Now the birth of Jesus the Messiah took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been engaged to Joseph, but before they lived ...together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. Her husband Joseph, being a righteous man and unwilling to expose her to public disgrace, planned to dismiss her quietly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
George the first was an honest, dull, German gentleman, as unfit as unwilling to act the part of a king, which is to shine and to ...oppress. Lazy and inactive even in his pleasures, which were therefore lowly sensual. He was coolly intrepid, and indolently benevolent. He was diffident of his own parts, which made him speak little in public, and prefer in his social, which were his favourite, hours the company of wags and buffoons. Even his mistress, the duchess of Kendal, with whom he passed most of his time, and who had all influence over him, was very little above an idiot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man t...hat you think him silly, ignorant or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than it you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent--unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it--we perpetuate it within o...urselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and ...tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet do not I invite The wrinkled shopman to my sounding woods,... Nor bid the unwilling senator Ask votes of thrushes in the solitudes. Every one to his chosen work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most r...eligious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why is it that people refuse, or are unwilling, to go back to a place where once they have been happy? If you ask them, they will ...say that they do not want to spoil a beautiful memory, or that nothing can ever be the same (a wonderful thing can only happen once!).... Actually I think they may feel afraid that they will be disillusioned, if indeed they have had to convince themselves that a privately dull or ugly event was indeed a glamourous one. Or they may suspect that they are less attractive than they wanted to be, or that the other people are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Reporters for tabloid newspapers beat a path to the park entrance each summer when the national convention of nudists is held, but... the cult's requirement that visitors disrobe is an obstacle to complete coverage of nudist news. Local residents interested in the nudist movement but as yet unwilling to affiliate make observations from rowboats in Great Egg Harbor River.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »