"Wideness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... interests of the average man, the wideness of his contacts—the whole tradition of his sex—tends to minimise the injury that may be done to him, intellectually and spiritually, by anything of this kind. The very fact that he is the woman's inferior spiritually, and in many cases, in intellect, also—although probably not at the ...
— A Librarian's Open Shelf • Arthur E. Bostwick
... enough to Lucrezia. Yet to-day, perhaps because she was dressed in her best on a day that was not a festa, and wore a silver chain with a coral charm on it, and had shoes on her feet, there seemed to her a newness, almost a strangeness in the wideness and the silence, in the sunshine and the music, something that made her breathe out a sigh, and stare with almost wondering eyes on Etna and the sea. She soon lost her vague sensation that her life lay, perhaps, in a home of magic, however, when she looked again at the mule track which wound upward ...
— The Call of the Blood • Robert Smythe Hichens
... said for a time. Marise lost herself in the outdoor wideness of impression that always came to her under a night sky, where she felt infinity hovering near. She was aware of nothing but the faint voice of the pines, the distant diminuendo of the frog's song, the firm elastic quality of the ground under her feet, so different ...
— The Brimming Cup • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... the Church included the whole world (see S. Matt. xxviii. 19). The wilfulness of man in refusing to believe cannot alter that intention though it spoils the completion of it. "God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son"—thus the wideness of His loving intention was set forth—"that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish" (S. John iii. 16)—thus the necessity of man's belief, in order that the intention might be carried out, was ...
— The Kingdom of Heaven; What is it? • Edward Burbidge
... do swine delight in dirt? A. As physicians do say, they are naturally delighted with it, because they have a great liver, in which desire it, as Aristotle saith, the wideness of their snout is the case, for he that hath smelling which doth dissolve itself, and as it were ...
— The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher • Anonymous |
