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  • Cal's just as bad, raised to rule, to perpetuate this world of division even further.†   (source)
  • My dad liked to believe I was as popular and adventuresome as he was at my age—a myth it had always seemed easiest to perpetuate.†   (source)
  • Stephano looked back at all these people silently, his face fluttering as he tried to decide whether to come clean, a phrase which here means "admit that he's really Count Olaf and up to no good," or perpetuate his deception, a phrase which here means "lie, lie, lie."†   (source)
  • Tita prayed that the idea of perpetuating this cruel tradition would not cross Rosaura's mind.†   (source)
  • As Merton puts it: "This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error.†   (source)
  • It was, however, an autocracy by consent, for they were united from top to bottom by a commonly held ideology whose perpetuation was the reason and justification for all their sufferings.†   (source)
  • These regimes, they note, propped up economic elites who resisted reforms and perpetuated unequal political and economic systems.†   (source)
  • That's only a falsehood perpetuated by the traitors in an attempt to disrupt the Empire and convince us that the real threat is inside-not outside-our borders.†   (source)
  • And I am left feeling that no matter how much the drip-drip-drip of hostility toward us is perpetuated by the liberal press, the American people simply do not believe it.†   (source)
  • They were perpetuating all of this, helping him disappear.†   (source)
  • This is how we avoid the trap of self-perpetuating ideology.†   (source)
  • He believed that God would let him live to perpetuate his poor lost darling's memory for a long, long time.†   (source)
  • Comrade Pillai, grateful for the misunderstanding, perpetuated it.†   (source)
  • He had taught her that nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.†   (source)
  • I fault the media for perpetuating these grandiose dreams.†   (source)
  • He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth, for the perpetuation of their own functions, and for the control of individuals in the service of these functions.†   (source)
  • Those who survived to grow up— and perpetuate the race—would therefore be those who came out best in the struggle for survival.†   (source)
  • And then I want the Vanger Corporation to donate 2 million kronor annually and in perpetuity to the National Organisation for Women's Crisis Centres and Girls' Crisis Centres in Sweden."†   (source)
  • "Well your home is perpetuating the belief that genetically damaged people need to be fixed that they're damaged, period, which they—we—are not.†   (source)
  • The boys identify Peter as the reason they're in trouble, and that perpetuates the cycle of violence.'†   (source)
  • The idea was to restore power to traditional and mainly conservative ethnic leaders in order to perpetuate ethnic differences that were beginning to erode.†   (source)
  • Johnnie was desperately anxious, since the lint of the spinning room immediately irritated the little throat, and perpetuated the cold in a steady, hacking cough, that cotton-mill workers know well.†   (source)
  • Coupled with the government's crap response to the drug trade, which perpetuated the damaging myth that they could control the supply of drugs when demand was so strong, it seemed an enormous amount of totally unproductive misery, which could only come back to hurt us all later.†   (source)
  • Generation after generation perpetuates the bad things their families have modeled.†   (source)
  • The 12th System perpetuates my existence to perpetuate its own.†   (source)
  • Something very wrong when it's the twenty-first century and this type of elitist travesty is still being perpetuated.†   (source)
  • In Boston, the newspapers unknowingly began to perpetuate the single most tragic and painful of all the errors that adhered to the flagraising on Iwo Jima.†   (source)
  • Work on the mausoleum began soon after Clara's death, but it took almost two years to complete because I kept adding costly new details: tombstones with Gothic lettering in gold, a glass cupola to let the sunlight in, and an ingenious apparatus copied from the Roman fountains that allows a small interior garden, which I planted with roses and camellias, the favorite flowers of the two sisters who had won my heart, to be watered in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • Only she can guarantee the perpetuation of the family line, which, in turn, is the ultimate duty of every son.†   (source)
  • A reporter for the Ethiopian Herald perpetuated this misspelling.†   (source)
  • It was clear that the president had learned of the dirt field that the boys played on in Monterrey, because after giving them each a beautiful trophy, he told them, "The Government of the Republic will fund the construction of a baseball park in Monterrey with the most modern commodities to perpetuate your triumphs."†   (source)
  • But that didn't change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.†   (source)
  • Therefore we expect soon to break off all kind of connection with Britain, and form into a Grand Republic of the American United Colonies, which will, by the blessing of heaven, soon work out our salvation, and perpetuate the liberties, increase the wealth, the power and the glory of this Western world.†   (source)
  • I have even agreed to allow you to settle wildlings on the Gift, which was given to the Night's Watch in perpetuity."†   (source)
  • But language may also be a factor in perpetuating the social morbidity—for instance, why 27 percent of blacks fail to graduate from high school, compared with 16 percent of whites; and why only 14 percent of blacks get a college degree, compared with 26 percent of whites.†   (source)
  • Significantly, all of these pretty decorations were obsolete and anachronistic when placed in reverent perpetuity on campus.†   (source)
  • You perpetuated a series of illegal actions that enslaved free men.†   (source)
  • Her skin was cool and chaste to me, almost sisterly, alabastrine, and I thought I had convinced her to remain yet again, remembering now how many times I had done so, today and yesterday and all the days before that, in a strange and backward perpetuity.†   (source)
  • "I find it extraordinary," added Peter Knowlton, an associate director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a man in his middle fifties who perpetuated the dressy the appearance, and the attitude of an Ivy Leaguer of thirty years ago.†   (source)
  • To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war.†   (source)
  • The Constitutional Convention wrote the proposed Constitution to preserve and perpetuate the Union.†   (source)
  • But part of that incipient racism had always led whites to assume the leadership positions and perpetuated the view that whites rather than blacks were the heroes of the movement.†   (source)
  • There were cans of beer from a boardwalk bar and of course this helped perpetuate my euphoria; even when Sophie and Nathan told me goodby—Sophie looking wan and unhappy and saying she felt a little sick—and abruptly left, I kept afloat on a high cloud of elation.†   (source)
  • By serving them she perpetuated the customs of Papa's household.†   (source)
  • You Occidentals perpetuate a good many myths too.†   (source)
  • Stony Hill Farm, inside its stone walls, was as self-contained and self-perpetuating, even as serene--or so it had seemed to Will Jr's childish eyes--as Heaven itself.†   (source)
  • You, personally, continued to exist only in the form of self-perpetuating wavelengths, which I succeeded in capturing.†   (source)
  • When South Carolina invited Texas to send delegates to the Southern Convention to protest "assaults upon the institution of slavery and upon the rights of the South," Houston transmitted the communication to the Legislature as a matter of courtesy, but warned in a masterful document: "The Union was intended to be a perpetuity."†   (source)
  • Its ten torn acres were to be maintained in perpetuity as a stinging denunciation of the insanity that produced the final war.†   (source)
  • Only Rosaura could have thought to perpetuate such an inhuman tradition.†   (source)
  • To perpetuate their kind, birds trill their melodious tones.†   (source)
  • Their successors must improve and perpetuate it.†   (source)
  • The 12th System perpetuates my existence to perpetuate its own.†   (source)
  • They found a way to perpetuate themselves as stable fields of energy.†   (source)
  • The furniture had been moved, there were new prints hanging on the walls, and he thought that so many heartless changes had been made in order to perpetuate the certainty that he had never lived.†   (source)
  • It was due to natural selection in the struggle for life, in which those that were best adapted to their surroundings would survive and perpetuate the race.†   (source)
  • The result of this continual selection is that the ones best adapted to a particular environment—or a particular ecological niche—will in the long term perpetuate the race in that environment.†   (source)
  • A man must be his own trumpeter—he must write or dictate paragraphs of praise in the newspapers; he must dress, have a retinue and equipage; he must ostentatiously publish to the world his own writings with his name…… He must get his picture drawn, his statue made, and must hire all the artists in his turn to set about works to spread his name, make the mob stare and gape, and perpetuate his fame.†   (source)
  • …great when it can thus call forth the voluntary honors of a free and enlightened people [wrote the Massachusetts Centinell But the attentions shown on this occasion were not merely honorary—they were the tribute of gratitude due to a man who after retirement from trials and services which were of 18 years unremitted continuance, hath again stepped forth to endeavor to establish and perpetuate that independence …. and which his exertions have so greatly contributed to produce.†   (source)
  • I would indict the prison system as a whole as a racist institution that sought to perpetuate white supremacy.†   (source)
  • Shall we not, over the honored remains of …. this earnest pleader for the exercise of human tenderness and charity, lay aside the concealments which serve only to perpetuate misunderstandings and distrust, and frankly confess that on both sides we most earnestly desire to be one …. in feeling and in heart?†   (source)
  • "The Gift was given to the Night's Watch in perpetuity, Your Grace," Bowen Marsh insisted.†   (source)
  • The grateful town selectmen had remanded the property taxes on the Pervier place in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • Their parents are not influential, literate, or vocal, so this educational system is perpetuated.†   (source)
  • She gets her special status—and some of her spiritual powers—by having direct access to Dr. Buzzard in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • "And I want to know that when I'm laid to rest, someone will tend the plot in perpetuity, as they've been paid to do."†   (source)
  • For by your actions, by knowingly trading in African slaves-and do not deny that you were unaware of their true origins-you perpetuated a chain of events that is so completely immoral and unjust that all the consequences, including the tragic subsequent occurrence which transpired during your ill-fated voyage, rest firmly on your shoulders.†   (source)
  • It's a powerful video depicting children imitating their parents or other adults: smoking, displaying road rage, being racist, and perpetuating domestic violence.†   (source)
  • He perpetuated the great blasphemy of having his students read the New York Times instead of the Charleston News and Courier.†   (source)
  • It calls for redistribution, but not nationalization, of land; it provides for nationalization of mines, banks, and monopoly industry, because big monopolies are owned by one race only, and without such nationalization racial domination would be perpetuated despite the spread of political power.†   (source)
  • There the treasure might have remained until kingdom come, for unlike those mysterious hoards one sometimes reads about in the news—packets of greenbacks or Spanish doubloons and such uncovered by the shovels of workmen—the gold would have seemed destined to be hidden in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • He was a dark-faced man; his skin, perhaps from sun, was a black red, as though some Norse or perhaps Vandal blood was perpetuated in him.†   (source)
  • …office, nor whether it is fit that he should remain in it…… Once set, the example of impeaching a President for what, when the excitement of the House shall have subsided, will be regarded as insufficient cause, no future President will be safe who happens to differ with a majority of the House and two-thirds of the Senate on any measure deemed by them important…… What then becomes of the checks and balances of the Constitution so carefully devised and so vital to its perpetuity?†   (source)
  • So much of the rest of what I wrote was made up of callow musings, pseudo-gnomic pretentiousness, silly excursions into philosophical seminars where I had no business horning in, that I decisively cut off any chance of their perpetuation, by consigning them, a few years ago, to a spectacular backyard auto-da-fe.†   (source)
  • As long as a school looked good and children behaved properly and troublemakers were rooted out, the system held up and perpetuated itself.†   (source)
  • We gasped appropriately at the bones of dinosaurs, at the plasterof-Paris blue whale, and at the unfortunate elephant set in perpetuity to welcome visitors to the Smithsonian Institution.†   (source)
  • The coffeepot, positioned in honorable perpetuity on the stove, was the center of the tiny Skimberry universe, and over the year we consumed gallons of the steaming, hot brew as Zeke rambled on about the idiosyncracies of his work or the insecurity of his position.†   (source)
  • Why perpetuate this legend of selflessness?†   (source)
  • Not that he preaches anything immoral, but he's always told me marriage is old-fashioned, an economic device to perpetuate the institution of private property, or something like that or anyway that he doesn't like it.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, governments, political parties, or groups which seek to perpetuate human misery in order to profit therefrom politically or otherwise will encounter the opposition of the United States.†   (source)
  • She felt an intense longing to prolong, to perpetuate, the momentary exaltation of her spirit.†   (source)
  • We were the first to perpetuate events by records kept.†   (source)
  • A man wishes to perpetuate and immortalize himself, as it were, in his great-grandchildren.†   (source)
  • He tried, elaborately, with many flasks and many reseedings, to determine whether the X Principle would perpetuate itself indefinitely, whether when it was transmitted from tube to new tube of bacteria it would reappear, whether, growing by cell-division automatically, it was veritably a germ, a sub-germ infecting germs.†   (source)
  • …Americans remained in slavery; rehearsed the conduct of the Negroes with Jackson at New Orleans; drew a vivid and pathetic picture of the Southern slaves protecting and supporting the families of their masters while the latter were fighting to perpetuate black slavery; recounted the bravery of coloured troops at Port Hudson and Forts Wagner and Pillow, and praised the heroism of the black regiments that stormed El Caney and Santiago to give freedom to the enslaved people of Cuba,…†   (source)
  • One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.†   (source)
  • Women—of whom he had expected so much; whose beauty he had hoped to transmute into modes of art; whose unfathomable instincts, marvellously incoherent and inarticulate, he had thought to perpetuate in terms of experience—had become merely consecrations to their own posterity.†   (source)
  • And so it had been in the interest of both parties to perpetuate poverty and illness, and that attitude had held as long as it had been possible to maintain a purely religious view of things.†   (source)
  • A descendant of his exercised it at the accession of James I. Before this one's son chose to use the privilege, near a quarter of a century had elapsed, and the 'privilege of the Kents' had faded out of most people's memories; so, when the Kent of that day appeared before Charles I. and his court and sat down in the sovereign's presence to assert and perpetuate the right of his house, there was a fine stir indeed!†   (source)
  • Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave.†   (source)
  • Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity, which is outraged, in the name of liberty, which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery -- the great sin and shame of America!†   (source)
  • Another beekeeper who has studied the life of the hive more closely says that the bee gathers pollen dust to feed the young bees and rear a queen, and that it exists to perpetuate its race.†   (source)
  • Democracy leads men not to draw near to their fellow-creatures; but democratic revolutions lead them to shun each other, and perpetuate in a state of equality the animosities which the state of inequality engendered.†   (source)
  • The two united to rob the untutored possessors of its wooded scenery of their native right to perpetuate its original appellation of "Horican.†   (source)
  • I believe your intention is to perpetuate, and not to weaken, the ties between me and my other and far dearer self.†   (source)
  • The figure is more perfect; as the bos, meaning the ox, is unable to perpetuate his kind; and the bos, in its most extended meaning, or vacca, is altogether the nobler animal of the two.†   (source)
  • The pride of a nation, the gratification of certain ruling passions by the law, a concourse of circumstances, defects which escape notice, and more than all the rest, the influence of a majority which shuts the mouth of all cavillers, may long perpetuate the delusions of a people as well as those of a man.†   (source)
  • In concluding these little incidents of lawful trade, we must beg the world not to think that American legislators are entirely destitute of humanity, as might, perhaps, be unfairly inferred from the great efforts made in our national body to protect and perpetuate this species of traffic.†   (source)
  • But the proprietor appeared already to have relinquished as hopeless, the effort to perpetuate on this side of the Atlantic, in a hard soil, and amid the close struggle for subsistence, the native English taste for ornamental gardening.†   (source)
  • The two great obstacles which confronted the officials were the tyrant and the idler,—the slaveholder who was determined to perpetuate slavery under another name; and, the freedman who regarded freedom as perpetual rest,—the Devil and the Deep Sea.†   (source)
  • Nor do I suppose that it is possible to maintain a religion without external observances; but, on the other hand, I am persuaded that, in the ages upon which we are entering, it would be peculiarly dangerous to multiply them beyond measure; and that they ought rather to be limited to as much as is absolutely necessary to perpetuate the doctrine itself, which is the substance of religions of which the ritual is only the form.†   (source)
  • The first two of these alternatives, independently of the uncertainty of their results, were likely to delay the final decision, and to perpetuate an agitation which must always be accompanied with danger.†   (source)
  • But in the course of thirty years a great change took place, and the North refused to perpetuate what had become the "peculiar institution" of the South, especially as it gave the South a species of aristocratic preponderance.†   (source)
  • But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this.†   (source)
  • The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself.†   (source)
  • This was the device by which dependence and suffering were perpetuated as fundamentals of life.†   (source)
  • It set out to eradicate heresy, and ended by perpetuating it.†   (source)
  • …from a tribe of ignorant Indians, nobody knows how, and a house the size of a courthouse where he lived for three years without a window or door or bedstead in it and still called it Sutpen's Hundred as if it had been a King's grant in unbroken perpetuity from his great grandfather—a home, position: a wife and family which, being necessary to concealment, he accepted along with the rest of respectability as he would have accepted the necessary discomfort and even pain of the briers and…†   (source)
  • By a special urgency measure the denizens of grants in perpetuity were evicted from their graves and the exhumed remains dispatched to the crematorium.†   (source)
  • The new movements which appeared in the middle years of the century, Ingsoc in Oceania, Neo-Bolshevism in Eurasia, Death-Worship, as it is commonly called, in Eastasia, had the conscious aim of perpetuating unfreedom and inequality.†   (source)
  • They were only the memory, the perpetuation of a suffering that had come to him from without.†   (source)
  • Sexually, Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.†   (source)
  • "One might hope that the race of gentlemen would be perpetuated here," said I. "You are very good."†   (source)
  • "This unhappy marriage of mine to be perpetuated in that child's name!"†   (source)
  • Above all, the warfare of Hester's spirit at that epoch was perpetuated in Pearl.†   (source)
  • So I guess Florence had told Miss Hurlbird a good bit about Edward Ashburnham in a few scrawled words—and that that was why the old lady did not wish the name of Hurlbird perpetuated.†   (source)
  • A sickening consternation struck through him; he recognised his mother! and up flew his hand, palm outward, before his eyes—that old involuntary gesture, born of a forgotten episode, and perpetuated by habit.†   (source)
  • —"But, on the other hand, if one looks things in the face, you know—upon my honour, the prince is a rare good fellow—and—and—and—well, his name, you know—your family name—all this looks well, and perpetuates the name and title and all that—which at this moment is not standing so high as it might—from one point of view—don't you know?†   (source)
  • The purpose of government was the guarding of property-rights, the perpetuation of ancient force and modern fraud.†   (source)
  • It could not be that one conscious of such aptitudes for mastery and enjoyment was doomed to a perpetuity of failure; and her mistakes looked easily reparable in the light of her restored self-confidence.†   (source)
  • The sublimities, the perpetuities, might have left him as he was: but this tent pitched for a day's revelry spread a roof of oblivion between himself and his fixed sky.†   (source)
  • Either a man gives up the idea of perpetuating his family, or at any rate he seeks to accomplish it by other means than that of a landed estate.†   (source)
  • Human thought discovers a mode of perpetuating itself, not only more durable and more resisting than architecture, but still more simple and easy.†   (source)
  • The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends, they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own.†   (source)
  • The old woman had already made her will, and Lizaveta knew of it, and by this will she would not get a farthing; nothing but the movables, chairs and so on; all the money was left to a monastery in the province of N——, that prayers might be said for her in perpetuity.†   (source)
  • The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own end, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race.†   (source)
  • Bureau courts tended to become centres simply for punishing whites, while the regular civil courts tended to become solely institutions for perpetuating the slavery of blacks.†   (source)
  • My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end.†   (source)
  • The flower will wither in a few moments and leave nothing save its brown seed vessels; but thence may be perpetuated a race as ephemeral as itself.†   (source)
  • …when the "poor whites" of our South who were always despised and frequently insulted by the slave-lords around them, and who owed their base condition simply to the presence of slavery in their midst, were yet pusillanimously ready to side with the slave-lords in all political moves for the upholding and perpetuating of slavery, and did also finally shoulder their muskets and pour out their lives in an effort to prevent the destruction of that very institution which degraded them.†   (source)
  • Here, established in perpetuity, is the poor Beauty, a widow with a little girl; here, at dinner on Sophy's birthday, are the three married girls with their three husbands, and one of the husband's brothers, and another husband's cousin, and another husband's sister, who appears to me to be engaged to the cousin.†   (source)
  • The fact was, it was, after all, the THING that I hated—the using these men and women, the perpetuation of all this ignorance, brutality and vice,—just to make money for me!†   (source)
  • Many French words have, consequently, become of local use in this quarter of America, and not a few names given in that language have been perpetuated.†   (source)
  • In the second, perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that faint light of liberty which men call death.†   (source)
  • Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, that all the anguish of that then present suffering was but the direct issue of a former woe; and he too plainly seemed to see, that as the most poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable events do naturally beget their like.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, the original perpetrator and father of this mischief appears to have perpetuated himself, and still walks the street,—at least, his very image, in mind and body,—with the fairest prospect of transmitting to posterity as rich and as wretched an inheritance as he has received!†   (source)
  • …into imprudent and ill-judged speculations, and may not have had the money, for which he was morally and legally responsible, in hand; going on with pretended borrowings of money at enormous interest, really coming from — HEEP — and by — HEEP — fraudulently obtained or withheld from Mr. W. himself, on pretence of such speculations or otherwise; perpetuated by a miscellaneous catalogue of unscrupulous chicaneries — gradually thickened, until the unhappy Mr. W. could see no world beyond.†   (source)
  • It looks as if Symond were a sparing man in his way and constructed his inn of old building materials which took kindly to the dry rot and to dirt and all things decaying and dismal, and perpetuated Symond's memory with congenial shabbiness.†   (source)
  • …of philosophy, in spite of progress, the spirit of the cloister persists in the midst of the nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this moment, astonishing the civilized world. obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the child's garment which should insist on clothing…†   (source)
  • …with architecture;[372] writes laws, and contrives to execute his will through the hands of many nations; and, especially, establishes a select society, running through all the countries of intelligent men, a self-constituted aristocracy, or fraternity of the best, which, without written law, or exact usage of any kind, perpetuates itself, colonizes every new-planted island, and adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.†   (source)
  • To make the place, it was necessary for him to cross the thoroughfare so soon to receive sorrowful Christian perpetuation.†   (source)
  • Because every thought, either philosophical or religious, is interested in perpetuating itself; because the idea which has moved one generation wishes to move others also, and leave a trace.†   (source)
  • Whoever has travelled in the New England States will remember, in some cool village, the large farmhouse, with its clean-swept grassy yard, shaded by the dense and massive foliage of the sugar maple; and remember the air of order and stillness, of perpetuity and unchanging repose, that seemed to breathe over the whole place.†   (source)
  • Mother and daughter stood together in the same circle of seclusion from human society; and in the nature of the child seemed to be perpetuated those unquiet elements that had distracted Hester Prynne before Pearl's birth, but had since begun to be soothed away by the softening influences of maternity.†   (source)
  • Once again he touched him on the breast, as though his finger were the fine point of a small sword, with which, in delicate finesse, he ran him through the body, and said, "My friend, I will die, perpetuating the system under which I have lived."†   (source)
  • …which, delivered by Brahma, treat of medicine, archery, architecture, music, and the four-and-sixty mechanical arts; the Ved-Angas, revealed by inspired saints, and devoted to astronomy, grammar, prosody, pronunciation, charms and incantations, religious rites and ceremonies; the Up-Angas, written by the sage Vyasa, and given to cosmogony, chronology, and geography; therein also are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, heroic poems, designed for the perpetuation of our gods and demi-gods.†   (source)
  • At her death, at the moment when she was passing to the other sepulchre, she had bequeathed this one in perpetuity to afflicted women, mothers, widows, or maidens, who should wish to pray much for others or for themselves, and who should desire to inter themselves alive in a great grief or a great penance.†   (source)
  • And finally, now, to-day, when we are awakening to the fact that the perpetuity of republican institutions on this continent depends on the purification of the ballot, the civic training of voters, and the raising of voting to the plane of a solemn duty which a patriotic citizen neglects to his peril and to the peril of his children's children,—in this day, when we are striving for a renaissance of civic virtue, what are we going to say to the black voter of the South?†   (source)
  • The descendants of these simple and single-minded provincials have been content to reject the ordinary and artificial means by which honours have been perpetuated in families, and have substituted a standard which brings the individual himself to the ordeal of the public estimation, paying as little deference as may be to those who have gone before him.†   (source)
  • This chapel, quite new, having been built only six years, was entirely in that charming taste of delicate architecture, of marvellous sculpture, of fine and deep chasing, which marks with us the end of the Gothic era, and which is perpetuated to about the middle of the sixteenth century in the fairylike fancies of the Renaissance.†   (source)
  • The individuals who regulated the consequences of the Revolution of 1830 followed his example; they merely established the perpetuity of the law in favor of another family.†   (source)
  • The tradition of slavery dishonors the race, and the peculiarity of the race perpetuates the tradition of slavery.†   (source)
  • An aristocratic class always differs greatly from the other classes of the nation, by the extent and perpetuity of its privileges; but it often happens that the only differences between the members who belong to it consist in small transient advantages, which may any day be lost or acquired.†   (source)
  • But all this is not applicable to men already enlightened who retain their freedom, after having abolished from amongst them those peculiar and hereditary rights which perpetuated the tenure of property in the hands of certain individuals or certain bodies.†   (source)
  • The family represents the estate, the estate the family; whose name, together with its origin, its glory, its power, and its virtues, is thus perpetuated in an imperishable memorial of the past and a sure pledge of the future.†   (source)
  • The mass of the people may be led astray by ignorance or passion; the mind of a king may be biased, and his perseverance in his designs may be shaken—besides which a king is not immortal—but an aristocratic body is too numerous to be led astray by the blandishments of intrigue, and yet not numerous enough to yield readily to the intoxicating influence of unreflecting passion: it has the energy of a firm and enlightened individual, added to the power which it derives from perpetuity.†   (source)
  • This gave rise to laws and customs which have been perpetuated, notwithstanding the subdivision of lands and the ruin of the nobility; and, at the present time, landowners and agriculturists are still those amongst the community who must easily escape from the control of the supreme power.†   (source)
  • When social conditions are nearly equal, men are constantly changing their situations in life: there is still a class of menials and a class of masters, but these classes are not always composed of the same individuals, still less of the same families; and those who command are not more secure of perpetuity than those who obey.†   (source)
  • …difficulty an admirable regularity to the routine of business; provides for the details of the social police with sagacity; represses the smallest disorder and the most petty misdemeanors; maintains society in a status quo alike secure from improvement and decline; and perpetuates a drowsy precision in the conduct of affairs, which is hailed by the heads of the administration as a sign of perfect order and public tranquillity: *s in short, it excels more in prevention than in action.†   (source)
  • The transmission of these estates from generation to generation, to men who bore the same name, had the effect of raising up a distinct class of families, who, possessing by law the privilege of perpetuating their wealth, formed by these means a sort of patrician order, distinguished by the grandeur and luxury of their establishments.†   (source)
  • A number of us, however, are yet living; but the instrument was after a few years rendered null by a charter that incorporated and gave perpetuity to the company.†   (source)
  • It was the first step outward to the universe—beyond the universe—because in it and with it we merged to recreate and perpetuate the human spirit.†   (source)
  • As they fright men from committing crimes by punishments, so they invite them to the love of virtue by public honours; therefore they erect statues to the memories of such worthy men as have deserved well of their country, and set these in their market-places, both to perpetuate the remembrance of their actions and to be an incitement to their posterity to follow their example.†   (source)
  • A strong sense of the value and blessings of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government to preserve and perpetuate it.†   (source)
  • Do you think that I should perpetuate The flame of love that I have felt of late, And see you pass into another's arms Without letting my heart seek other charms?†   (source)
  • They formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate.†   (source)
  • To preserve and perpetuate it was the great object of the people in forming that convention, and it is also the great object of the plan which the convention has advised them to adopt.†   (source)
  • It guards equally against that extreme facility, which would render the Constitution too mutable; and that extreme difficulty, which might perpetuate its discovered faults.†   (source)
  • Would they not rather boldly resolve to perpetuate themselves in office by one decisive act of usurpation, than to trust to precarious expedients which, in spite of all the precautions that might accompany them, might terminate in the dismission, disgrace, and ruin of their authors?†   (source)
  • "It could be self-perpetuating art," she went on, "a creative experience for the art lover.†   (source)
  • Perpetuating national hatred among nations.†   (source)
  • Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana, but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey…†   (source)
  • But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward; which I feel begun Both in me, and without me; and so last To perpetuity;—Ay me! that fear Comes thundering back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both; Nor I on my part single; in me all Posterity stands cursed: Fair patrimony That I must leave ye, Sons!†   (source)
  • Nine changes of the watery star hath been The shepherd's note since we have left our throne Without a burden: time as long again Would be fill'd up, my brother, with our thanks; And yet we should, for perpetuity, Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher, Yet standing in rich place, I multiply With one we-thank-you many thousands more That go before it.†   (source)
  • The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.†   (source)
  • That the system of living contrived by me, was unreasonable and unjust; because it supposed a perpetuity of youth, health, and vigour, which no man could be so foolish to hope, however extravagant he may be in his wishes.†   (source)
  • Foreign nations have long considered themselves as interested in the changes made by events in this constitution; and have, on various occasions, betrayed their policy of perpetuating its anarchy and weakness.†   (source)
  • It is more than possible that this uniformity may be found by experience to be of great importance to the public welfare, both as a security against the perpetuation of the same spirit in the body, and as a cure for the diseases of faction.†   (source)
  • In this view of the subject, by what logic can it be maintained that the local governments ought to command, in perpetuity, an EXCLUSIVE source of revenue for any sum beyond the extent of two hundred thousand pounds?†   (source)
  • There may be conceived circumstances in which this disgust of the people, seconding the thwarted ambition of such a favorite, might occasion greater danger to liberty, than could ever reasonably be dreaded from the possibility of a perpetuation in office, by the voluntary suffrages of the community, exercising a constitutional privilege.†   (source)
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