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And, thirdly, is it not a maxim also, that, even during the attempt to terminate the dispute, the public mind should be prepared?
They indicate that this is the guest tent, and there are a few little maxims traced upon it, extolling the virtues of hospitality.
The maxim that correct drawing lies at the foundation of all true art was maintained by the Brotherhood through both precept and example.
There is an old maxim which teaches, that through respect for the giver, we should not give, barter or sell away a present.
My maxim is, there are always low fellows enough to shoot one another, and never come trespassing among the manors of their betters.
They passed through or up wide valleys, forded rivers carrying the maxim, and clambered over bare hills and plunged into deep, dark forests.
"Never allow yourself to be surprised, and then you won't be," is the homely way in which one traveler has clothed the maxim.
He is an instance of the great imbecility of intellectual powers, when once they spurn the dictates of prudence, and the maxims of life.
I soon overcame the fear which attended my first experiments in society, and by scrupulously observing the paternal maxims, I soon became very self-satisfied.
In this final clause the Apostle, in some sense, repeats the maxim with which he began the series of special exhortations in this chapter.
Until he left off drinking fermented liquors altogether, he acted on the maxim "claret for boys, port for men, brandy for heroes."
After the Star-Chamber was abolished in the 10th of Charles I., its authority indeed ceased, but its maxims subsisted and survived it.
Cecil's despatch of business was extraordinary; his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."
It is an invariable maxim that words which add nothing to the sense or to the clearness must diminish the force of the expression.
It turns on an abstruse maxim of law, which makes it necessary for us to take a very circuitous mode of doing a very plain thing.
This accords with the conduct they have hitherto observed, and with maxims of policy long adopted and persevered in by this Court.
Accordingly, they set themselves about it, making use of the Roman maxim, (faith is not to be kept with heretics) to obtain their ends.
And this new softness of Kitty's, this timid opening of the heart, this new, awkward unselfishness, these pathetic little maxims of conduct!
The maxim here is that they need no instruction; to instill into them a sentiment of fear is the only moral nature suitable to their condition.
They had been holding the line splendidly, despite shrapnel and maxim fire and rifles, and had repulsed several attacks by the enemy.
Why is this maxim preached, when the entire conduct of society expresses in terms which cannot be misunderstood, a bold denial of its truth?
A book like this, genially discursive but replete with wise maxims and instructive narratives about mountain craft, is eminently readable for the right reader.
Even an inclination to what is right (e.g., to beneficence), though it may much facilitate the efficacy of the moral maxims, cannot produce any.
A book like this, genially discursive but replete with wise maxims and instructive narratives about mountain craft, is eminently readable for the right reader.
However, to do as we would be done by, in order that we may be done by as we would, transforms moral precept into prudential maxim.
It contained, we may probably suppose, the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings.
We are determined to follow the revered maxims of our predecessor, and to load with even more abundant benefits those whom he most kindly defended.
More insular than the French or English, they are only just commencing to realize the political value of our national maxim: "It pays to advertise."
The most stirring general appeal to the emotions, to be effective for more than negative purposes, must lead up to definite maxims and specific precepts.
It is not our business to conjecture what new maxim is to make the bones of sages and patriots stir on the 1st of December.
This was opposite to the maxims he used to preach before he was married, that I could not forbear rubbing up the memory of them.
And then the rigorous little maxims of etiquette: at a reception, the highest functionary is the first to leave; the others follow in due order.
There are two maxims in Lucretius that suffice, even to this day, to distinguish a thinker who is a naturalist from one who is not.
The latter town was defended on three sides by railway embankments, which were now occupied by strong bodies of Regulars, with several Maxims.
There was no care taken betimes to inspire him with those great and general maxims which form and improve a man of parts.
Those who really converse, reason without arguing, joke without punning, skillfully unite wit and reason, maxims and sallies, ingenious raillery and severe morality.
It was one of his favorite maxims that "no fortification was impregnable into which a mule could make its way with a bag of money!"
Now, it is well known, it is a maxim of law, that a second promulgation powerfully confirms and, in case of need, supersedes the first.
Forsake this maxim, and symbolic prophecy becomes a chaos, in which nothing is fixed, and where fancy runs riot in its own excesses.
The common proverbial maxims of prudence, being founded in universal experience, are perhaps the best general rules which can be given about it.
Their characters have that uprightness of mind, that clearness of logic, that lofty judgment, which plant in a man settled maxims and self-government.
Had the allies made a bold assault, he and his followers must have been overpowered; but this mode of attack was contrary to Indian maxims.
These continually poured into her ear the stale, trite maxims which, where consolation is actually required, add torture insupportable to the wounded heart.
We will shoulder our rucksacks early, and be early on the mountains, for the first maxim in going a journey is the early start.
More than forty years ago, a system of making appointments to office grew up, based upon the maxim "To the victors belong the spoils."
"Only one thing more," says this insatiable young man, who evidently holds in high esteem the maxim to "strike while the iron is hot."
It had been one of old Katy's maxims that if you stood about in your nightgown for however short a time, you inevitably got your death.
That is a maxim I struck out on the anvil, white-hot, that first hour in Algiers, and I am satisfied it is not subject to change.
This maxim is cruel and fatal, but it is not ridiculous; nor would it have been in any way scoffed at in the time of Euripides.
It is necessary to mention several maxims which had been introduced into the ecclesiastical government, and which passed at that time for incontestable truths.
He wished he had stuck more consistently to this maxim, and had not, by his forgetfulness, thus laid his own statement open to denial.
Fretting at the Master's prolonged inactivity and eager, after the fashion of disciples, to improve on his maxims, they decided on a bold step.
It is, however, replete with shrewd remark, and contains many admirable maxims for the discipline both of the mind and the heart.
Perhaps Nero himself had become disgusted with him for saying one thing in his philosophic maxims and pursuing the opposite course in his practice.
Every one could be original, if only people did not carelessly cram their heads with half-digested maxims, which they pour forth again as carelessly.
He was dimly conscious of the truth of the worldly and undeniably selfish maxim referring to the awkwardness of a quarrel with a neighbor.
It is a long-standing maxim, that "those who play at bowls must expect rubs:" so those who make the embarkation, must abide the consequence.
The most indolent person may read a maxim, and ponder on its truth, and be led to meditate, without any violent exertion of mind.
He divested his mind of all prejudice; he pondered on the sublimity of nature, and guided himself by maxims founded on truth and reason.
It is an unquestionable maxim, that we are the best judges of that of which we have ourselves had experience; and all parents have been children.
Now it is remarkable that this ancient maxim inscribed over the portals of the Temple of Delphi is not to be found in the Bible.
One of my maxims is, that a man ought not be well acquainted with the girl he is to marry until the ceremony is performed.
We have, in short,' he continued, trying hard to remember the popular maxim, 'cherished you like a viper, and you turn again and rend us.'
After the Star Chamber was abolished in the 10th of Charles I. its authority indeed ceased, but its maxims subsisted and survived it.
If you watch the conductors in the blizzard season, and see the slings and arrows they have to bear, you will coin a new maxim.
His heroes are not the heroes of the present times; the maxims of his sages are not easily introduced into the conversation of the day.
And the most austere, saintly, and laborious of all French authors, Button, would you know his maxim of advice in the case of sentimental intrigues?
A kindly maxim is followed by a cynic snarl, and exhortations to universal affection sleep side by side with counsels to entire distrust in man.
Here those maxims of political truth which have extended an influence over the habitable globe, and have given rise to new republics, were first promulgated.
Perchance there is a grain of truth in the French maxim that we eat to live only when we do not understand how to live to eat.
The reader may judge whether this maxim is sagacious, and seriously enjoined; or mischievous, and therefore brought forward with sinister and sarcastic motives.
I ordered some cold meat, and two bottles of wine; and, mindful of old maxims, deferred my business till his repast was over.
Secondly, from what has been said it plainly follows, that these magnified maxims are not the principles and foundations of all our other knowledge.
The next day was Sunday; a fact set down in the almanac, spite of merchant seamen's maxim, that there are no Sundays of soundings.
Other instances of this more liberal tendency will be noticed by those who make a careful comparison of the Rules and the French Maxims.
Adopt the maxim, and praise to the dead becomes worthless, from its universality; and history, a greater fable than it has been hitherto deemed.
Promptitude is a military virtue, and, among seamen, it is a maxim to do every thing that is required to be done, with activity and vigor.
Without windows to offer a view to the outside world, the other three sides were painted ivory-yellow-white and decorated with gold-lettered maxims regarding cures.
It has, indeed, become a sort of maxim, that when we put on the bonds of civil society, we give up the natural right of self-defense.
This disposition of mind, during a long period of time, retarded improvement, and knowledge was confined to a few peremptory maxims and exclusive principles.
It consists in great part of those weighty maxims which a man of keen powers of observation stores up in his passage through a varied experience.
For it comes from the bad use we make of a maxim very true in itself when viewed generally, but which in private we imperceptibly pervert.
Indeed, the old despotic maxim, "The king can do no wrong," that his acts cannot be questioned, seems to have descended to these monopolies.
Of the epic plan, the loftiest species of human conception, the aim is to astonish whilst it instructs; it is the sublime allegory of a maxim.
The Turks have some maxims in one of the bastions of that old castle; they're the guns which did all the mischief this morning.
The admiralty practice is governed by the old maxim that "ships were made to plow the ocean, and not to rot by the wall."
This single fact demonstrates that the maxim of force is not the groundwork of political legitimacy, and that it reposes upon some other base.
As a writer for the stage, he deliberately adopted and repeatedly reaffirmed the maxim that "He who lives to please, must please to live."
The maxim with which it concludes may be said to be the motto which he inscribed on his shield for the remainder of his life.
If we undertake to govern the inhabitants of such a country, we must govern them upon their own principles and maxims, and not upon ours.
Plutarch dilates upon the wide skepticism of the Greeks as to the infernal world, at the close of his essay on the maxim, "Live concealed."
Well, its maxims are too beautiful to be realized; and then on the other hand, its dogmas are too dismal, too shocking, too odious to be believed.
His maxim was that of the Jesuits; so that a contemplated good might be attained, he cared not how villainous might be the means employed.
In a moment a hundred rifles and several Maxims spat their red fire at us, but as usual the bullets flattened themselves harmlessly before us.
Maxims of the Slavs express their appreciation of community life: "The common household waxes rich"; "The more bees in the hive, the heavier it weighs."
A maxim which is founded on a passage in the Psalms, which says, the just shall eat the fruit of the labor of the unrighteous.
At the very most all that can aid them is a handful of excellent maxims, which they have picked up by listening at the keyhole.
The patriots certainly did not invent the maxim, for they found it already current: but they gave it its new and constitutional sense.
Apart from the general danger of using either words or maxims in this way, it is obviously specially unwise in the case of concentration and division.
The painters have very justly adopted it as a maxim, that no landscape is perfect, in which there are not the appendages of life and motion.