They imagine that mankind, after death, become voorthoolakases, and often pay visits to their friends and foes for the same reasons, and in the same way, that our own country ghosts walk abroad; and their visiting hour is, also, midnight.

The rocks are fraying one another down to desert sand, and mankind becomes a new Sahara.

"Mankind was my business.

CHAPTER IV MANAGERIAL WICKEDNESS Of all the vested rights that mankind is heir to none is more sacred than the right of an actor to abuse his manager.

And I prove it thus: it is not incredible to natural reason that God made the world, and all the creatures in it; that mankind is His offspring; and that He gives us life and breath, and all things.

But not such self-sacrifices as too many have fancied who did not believe that mankind was a blessed race, and this earth a blessed place.

Though all mankind are speakers in a sense, How few can soar to heights of eloquence!

Needless was an addition to such arms, When all mankind were vassals to your charms: That hand but seen, gives wonder and desire, Snow to the fight, but with its touches fire!

As the mosquito produces no honey, mankind in general are not as sweet upon it as they are upon that bigger hum-bug, the buzzy bee; yet it is so far akin to the bee, that, wherever it forages, it produces something closely resembling Hives.

Mankind is a common noun, collective, of the third person, conveying the idea of plurality, masculine gender, and objective case.

One might say with truth, Mankind are the devils of the earth, and the animals the souls they torment.

Mankind is not a mere collection of detached individuals, or man could possess no knowledge of any unity of scientific truth.

That mankind is one vast republick, where every individual receives many benefits from the labours of others, which, by labouring in his turn for others, he is obliged to repay; and that where the united efforts of all are not able to exempt all from misery, none have a right to withdraw from their task of vigilance, or to be indulged in idle wisdom or solitary pleasures.

He is his own favourite, and advances himself not only above his merit, but all mankind; is both Damon and Pythias to his own dear self, and values his crony above his soul.

Mankind can be a priest to mankindalso a Satan!