If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye... When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague; but that I have all... the plagues of old age, and of a shattered carcase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper..., and magnifies it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age ...of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Public morning diversions were the last dissipating habit she obtained; but when that was accomplished, her time was squandered aw...ay, the power of reflection was lost, [and] her ideas were all centered in dress, drums, routs, operas, masquerades, and every kind of public diversion. Visionary schemes of pleasure were continually present to her imagination, and her brain was whirled about by such a dizziness that she might properly be said to labor under the distemper called the vertigo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body.... It behoves us therefore to keep the facility of that so...ul from distemper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were that enough, bone, blood, and sinew, The twisted brain, the fair-formed loin,... Groping for matter under the dog's plate, Man should be cured of distemper. For all there is to give I offer: Crumbs, barn, and halter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweethe...art, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »