Across Parker Avenue from the fort is the Site of the Old Gallows, where 83 men "stood on nothin', a-lookin' up a rope." The platf...orm had a trap wide enought to "accommodate" 12 men, but half that number was the highest ever reached. On two occasions six miscreants were executed. There were several groups of five, some quartets and trios.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin--a la...nguage with which it has precious little in common. In Latin, to take one example, it is not possible to split an infinitive. So in English, the early authorities decided, it should not be possible to split an infinitive either. But there is no reason why we shouldn't, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans. Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. It is a patent absurdity. But once this insane notion became established, grammarians found themselves having to draw up ever more complicated and circular arguments to accommodate the inconsistencies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We accept and welcome ... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration... of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, as... it is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. ...This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I stopped reading movie magazines in the beauty parlor a couple of years ago because I could not accommodate any more information ...about something called the Lennon Sisters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero...; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Profundity easily turns into dullness and astuteness deteriorates into wit. Be guided by natural common sense and it will accommod...ate great and small.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry, and Picture, are Arts of a like nature; and both are busie about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, Poetry wa...s a speaking Picture, and Picture a mute Poesie. For they both invent, faine, and devise many things, and accommodate all they invent to the use, and service of nature. Yet of the two, the Pen is more noble, than the Pencill. For that can speake to the Understanding; the other, but to the Sense.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »