To motorists bound to or from the Jersey shore, Perth Amboy consists of five traffic lights that sometimes tie up week-end traffic... for miles. While cars creep along or come to a prolonged halt, drivers lean out to discuss with each other this red menace to freedom of the road.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But to consider this Subject in its most ridiculous Lights, Advertisements are of great Use to the Vulgar: First of all, as they a...re Instruments of Ambition. A Man that is by no Means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the Advertisements.... A Second Use which this Sort of Writings have been turned to of late Years, has been the Management of Controversy, insomuch that above half the Advertisements one meets with now-a-Days are purely Polemical.... The Third and last Use of these Writings is, to inform the World where they may be furnished with almost every Thing that is necessary for Life. If a Man has Pains in his Head, Cholicks in his Bowels, or Spots in his Clothes, he may here meet with proper Cures and Remedies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the whole of h...imself, as he worships or gets married. A man ought to vote with his head and heart, his soul and stomach, his eye for faces and his ear for music; also (when sufficiently provoked) with his hands and feet. If he has ever seen a fine sunset, the crimson colour of it should creep into his vote.... The question is not so much whether only a minority of the electorate votes. The point is that only a minority of the voter votes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How could it be so fair, and you away? How could the Trees be beauteous, Flowers so gay?... Could they remember but last year, How you did Them, They you delight, The sprouting leaves which saw you here, And call'd their Fellows to the sight, Would, looking round for the same sight in vain, Creep back into their silent Barks again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creep ...into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their sou...ls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... should one sit down to paint the scenes among which he has grown, he will find that the facts creep in upon him. Those brillia...nt phases and shapes which the imagination sees in far-off lands are not for him to portray. Sadly he must squeeze the colour from his brush, and dip it into the grey pigments around him. He must paint what lies before him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The City is of Night, but not of Sleep; There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain;... The pitiless hours like years and ages creep,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its... sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »