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«Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.»
Author: Thomas Bowdler
(Man of letter, Philanthropist, Physician)
| Keywords:
aloud, expressions, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, propriety
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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affairs, afloat, bound, clouds, current, flood, flood tide, folded, folding, fold up, man of affairs, miseries, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, shallows, The Clouds, The Current, The Flood, tide, voyage
«Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.»
«We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
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concealed, gold mine, grossest, instructions, nurses, omitted
«I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Posterity
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explained, intentionally, kindly, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, Others The, posterity, so as to, The Pleasure
«Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.»
«The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
| About:
Historians,
Religion
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conduce, conduced, conduces, discredit, discredited, Eusebius, ingenuously, omitted, piously, tended, tended to
«There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.»
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