...and when James and Cephas and John, who were acknowledged pillars, recognized the grace that had been given to me, they gave to... Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and the...y recognized him; and he vanished from their sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine-forest. The English mind disliked the French mind... because it was antagonistic, unreasonable, perhaps hostile, but recognized it as at least a thought. The American mind was not a thought at all; it was a convention, superficial, narrow, and ignorant; a mere cutting instrument, practical, economical, sharp and direct. The English themselves hardly conceived that their mind was either economical, sharp or direct; but the defect that most struck an American was its enormous waste in eccentricity. Americans needed and used their whole energy, and applied it with close economy; but English society was eccentric by law and for sake of the eccentricity itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknown ...in America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am that same willing girl and these two anklets... are the same two that went to men for sex. I am the one who's poor now among us womenfolk, our natural-born modesty being our wealth. So, when I straddled him, ashamed when my memory came back, I panicked and recognized my own slender body. First I gave up my masculine ways. Then I gave up on him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what doe...s he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be reco...gnized and is never seen again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination. When he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field, the ge...sture of the blade turning the earth was included in his own act. Wherever he looked he saw the labour of existence; and this labour, recognized as such, was what constituted reality for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have seen in my time two enormous extensions of the suffrage to men--one in America and one in England. But neither the negroes ...in the South nor the agricultural laborers in Great Britain had shown before they got the ballot any capacity of government; for they had never had the opportunity to take the first steps of political action. Very different has been the history of the march of women toward a recognized position in the State. We have had to prove our ability at each stage of progress, and have gained nothing without having satisfied a test of capacity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »