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«The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shows it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.»
«Soul of the Age! / The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage! / My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by / Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie / A little further, to make thee a room; / Thou art a monument without a tomb.»
«Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren? / And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.»
«Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.»
«Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war; for sure I am, if this country is preserved in tranquillity twenty years longer, it may bid defiance, in a just cause, to any power»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Justice,
Self-respect
| Keywords:
bid, defiance, for sure, involve, Just Cause, Just War, Long War, national, preserved, self respect, tranquillity
«Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
Amid, awful, bid, brothers, daring, Death of, destinies, in chorus, Lent, note, once more, orchestra, Orchestras, the Chorus, The Passion, trumpeting, trumpets, unseen
«Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Commerce,
Ideas
| Keywords:
bid, cheap, clearance, clearance sale, commerce, dirt, dirt cheap, just in, sale, veritable, wander
«Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,For in this rapture I shall surely speakThe thing I shall repent.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bid, rapture, raptures, repent, The Rapture