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«If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Caring,
Women
| Keywords:
foment, ladies, rebellion, representation, representations
«Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.»
Author: Alexander MacLaren
| Keywords:
canvas, dipping, dips, dip into, flings, representation, representations, shadows, somber, stretches, The Long Dark, tint, tinted, tints, true to
«Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.»
«Taxation without representation is tyranny»
«I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of boates & Vessels, dressd and adornd with all imaginabe Pomp: but, above all, the Thrones, Arches, Pageants & other representations, stately barges of the Lord Major, & Companies, with varius Inventions, musique, & Peales of Ordnance from both the vessels & shore, going to meet & Conduct the new Queene from Hampton Court to White-hall, at the first time of her Coming to Towne, exceeding in my opinion, all the Venetian Bucentoro?s &c on the Ascention, when they go to Espouse the Adriatic: his Majestie & the Queene, came in an antique-shaped open Vessell, covered with a State or Canopy of Cloth of Gold, made in forme of a Cupola, supported with high Corinthian Pillars, wreathed with flowers, festoones & Gyrlands: I was in our new-built Vessell, sailing amongst them»
Author: John Evelyn
(Writer)
| About:
History,
Literature,
Society
| Keywords:
Adriatic, antique, antiques, arches, canopy, cloth, companies, Considering, Corinthian, cupola, espouse, espoused, Hampton, innumerable, magnificent, ordnance, pageant, pageants, pillars, pomp, representations, sailing vessel, stately, supported, Thames, The Adriatic, thrones, Venetian, wreathe, wreathed
«A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation»
Author: Frank Herbert
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
antithesis, creating, representation, representations
«Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Work,
World
| Keywords:
absolute, absolute truth, confuse, describe, Point of, point of view, representation, representations, The Absolute, world view
«Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
abound, abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, doomed, entities, formal, minor, representation, representations, rightful, significance, symbolic, symbolic representation
«From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, you make something through your invention that is not a representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true and al»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| Keywords:
have happened, invention, representation, representations, truer
«Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and, therefore, few only can judge how nearly they are copied.»
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