... the virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave market...s, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at the... mercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental fo...rces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you get out on one of those lakes in a canoe like this, you do not forget that you are completely at the mercy of the wind, a...nd a fickle power it is. The playful waves may at any time become too rude for you in their sport, and play right over you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not generally remembered, if known, by the descendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their firs...t memorable winter in the New World, they had for neighbors a colony of French no further off than Port Royal (Annapolis, Nova Scotia) ... where, in spite of many vicissitudes, they had been for fifteen years.... Though these founders of Acadie endured no less than the Pilgrims, and about the same proportion of them ... died the first winter at St. Croix, 1604-1605, sixteen years earlier, no orator, to my knowledge, has ever celebrated their enterprise ... while the trials which their successors and descendants endured at the hands of the English have furnished a theme for both the historian and poet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv'd with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy nig...ht for me that follow'd, And else when I carous'd, or when my plans were accomplish'd, still I was not happy, But the day when I rose at dawn from the bed of perfect health, refresh'd, singing, inhaling the ripe breath of autumn,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither time ...nor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This good had full as bad a Consequence: The Book thus put in every vulgar hand,... Which each presum'd he best cou'd understand, The Common Rule was made the common Prey; And at the mercy of the Rabble lay. The tender Page with horney Fists was gual'd; And he was gifted most that loudest baul'd: The Spirit gave the Doctoral Degree: And every member of a Company Was of his Trade, and of the Bible free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young children make only the simple assumption: "This is life--you go along...." He stands ready to go along with whatever adults ...seem to want. He stands poised, trying to figure out what they want. The young child is almost at the mercy of adults--it is so important to him to please.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »