7 Metaphors for accumulation

p. 56, 70.] Such an accumulation of powers was itself a great source of authority, and rendered the jurisdiction of the court formidable to all the subjects; but the turn which judicial trials took soon after the Conquest served still more to increase its authority, and to augment the royal prerogatives.

But mere accumulation of facts was not knowledge, for "learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

More than once it had occurred to him that his accumulations of Notes were dangerous explosives to store in a private house.

Just as religion, war, learning, invention and discovery have been the moving passions of former ages, so now the accumulation of large fortunes is the main object that moves man.

The American social accumulation is a various collection of cuttings thrust into a new soil and respiring a new air, so different that the question is still open to doubt, and indeed there are those who do doubt, how far these cuttings are actually striking root and living and growing, whether indeed they are destined to more than a temporary life in the new hemisphere.

These different accumulations were the work of time and address, and most of the company had repeatedly changed their plates before Aristabulus had eaten a mouthful, the soup excepted.

You have also been told that slang constantly changes, so that one's accumulations of it today will be a profitless clutter tomorrow.

7 Metaphors for  accumulation