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  • I've made a little study of them in my time here, and it seems to me that intrinsic to this intense family binding—that which makes them possible at all—is the peaceful character of this life of sacrifice.†   (source)
  • But in the case of Connectors, their ability to span many different worlds is a function of something intrinsic to their personality, some combination of curiosity, self-confidence, sociability, and energy.†   (source)
  • Of course, there is intrinsic value in playing the game itself and how well you play it, and always playing to the best of your ability, but at some point the actual competition has to be a piece of the analysis as well.†   (source)
  • It was a kind of visual fatigue and it came, he knew, from the constant necessity of holding the prescient future as a kind of memory that was in itself a thing intrinsically of the past.†   (source)
  • In her mind, American things—appliances, mouthwash, funny-looking upholstery—all seemed to have an intrinsic badness about them.†   (source)
  • There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act-a triumph of desire over sensibility.†   (source)
  • I said as I bucked, my pelvis possessing some intrinsic knowledge of the movements needed.†   (source)
  • Joyce was as intrinsic to the store as the items on the shelves.†   (source)
  • Then, at the very outset of the war, he fell prisoner to the Germans, and other prisoners, belonging to an incomprehensible, standoffish nation that had always been intrinsically repulsive to him, accused him of being dirty.†   (source)
  • Now picture two candidates, one intrinsically appealing and the other not so.†   (source)
  • Had that been automatic, even intrinsic?†   (source)
  • There is nothing intrinsically evil about us.†   (source)
  • He berated Adams in nearly every way possible—for his "great intrinsic defects of character," his "disgusting egotism," weaknesses, vacillation, his "eccentric tendencies," his "bitter animosity" toward his own cabinet.†   (source)
  • One finds that in the Judeo-Christian culture in which the Old Testament "Word" had an intrinsic sacredness of its own, men are willing to sacrifice and live by and die for words.†   (source)
  • And with this sense of dispossession came a pang of vague recognition: this junk, these shabby chairs, these heavy, old-fashioned pressing irons, zinc wash tubs with dented bottoms-all throbbed within me with more meaning than there should have been: And why did I, standing in the crowd, see like a vision my mother hanging wash on a cold windy day, so cold that the warm clothes froze even before the vapor thinned and hung stiff on the line, and her hands white and raw in the skirt-swirling wind and her gray head bare to the darkened sky-why were they causing me discomfort so far beyond their intrinsic meaning as objects?†   (source)
  • He had hurled himself from a plane ...at night ...signals and metal and straps intrinsic to his leap.†   (source)
  • In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline.†   (source)
  • Evil is not intrinsic.†   (source)
  • Indeed, they could stand as a textbook case against the notion that countries are shaped by the intrinsic qualities of their people.†   (source)
  • I sense that it is not the State that has intrinsic value in the machinery of humankind, but rather the creative, feeling individual, the personality alone that creates the noble and sublime.†   (source)
  • If she were here, he would have her inexplicable conviction to cling to, her belief that he was intrinsically good, a belief that served as a fortress through which no doubt could travel.†   (source)
  • Not only were the furnishings old, intrinsically unlovely, and clotted with memory and sentiment, but the room itself in past years had served as the arena for countless hockey and football (tackle as well as "touch") games, and there was scarcely a leg on any piece of furniture that wasn't badly nicked or marred.†   (source)
  • The exceptions to this rule depend entirely on accidental causes, not the intrinsic merits or demerits of a constitution.†   (source)
  • Not that they were much different from those in the other towns, at least not intrinsically.†   (source)
  • She thinks they are an intrinsically evil people, children of the devil.†   (source)
  • Red men are not intrinsically different from White men, at least not in any simple, easily categorized way.†   (source)
  • I see nothing intrinsically humorous in fudge.†   (source)
  • Like writers I love and who have kept me company through my life, I paid them when I was a child who felt separate and apart; when I learned to see the place I was in as an observer and, as much as I hate to admit it, as one who was intrinsically wrapped up in the seasons on that farm, that heat and poverty, and that sad certainty that life would not be any other way.†   (source)
  • If he succeeded, he was an alienated marginal man—alienated from the strength of his culture and from fellow black men, and never able, of course, to become that imitation white man because he bore the pigment that made the white man view him as intrinsically other.†   (source)
  • But since people generally have a reason for going to that much trouble, there had to be a decent intrinsic value involved.†   (source)
  • For aside from its intrinsic loveliness, it was a work whose very identity she had sought for ten years.†   (source)
  • He looked dead, as though there were no longer any intrinsic connection between the parts of his face—the round, yellowed ears, the red-veined nose, the white, sagging cheeks that lapped to the sides of his small, cleft chin like old drapery, or like dirty snow sinking into itself, or like bread-dough.†   (source)
  • Even if he were intrinsically strong, working with the redneck katana would be very difficult.†   (source)
  • Was their problem with margarine intrinsic to the food itself?†   (source)
  • 'I assume that trust is intrinsic to this opportunity, whatever it is?†   (source)
  • Where were the flares intrinsic to such an operation?†   (source)
  • One lie can be exposed, only to raise ten other questions intrinsic to that lie.†   (source)
  • No form of government has any intrinsic value.†   (source)
  • And Marie's husband, this Webb, is intrinsic to the solution?†   (source)
  • A frontal assault on each man, and the word 'front' was intrinsic to his plan.†   (source)
  • Blind recipients he had assumed were intrinsic to the Monk's strategy.†   (source)
  • Since I saw nothing intrinsically humorous in my last name, I asked them what was so damn funny.†   (source)
  • He feels strongly that those activities have intrinsic value in terms of connecting you to another person.†   (source)
  • Herder showed that each historical epoch had its own intrinsic value and each nation its own character or 'soul.'†   (source)
  • They say that the criminal — far from being someone who acts for fundamental, intrinsic reasons and who lives in his own world — is actually someone acutely sensitive to his environment, who is alert to all kinds of cues, and who is prompted to commit crimes based on his perception of the world around him.†   (source)
  • ...An intrinsic part of this story would be to describe how these cells, originally obtained from Henrietta Lakes, are being grown and used for the benefit of mankind.†   (source)
  • Having squelched the craze on the grounds of its intrinsic decadence, in the mid-1920s the Bolsheviks had begun to countenance it again.†   (source)
  • Although the world has always existed, human culture and human development have made the world spirit increasingly conscious of its intrinsic value.†   (source)
  • Hiro's heart and lungs are well developed, and he has been blessed with unusually quick reflexes, but he is not intrinsically strong, the way his father was.†   (source)
  • Most assume this is because the drink is so intrinsically celebratory; but, in fact, it is used at the onset of these dangerous enterprises because it so capably boosts one's resolve.†   (source)
  • Allie suffered from Alzheimer's in the final years of her life, and I've come to believe it's an intrinsically evil disease.†   (source)
  • Intrinsic to the elaborate lobby is a defiance aimed at a government that would permit so many shabby citizens to invade the premises.†   (source)
  • If other groups were interested in becoming wealthy, I was to assure the Brothers and the doubting members of other districts, that we rejected wealth as corrupt and intrinsically degrading; if other minorities loved the country despite their grievances, I would assure the committee that we, immune to such absurdly human and mixed reactions, hated it absolutely; and, greatest contradiction of all, when they denounced the American scene as corrupt and degenerate, I was to say that we, though snarled inextricably within its veins and sinews, were miraculously healthy.†   (source)
  • If you understand the intrinsic difficulty of the problem, you will not hastily condemn this decision.†   (source)
  • Jason Bourne is intrinsic to it, yes.†   (source)
  • Monies were constantly funneled to accounts beyond official scrutiny, certain understandings intrinsic to the payments.†   (source)
  • And as long as value is intrinsic to our discussion, I should tell you that it is the second telephone number; the first was canceled.†   (source)
  • It was a quiet laugh, at first even an embarrassed laugh, but the observation was there, the appraisal of foolishness intrinsic to something very deep between them.†   (source)
  • In seconds his upper body would be naked; passport, papers, cards, money no longer his, all the items intrinsic to his escape from Zurich taken from him.†   (source)
  • Bourne had not bothered to tell the old soldier that it did not matter; that he would get inside in any event, a degree of damage intrinsic to his strategy.†   (source)
  • A few random pages survived the blaze, but even these I kept less for any intrinsic worth than for what they added to the historical record—the record, that is, of myself.†   (source)
  • The boys glanced suspiciously at the lace and the enormous red heart, then decided there was something intrinsically feminine about this gathering at the Conracks'.†   (source)
  • 100% times increase yearly for each child plus intrinsic val.†   (source)
  • Does that change the intrinsic reality of the picture?†   (source)
  • His role, however unimpressive, is seen to be intrinsic to the beautiful festival-image of man—the image, potential yet necessarily inhibited, within himself.†   (source)
  • And thus the intrinsic significance of our craft lies in the philosophical fact that we deal in nothing.†   (source)
  • Mr. Duffy lifted his lip to expose the gold, but made no sound, for, Mr. Duffy being a man of the world and serene in confidence, his style was to put forth his sally and let it make its way on its intrinsic worth and to leave the applause to the public.†   (source)
  • If, on the other hand, he is an emotional, gullible man, feed him on minor poets and fifth-rate novelists of the old school until you have made him believe that "Love" is both irresistible and somehow intrinsically meritorious.†   (source)
  • From the outset they reveal a paradoxical satisfaction at the discovery of a town so intrinsically ugly.†   (source)
  • The holiday it gave was perfect and, if the morning after was disagreeable, it was so, not intrinsically, but only by comparison with the joys of the holiday.†   (source)
  • Increase 200% times intrinsic val.†   (source)
  • Not that he himself saw anything intrinsically objectionable in people talking about the remote past; that was one of those hypnopaedic prejudices he had (so he imagined) completely got rid of.†   (source)
  • "We have here the picture of a hero," writes Dr. Coomaraswamy, "who can be involved in the Las of an aesthetic experience ["the points" being the five senses], but is able, by an intrinsic moral superiority, to liberate himself, and even to release others.†   (source)
  • and that if he had only gone to Texas ten years ago or five years ago or even last year: so that maybe at night while he would be waiting for the window to begin to turn gray he would be like the Aunt Rosa said she was and he would have to deny that he breathed (or maybe wished he didn't) except for that two hundred percent times the intrinsic value every New Year's; —the water backing up from the stick and rising and spreading about him steady and quiet as light and him sitting there in the actual white glare of clairvoyance (or second sight or faith in human misfortune and folly or whatever you want to call it) that was showing him not only what might happen but what was actuall†   (source)
  • The triumph may be rcpresented as the hero's sexual union with the goddess-mother of the world (sacred marriage), his recognition by the father-creator (father atonement), his own divinization (apotheosis), or again—if the powers have remained unfriendly to him—his theft of the boon he came to gain (bride-theft, fire-theft); intrinsically it is an expansion of consciousness and therewith of being (illumination, transfiguration, freedom).†   (source)
  • It would be no secret between them now; it would just be unsaid: the lawyer behind the desk (and maybe in the secret drawer the ledger where he had just finished adding in the last past year's interest compounded between the intrinsic and the love and pride at two hundred percent)—the lawyer fretted, annoyed, but not at all concerned since he not only knew he had the screws, but he still did not really believe that Bon was that kind of a fool, though he was about to alter his opinion somewhat about the dullness, or at least the backwardness; —the lawyer watching him and saying†   (source)
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  • Pain is simply our intrinsic medical adviser to warn us and stimulate us.†   (source)
  • That it was intrinsically valuable was a truism I had never questioned.†   (source)
  • Of intrinsic value as a wife, I think she had none at all for me.†   (source)
  • "Oh, if the thing is intrinsically improper," said Newman, "I won't go into it.†   (source)
  • I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the Weatherbury folk were by no means uninteresting intrinsically.†   (source)
  • It was almost foreign to her intrinsic nature.†   (source)
  • And yet, beyond that, she hardly knew what he had—save of course his intrinsic qualities.†   (source)
  • He unites the intrinsic and the extrinsic advantages.†   (source)
  • As for the intrinsic value of people, it is no longer respectable in the least.†   (source)
  • Oh, he was intrinsic enough; she never thought of his even looking for artificial aids.†   (source)
  • The slicker was a definite element of success, differing intrinsically from the prep school "big man."†   (source)
  • Have you ever stood before a woman whom you know to be intrinsically a good woman, while she has pleaded for release—been the man she has knelt to and implored indulgence of?†   (source)
  • His soul was still weighed down, oppressed, tense from the profound silence, the dangerous solitude, but he was proud of having conquered it and felt a courage that came from his intrinsic right to such surroundings.†   (source)
  • This charm of drawing him closer to her, which her favourite plays and pictures and places possessed, struck him as being more mysterious than the intrinsic charm of more beautiful things and places, which appealed to him by their beauty, but without recalling her.†   (source)
  • I have been made to feel sad for such persons because I am conscious of the fact that mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless he has individual worth, and mere connection with what is regarded as an inferior race will not finally hold an individual back if he possesses intrinsic, individual merit.†   (source)
  • It was intrinsically different from the Vale of Little Dairies, Blackmoor Vale, which, save during her disastrous sojourn at Trantridge, she had exclusively known till now.†   (source)
  • Yet the intrinsic quality of the event moved his touchy sensitiveness less than its conjectured effect upon the minds of others.†   (source)
  • He went farther; agonised by the reflection, at the moment when it passed by him, so near and yet so infinitely remote, that, while it was addressed to their ears, it knew them not, he would regret, almost, that it had a meaning of its own, an intrinsic and unalterable beauty, foreign to themselves, just as in the jewels given to us, or even in the letters written to us by a woman with whom we are in love, we find fault with the 'water' of a stone, or with the words of a sentence because they are not fashioned exclusively from the spirit of a fleeting intimacy and of a 'lass unparalleled.'†   (source)
  • This trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphere—especially after several astounding bracers.†   (source)
  • When Odette ceased to be for him a creature always absent, regretted, imagined; when the feeling that he had for her was no longer the same mysterious disturbance that was wrought in him by the phrase from the sonata, but constant affection and gratitude, when those normal relations were established between them which would put an end to his melancholy madness; then, no doubt, the actions of Odette's daily life would appear to him as being of but little intrinsic interest—as he had several times, already, felt that they might be, on the day, for instance, when he had read, through its envelope, her letter to Forcheville.†   (source)
  • The idea was strong in him that there was a certain intrinsic lack in those to whom orthodox religion was necessary, and religion to Amory meant the Church of Rome.†   (source)
  • This belief was confirmed by his experience of women, which, having latterly been extended from the cultivated middle-class into the rural community, had taught him how much less was the intrinsic difference between the good and wise woman of one social stratum and the good and wise woman of another social stratum, than between the good and bad, the wise and the foolish, of the same stratum or class.†   (source)
  • And as the qualities which he supposed to be an intrinsic part of the Verdurin character were no more, really, than their superficial reflection of the pleasure which had been enjoyed in their society by his love for Odette, those qualities became more serious, more profound, more vital, as that pleasure increased.†   (source)
  • But Swann was so ardent a lover that, once he had got to know almost all the women of the aristocracy, once they had taught him all that there was to learn, he had ceased to regard those naturalisation papers, almost a patent of nobility, which the Faubourg Saint-Germain had bestowed upon him, save as a sort of negotiable bond, a letter of credit with no intrinsic value, which allowed him to improvise a status for himself in some little hole in the country, or in some obscure quarter of Paris, where the good-looking daughter of a local squire or solicitor had taken his fancy.†   (source)
  • I am sure most people would have thought him an ugly man; yet there was so much unconscious pride in his port; so much ease in his demeanour; such a look of complete indifference to his own external appearance; so haughty a reliance on the power of other qualities, intrinsic or adventitious, to atone for the lack of mere personal attractiveness, that, in looking at him, one inevitably shared the indifference, and, even in a blind, imperfect sense, put faith in the confidence.†   (source)
  • His features were attractive in the light of symbols, as sounds intrinsically common become attractive in language, and as shapes intrinsically simple become interesting in writing.†   (source)
  • And its being me, Kostya Levin, who went to a ball in a black tie, and was refused by the Shtcherbatskaya girl, and who was intrinsically such a pitiful, worthless creature—that proves nothing; I feel sure Franklin felt just as worthless, and he too had no faith in himself, thinking of himself as a whole.†   (source)
  • Amongst a democratic population, all the intellectual faculties of the workman are directed to these two objects: he strives to invent methods which may enable him not only to work better, but quicker and cheaper; or, if he cannot succeed in that, to diminish the intrinsic qualities of the thing he makes, without rendering it wholly unfit for the use for which it is intended.†   (source)
  • This way of her own, of which she was so fond, was not intrinsically offensive—it was just unmistakeably distinguished from the ways of others.†   (source)
  • At that epoch of pristine simplicity, however, matters of even slighter public interest, and of far less intrinsic weight than the welfare of Hester and her child, were strangely mixed up with the deliberations of legislators and acts of state.†   (source)
  • I waited till their nap was over, and they well on their war-path again; and, by ambushing them here and flanking them there, I peppered the blackguards intrinsically like" (Pathfinder occasionally caught a fine word from his associates, and used it a little vaguely), "that only one ever got back to his village, and he came into his wigwam limping.†   (source)
  • It must be added that it came to him in some forms which, whatever might have been their intrinsic value, made it the reverse of welcome.†   (source)
  • But not to speak of the intrinsic quality of histories of this kind (which may possibly even be of use to someone for something) the histories of culture, to which all general histories tend more and more to approximate, are significant from the fact that after seriously and minutely examining various religious, philosophic, and political doctrines as causes of events, as soon as they have to describe an actual historic event such as the campaign of 1812 for instance, they involuntarily describe it as resulting from an exercise of power—and say plainly that that was the result of Napoleon's will.†   (source)
  • And he measured ten double handfuls of pearls, diamonds, and other gems, many of which, mounted by the most famous workmen, were valuable beyond their intrinsic worth.†   (source)
  • Mr. Goodwood made these detached assertions with dry deliberateness, in his hard, slow American tone, which flung no atmospheric colour over propositions intrinsically crude.†   (source)
  • The elevation of level which they contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from themselves and not from an accident.†   (source)
  • The first thing that strikes me is, that in the feudal world actions were not always praised or blamed with reference to their intrinsic worth, but that they were sometimes appreciated exclusively with reference to the person who was the actor or the object of them, which is repugnant to the general conscience of mankind.†   (source)
  • The gifts of fortune may be present or absent, but all the hap in that contest depends on intrinsic nobleness, and the contempt of trifles.†   (source)
  • The change from the customary spot and necessary occasion of such an act—from the dressing hour in a bedroom to a time of travelling out of doors—lent to the idle deed a novelty it did not intrinsically possess.†   (source)
  • A natural gentleman finds his way in, and will keep the oldest patrician out, who has lost his intrinsic rank.†   (source)
  • I have shown how the dread of disturbance and the love of well-being insensibly lead democratic nations to increase the functions of central government, as the only power which appears to be intrinsically sufficiently strong, enlightened, and secure, to protect them from anarchy.†   (source)
  • knowing all the languages of Europe, and, what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly the first Prince of the Blood Royal while he was still only a Serene Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at bottom, one of thos†   (source)
  • Ralph was a clever man; but Ralph had never—to his own sense—been so clever as when he observed, in petto, that under the guise of caring only for intrinsic values Osmond lived exclusively for the world.†   (source)
  • Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shellfish crawls out of its beautiful but stony case, because it no longer admits of its growth, and slowly forms a new house.†   (source)
  • You are a prelate,—revenues, palace, horses, servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable intention of bringing wisdom to me.†   (source)
  • She saw, in the crude light of that revelation which had already become a part of experience and to which the very frailty of the vessel in which it had been offered her only gave an intrinsic price, the dry staring fact that she had been an applied handled hung-up tool, as senseless and convenient as mere shaped wood and iron.†   (source)
  • More than you think it really and intrinsically worth.†   (source)
  • Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength, or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.†   (source)
  • To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.†   (source)
  • However reverting to friend Sinbad and his horrifying adventures (who reminded him a bit of Ludwig, alias Ledwidge, when he occupied the boards of the Gaiety when Michael Gunn was identified with the management in the Flying Dutchman, a stupendous success, and his host of admirers came in large numbers, everyone simply flocking to hear him though ships of any sort, phantom or the reverse, on the stage usually fell a bit flat as also did trains) there was nothing intrinsically incompatible about it, he conceded.†   (source)
  • It is the living expression of the mind and spirit of a people, ever changing and shifting, whose sole standard of correctness is custom and the common usage of the community....The first lesson to be learned is that there is no intrinsic right or wrong in the use of language, no fixed rules such as are the delight of the teacher of Latin prose.†   (source)
  • What slang actually consists of doesn't depend, in truth, upon intrinsic qualities, but upon the surrounding circumstances.†   (source)
  • Of the intrinsic differences that separate American from English the chief have their roots in the obvious disparity between the environment and traditions of the American people since the seventeenth century and those of the English.†   (source)
  • English now has the brakes on, but American continues to leap in the dark, and the prodigality of its movement is all the [Pg029] indication that is needed of its intrinsic health, its capacity to meet the ever-changing needs of a restless and iconoclastic people, constantly fluent in racial composition, and disdainful of hampering traditions.†   (source)
  • In addition, of course, there is the fact that regularization is itself intrinsically simplification—that it makes the language easier.†   (source)
  • [30] [Pg125] When we come to words, that, either intrinsically or by usage, are improper, a great many curious differences between English and American reveal themselves†   (source)
  • Moreover, the general feeling penetrates the man himself, particularly if he be ignorant, and he comes to believe that his name is not only a handicap, but also intrinsically discreditable—that it wars subtly upon his worth and integrity.†   (source)
  • I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you,
    None has understood you, but I understand you,
    None has done justice to you, you have not done justice to yourself,
    None but has found you imperfect, I only find no imperfection in you,
    None but would subordinate you, I only am he who will never consent
    to subordinate you,
    I only am he who places over you no master, owner, better, God,
    beyond what waits intrinsically in yourself.†   (source)
  • In either case, the intrinsic merit of the candidate will be too often out of sight.†   (source)
  • In either case, the intrinsic merit of the candidate will be too often out of sight.†   (source)
  • But however little this objection may be countenanced, even by precedents among ourselves, it may be satisfactory to take a nearer view of its intrinsic merits.†   (source)
  • for that intent, I wrote to my old friend at Lisbon, who returned to me an answer to my great satisfaction; which was, that he could sell it to good account; however, if I thought it convenient to give him liberty to offer it in my name to the two merchants, the survivors of my trustees residing at the Brazils, who consequently knew its intrinsic value, having lived just upon the spot, and who I was sensible were very rich, and therefore might be the more willing to purchase it: he did not in the least doubt, but that I should make four or five thousand pieces of eight more of it, than I could, if I disposed of it in any other manner whatsoever.†   (source)
  • It is not enough that your designs, nay, that your actions, are intrinsically good; you must take care they shall appear so.†   (source)
  • Fourthly, such Opinions as are taken onely upon Credit of Antiquity, are not intrinsically the Judgment of those that cite them, but Words that passe (like gaping) from mouth to mouth.†   (source)
  • that he was most industrious in searching after merit in distress, most eager to relieve it, and then as careful (perhaps too careful) to conceal what he had done; that his house, his furniture, his gardens, his table, his private hospitality, and his public beneficence, all denoted the mind from which they flowed, and were all intrinsically rich and noble, without tinsel, or external ostentation; that he filled every relation in life with the most adequate virtue; that he was most piously religious to his Creator, most zealously loyal to his sovereign; a most tender husband to his wife, a kind relation, a munificent patron, a warm and firm friend, a knowing and a chearful companion†   (source)
  • No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded.†   (source)
  • It must be admitted that there are exceptions to this rule; but these exceptions depend so entirely on accidental causes, that they cannot be considered as having any relation to the intrinsic merits or demerits of a constitution.†   (source)
  • Those who can best discern the intrinsic difficulty of the thing, will be least hasty in condemning that opinion, and will be most inclined to allow due weight to the arguments which may be supposed to have produced it.†   (source)
  • of the Union should be able to withstand the ambitious aims of those men who may indulge magnificent schemes of personal aggrandizement from its dissolution, the probability would be, that we should run into the project of conferring supplementary powers upon Congress, as they are now constituted; and either the machine, from the intrinsic feebleness of its structure, will moulder into pieces, in spite of our ill-judged efforts to prop it; or, by successive augmentations of its force an energy, as necessity might prompt, we shall finally accumulate, in a single body, all the most important prerogatives of sovereignty, and thus entail upon our posterity one of the most execrabl†   (source)
  • The intrinsic difficulty of governing thirteen States at any rate, independent of calculations upon an ordinary degree of public spirit and integrity, will, in my opinion constantly impose on the national rulers the necessity of a spirit of accommodation to the reasonable expectations of their constituents.†   (source)
  • The proof of this proposition turns upon the greater degree of influence which the State governments if they administer their affairs with uprightness and prudence, will generally possess over the people; a circumstance which at the same time teaches us that there is an inherent and intrinsic weakness in all federal constitutions; and that too much pains cannot be taken in their organization, to give them all the force which is compatible with the principles of liberty.†   (source)
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