254 Metaphors for powering

and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest POWER is the BEST?

For this reason also a father is reviled by his son, when he gives no part to his son of the things which are considered to be good; and it was this which made Polynices and Eteocles enemies, the opinion that royal power was a good.

Power was his aim: but, thrown from that pretence, 50 The wretch turn'd loyal in his own defence; And malice reconciled him to his prince.

Unrestricted and absolute power in the hands of a king was the only government he believed in.

We know that such mental qualities as irritability and stupidity, fatigability, and the power to recover quickly or slowly from fatigue, sexual potency and impotence, apathy and enthusiasm are endocrine qualities.

In it the propagandist power, whatever that power might be, state, university or association, would print not simply, instruction books but a literature of cheap editions.

This power was the Turknot merely a single nation, but a whole group of peoples clustered round a nation, inspired by one single idea which urged them ever forward"There is no god but God, and Mahomet is the apostle of God.

In mythology, Proteus was the son of Oceanus and Tethys, whose special power was his faculty for lightning changes. "Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea."Wordsworth.]

"Mr. Power is a very old friend and we haven't met for so long.

It was additionally interesting because the sea-power of Japan was a novelty.

Exclusive political power is also a great ally in the accumulation of money, and a portion have the sagacity to see it; though I suspect more pine for the vanities of the exclusive classes, than for the substance.

Political power in the Old Kingdom was a tight monopoly held by the ruling dynasty of the period.

Time wore on, and showed that the power of the martyr-spirit is not always that of the champion of worldly success, for it was now but a struggle between George Lindsay, with a stained name, and the stern demon of misfortune.

The Epistle to the Romans surveyed the moral failure of the world; St. Paul looked on the chasm between knowledge and action, the "unbridged gulf, this incredible inability of man to do what was right, with profound wonder"; but in the face of this hopeless spectacle he dared to prophesy the moral elevation which we have witnessed, and the power to which he looked to bring it about was the Christian doctrines.

The use of meditation is the acquirement of a knowledge of eternal principles, and the power which results from meditation is the ability to rest upon and trust those principles, and so become one with the Eternal.

The senses, the powers of the soul, and all outward resources are so many vistas opening upon Divinity, so many ways of tasting and adoring God.

I see all the despots of the European continent united in a crusade against liberty; there are two powers still neutral, the position of which may well decide for or against despotism; these two powers are Great Britain and America.

So shall Russia be made a power before which all other European powers shall be pigmies.

If the political power of the Negro was a nullity because of his ignorance and lack of leadership, why were they not content to leave it so, with the pleasing assurance that if it ever became effective, it would be because the Negroes had grown fit for its exercise?

The power of completely concealing the defects that she must have, is of itself a serious vice.

And, it would be much more reasonable to affirm, that the government of Rome continued the same under Justinian, as it was in the time of Scipio, because the senate and consuls still remained, although the power of both had been several hundred years transferred to the emperors.

Cold, he said, is only the absence of the power of heat, and the active power of expansion in freezing water is an incidental and not an essential part of the nature of cold.

They should consider, before they call too loudly for encomiums, that they live in an age, when the power of gold is no longer a secret, and in which no man finds much difficulty in making a bargain, with money in his hand.

The power of arraigning the high officers of government before a tribunal whose sentence may expel them from their seats and brand them as infamous is eminently a popular remedya remedy designed to be employed for the protection of private right and public liberty against the abuses of injustice and the encroachments of arbitrary power.

The instinctive power is there, however: to recognize, not to live, the highest.

254 Metaphors for  powering