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- I say, then, we are forming an aristocracy; and, transitory as its individual life often is, it maintains itself tolerably, as a whole. [6]
- Of his own want of health, however, he never complains; he maintains a patient spirit in the ill turns of fortune, and his impatience in the business complications is that of a man hindered from his proper career. [4]
- The churches know very well, he maintains, that the fear of everlasting punishment more than any or all other motives is the source of their power and the support of their organizations. [6]
- He maintains that the automatic fellow always does just what he is told to do. [6]
- L. Penicher maintains that the bodies were first somewhat dried in ovens, and that then resin of the cedar-tree, or asphalte, was poured into every opening. [10]
- One, however, maintains that he was still living and in the prison hospital when his comrades were set free. [11]
- But the monarch of all European ruins, the Coliseum, maintains that reserve and that royal seclusion which is proper to majesty. [5]
- I do consider my Essay of much importance so long as the doctrine it maintains is treated as a question, and so long as any important part of the defence of that doctrine is thought to rest on its evidence or arguments. [3]
- Lastly, one single member of the immense and diversified class of fishes, namely, the lancelet or amphioxus, is so different from all other fishes, that Haeckel maintains that it ought to form a distinct class in the vertebrate kingdom. [1]
- This country, sir, maintains, and means to maintain, the rights of human nature, and the capacity of men for self-government. [7]
- Senator Clingman still maintains that he did not, and that the peak now known as Mitchell is the one that Clingman first described. [4]
- Why the dog maintains my dignity better than I do, and he does not seem altogether to like the architect's part I am playing. [10]
- The water he is baptized with to-day he will wipe away to-morrow, and the old gods will be his defenders, if in more peaceful times he maintains them against your superstitions. [10]
- A great anatomist, Gratiolet, maintains that the anthropomorphous apes do not form a natural sub-group; but that the orang is a highly developed gibbon or semnopithecus, the chimpanzee a highly developed macacus, and the gorilla a highly developed mandrill. [1]
- He maintains that France will accept him. [11]
- We must not forget that it is of your soul that I am speaking; and that maintains its innate dignity of feeling among so much that is petty and mean. [10]
- Self-respect and respect for others,--the sensitive consciousness poises itself in these as the compass in the ship's binnacle balances itself and maintains its true level within the two concentric rings which suspend it on their pivots. [6]
- This is a fig-tree, which maintains a precarious footing among the rocks at the mouth of the dismal cavern once occupied by the veritable Witch of Endor. [5]
- The more you examine the structure of the organs and the laws of life, the more you will find how resolutely each of the cell-republics which make up the E pluribus unum of the body maintains its independence. [3]
- The power that calls creation to life, and maintains it, has for me long had nothing in common with those beings like mortals whom the multitude designates by the name of divinities. [10]
- The lake is a mile wide, here, and maintains about that width from this point to its northern extremity--which is distant sixteen miles: from here to its southern extremity--say fifteen miles--it is not over half a mile wide in any place, I should think. [5]
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