The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be d...ictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, ...who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They that goe downe to 'th sea in ships: Their busines there to doo... In waters great. The Lords work see, I'th deep his wonders too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Americans are violently oral.... That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all--isn'...t respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that "the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look a...t it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anestheti...c: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not h...urt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd rea...d, I started relying on the expert advice of other mothers--especially those with sons a few years older than mine. This great body of knowledge is essentially an oral history, because anyone engaged in motherhood on a daily basis has no time to write an advice book about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »