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" To conclude, this Edge and piece of a Razor, if it had been really such as it appear'd through the Microscope, would scarcely have serv'd to cleave wood, much less to have cut off the hair of beards, unless it were after the manner that Lucian merrily relates Charon to have made use of, when with a Carpenters Axe he chop'd off the beard of a sage Philosopher, whose gravity he very cautiously fear'd would indanger the oversetting of his Wherry.
If further, by any means you so flaw a pretty thick piece, that one part does begin to cleave a little from the other, and between those two there be by any means gotten some pellucid medium, those laminated pellucid bodies that fill that space, shall exhibit several Rainbows or coloured Lines, the colours of which will be disposed and ranged according to the various thicknesses of the several parts of that Plate.
Militarism has just now compelled me to pay a thousand pounds war taxation in order that some ""brave little Servian"" may be facilitated in cutting your throat or, that a Russian mujik may cleave your skull in twain, although I would gladly pay twice that sum to save your life, or to buy some beautiful picture in Vienna for our National Gallery.
Not to cleave to any person, be it even the dearest-every person is a prison and also a recess.
Not to cleave to a fatherland, be it even the most suffering and necessitous-it is even less difficult to detach one's heart from a victorious fatherland.
Not to cleave to a sympathy, be it even for higher men, into whose peculiar torture and helplessness chance has given us an insight.
Not to cleave to a science, though it tempt one with the most valuable discoveries, apparently specially reserved for us.
Not to cleave to one's own liberation, to the voluptuous distance and remoteness of the bird, which always flies further aloft in order always to see more under it-the danger of the flier.
Not to cleave to our own virtues, nor become as a whole a victim to any of our specialties, to our ""hospitality"" for instance, which is the danger of dangers for highly developed and wealthy souls, who deal prodigally, almost indifferently with themselves, and push the virtue of liberality so far that it becomes a vice.
"" They alluded to God’s creation of a wife from Adam’s rib ""and for this cause a man shall leave father and mother, and cleave unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh,"" and that ""this is a great mystery""; they prayed that God would make them fruitful and bless them, like Isaac and Rebecca, Joseph, Moses and Zipporah, and that they might look upon their children’s children.
What's amazing is how Rowling manages to cleave strictly to this formula, yet provide such a wealth of new details and such deep, dangerous plots that every book seems completely new.
The notion that blacks cleave to Clinton because he does the pimp walk, eats fried chicken, and reminds them of unwed motherhood trades on noxious racial stereotypes and implies that African-Americans lack the ability to make rational political decisions.
Although the book offers a good coverage of universal abbreviations, acronyms, and what are these days called “initialisms” in its 27,000 entries and “over” 37,000 definitions and goes into British material quite thoroughly, it is too sparse in its inclusion of American matter to make it of significant usefulness to American users, who should cleave to the De Sola dictionaries of abbreviations.
In a book dealing with a subject of this sort one must be extremely careful to cleave to rigid definitions of the key terms ( euphemism, dysphemism, taboo , etc.
Far from inclining to French, these natives cleave to British schoolboy slang, a hard-dying lingo.
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