The baggage occupied the middle or widest part of the canoe. We also paddled by turns in the bows, now sitting with our legs exten...ded, now sitting upon our legs, and now rising upon our knees; but I found none of these positions endurable, and was reminded of the complaints of the old Jesuit missionaries of the torture they endured from long confinement in constrained positions in canoes, in their long voyages from Quebec to the Huron country; but afterwards I sat on the cross-bars, or stood up, and experienced no inconvenience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've spoiled Jemima in more ways than one. She's got so she turns in at every house... As if she had some sort of curvature, No matter if I have no errand there. She thinks I'm sociable. I maybe am.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time is bearing another son. Kill Time! She turns in her pain!... The oak is felled in the acorn And the hawk in the egg kills the wren.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fold up the banners! Smelt the guns! Love rules, Her gentler purpose runs.... A mighty mother turns in tears The pages of her battle years, Lamenting all her fallen sons!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative... dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innoc...ence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.... He must not be afraid to return again and... again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand--like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery--in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A machine is characterized by sustained, autonomous action. It is set up by human hands and then is more or less set loose from hu...man control. It is designed to come between man and nature, to affect the natural world without requiring or indeed allowing humans to come into contact with it. Such is the clock, which abstracts the measurement of time from the sun and the stars: such is the steam engine, which turns coal into power to move ships or pump water without the intervention of human muscles. A tool, unlike a machine, is not self-sufficient or autonomous in action. It requires the skill of a craftsman and, when handled with skill, permits him to reshape the world in his way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to ju...stice and to right for the conservation of its interests.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »