Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing t...heir Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument ...at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... today we round out the first century of a professed republic,--with woman figuratively representing freedom--and yet all free,... save woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then did they strive with emulation who should repeat most wise maxims importing the necessity of suspicion in the choice of our f...riends--such as "mistrust is the mother of security," with many more to the same effect.... But notwithstanding the esteem which they professed for suspicion, yet did they think proper to veil it under the name of caution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had fathered every folly, every sin. No goat knew gluttony like his, no cat had felt his pride, no crow his avarice. He had sai...d the psalm against envy, the psalm against anger, the psalm against sloth and the loss of hope, but they were no defense.... Without moderation or charity, without relish or enthusiasm, he'd led a wanton, heedless, selfish life. In meanness, in darkness and squalor of spirit, he had passed his time. Faithless he'd professed a faith. Faithlessly, he'd preached.... Even now he made himself a monster, overblew his vices so his charge would lack conviction. Was that not the mark of a monster?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fash...ion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume had he professed to be writing a Novel. The latter form of composition is presumed to aim at a very minute fidelity, not merely to the probable and ordinary course of man's experience. The former--while, as a work of art, it must rigidly subject itself to laws, and while it sins unpardonably so far as it may swerve aside from the truth of the human heart--has fairly a right to present that truth under circumstances, to a great extent, of the writer's own choosing or creation. If he thinks fit, also, he may so manage his atmospherical medium as to bring out or mellow the lights and deepen and enrich the shadows of the picture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge.... The modern university looks forward..., and is a factory of new knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by ...the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This, indeed, has always been the fate of the few that have professed scepticism, that, when they have done what they can to discr...edit their senses, they find themselves, after all, under a necessity of trusting to them. Mr. Hume has been so candid as to acknowledge this; and it is no less true of those who have shewn the same candour; for I never heard that any sceptic runs his head against a post, or stepped into a kennel, because he did not believe his eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at anything which professed to make him rejoice; a gentleman of all temperance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »