually to defend each other from injuries, or for a commercial intercourse.... But whosoever endeavors to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that the first care of him who would found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sophocles long ago Heard it on the Aegaean, and it brought... Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow Of human misery; we Find also in the sound a thought, Hearing it by this distant northern sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with v...irtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that... they cannot separately plunder a third.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies ...is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »