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| ... contend upon topics which concern only the interests of eternity; the men who hold in proper contempt all controversies about trifles, except such as inflame their own passions, have made it a commonplace censure against your ancestors, that their zeal was enkindled by subjects of trivial importance; and that however ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... explain how it can be produced by the heavenly bodies which are not themselves hot. We see that motion is able to dissolve and inflame the air; indeed, moving bodies are often actually found to melt. Now the sun's motion alone is sufficient to account for the origin of terrestrial ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... throne against the Parliament. He now, alarmed at finding that the patriotic counsels of Danby seemed likely to prevail in the closet, began to inflame the Parliament against the throne. Between Lewis and the Country Party there was one thing, and one only in common, profound distrust of Charles. Could ... |
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[ MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, GERMANY & AUSTRIA]
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| ... for discontentments, they are, in the politic body, like to humors in the natural, which are apt to gather a preternatural heat, and to inflame. And let no prince measure the danger of them by this, whether they be just or unjust: for that were to imagine people, to be ... |
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[ MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, GERMANY & AUSTRIA]
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| ... borrowed; the triumphs of the generals, upon their return; the great donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding of the armies; were things able to inflame all men's courages. But above all, that of the triumph, amongst the Romans, was not pageants or gaudery, but one of the wisest and ... |
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[ FRENCH FICTION]
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| ... that would bear comparison with that of her daughter. If Natalie ought to make herself attractive to Paul she ought, none the less, to inflame the ardor of her champion Solonet. The mother and daughter were therefore under arms when Paul arrived, bearing the bouquet which for the last few ... |
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[ FRENCH FICTION]
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| ... check by a faint-hearted sentimentality. Life in Paris is a cruel ordeal for impressionable natures, the great inequalities of fortune or of position inflame their souls and stir up bitter feelings. In that world of magnificence and pettiness envy is more apt to be a dagger than a spur. ... |
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| ... one often sighs when in the midst of "a bustle at once sordid and trivial." In spite of Dr. Johnson, these "monstrous protuberances" do "inflame the imagination and elevate the understanding." This scenery satisfies my soul. Now, the Rocky Mountains realize--nay, exceed--the dream of my childhood. It is ... |
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| ... had also, through His blessed grace, some encouragement by His blessing thereupon; the devil, that old enemy of man's salvation, took his opportunity to inflame the hearts of his vassals against me, insomuch that at the last, I was laid out for by the warrant of a justice, and was ... |
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| ... pleasures sufficiently to give them a double zest,exclaimed Sallust. 'It is like a woman's "No",added Glaucus: 'it cools, but to inflame the more.'When is our next wild-beast fight?said Clodius to Pansa. 'It stands fixed for the ninth ide of August,answered Pansa: 'on the day ... |
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| ... can I assist you?am about to invite her to a feast in my house: I wish to dazzle- to bewilder- to inflame her senses. Our arts- the arts by which Egypt trained her young novitiates- must be employed; and, under veil of the mysteries of religion, I will open ... |
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