Night and day, despite a bombardment without precedent, you have resisted all attacks and maintained our positions.
This war remains for the German Government what it was in the beginning and what has been maintained in every pronunciamento--a defensive war of the German Nation for its future.
He mingled things personal and high politics with a fascinating air of letting out secrets at every word; and, throughout, he maintained a tantalizing discretion about his own position.
The strict supervision maintained over the Jiro family was relaxed.
In the library a footman, on duty in the room, maintained a good fire, and the French windows were left unfastened, as the young gentlemen would probably enter the house that way.
During the short time that these Ministers continued in office, the understanding between them and the Prince was by no means of that cordial and confidential kind, which had been invariably maintained during the life-time of Mr. Fox.
I know not that I have hitherto shrunk in place from opinions I have maintained while in opposition.
How manfully he maintained his ground in a position so critical, the annals of England and of the Champions of her Constitution will long testify.
As the kite maintained its lateral equilibrium, they let go the cords; the kite then stood almost vertically above me and I also had to free it.
It may be reasonably maintained that the strength of Anglicanism, though it be not in establishment, is in aristocracy, and its shadow, which is called snobbishness.
It may be reasonably maintained that the strength of Romanism, though it be not in any national police, is in a moral police more rigid and vigilant.
The Sung emperors, cloistered gentlemen in the worst sense of the term, had maintained peace in their slowly shrinking domain by buying off belligerent neighbors and occasionally even ceding border territories.
Later Ch'anists have maintained that Hung-jen taught both the Diamond Sutra and the Lankavatara Sutra, the respective scriptures of what came to be called Southern and Northern schools of Ch'an.
Dogen maintained this first pure Zen monastery for a decade, during which time he composed forty more sections of his classic Shobogenzo.
These reformers hoped that Buddhism in China had maintained its integrity and discipline during the several centuries of separation.
Japanese emperors had a large number of women at their disposal, through whom they scattered a host of progeny, not all of which could be maintained idle in Kyoto.
After studying for two years while simultaneously nosing about other nearby monasteries, Dogen finally decided to travel, hoping others of the "five houses" had maintained discipline.
An example of happier relations between farmer and merchant is the rest room for farmers' wives maintained in Dillon by the Good Government Club.
Forty-five miles of highway have been built by the State between Pierre and Harrold and are maintained by the county.
This is graded road and it is maintained partly by the Federal Government, which pays 50 per cent.
The Durbar supports the school, which is entirely free and open; a just distinction being maintained between the various castes.
Marcion, for instance, maintained a Gospel varying from the recognised one, while the Ebionites contended that their Hebrew Gospel was the only true one.
Arius maintained that "the Logos was a dependent and spontaneous production, created from nothing by the will of the Father.
He maintained that in Christ there was only one nature, "that of the incarnate word," and his opinion was endorsed by a council called at Ephesus, A.
Critics have maintained very free and conflicting views regarding that source.
Then we have the Apollinarians, who maintained that Christ had no human soul, the divinity supplying its place; the Marcellians, who taught that a divine emanation descended on Christ.
Lactantius, indeed, inveighed against the folly of those who believed in the existence of the antipodes, and Augustine maintained that it was impossible there should be people living on the other side of the earth.
Photius, and union might have been maintained but for the extravagant demands of the Roman pontiff, who required the degradation of all priests and bishops ordained by Photius.
The Ebionites maintained that the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew was the only authentic Gospel, and regarded the four Greek Gospels as unreliable.
The natural inclination to think ill of one's neighbour was only heightened at this time through the profound secrecy maintained by the government.
Count Holck had lost his credit long before the journey to Holstein, and only maintained himself by old associations, and because no one exactly tried to injure him with the king.
If anything is done to the royal law, the right of reigning is lost (I write juridically, and do not suppose that the law is maintained by the sword).
The balance between the two desires is well maintained by Nature; and it should be carefullymaintained by those who train the young, if the communicative instinct as a whole is to make healthy growth.
The baron was maintainedin his castle on the produce of the estate.
He had seen that no Ministers were ever more popular in England than the two Pitts; and they were popular because they maintained in arms the greatness of their country.
He maintained his state in the outward splendour which belonged to his station, but in private he lived as frugally as his tenants, sleeping on a hard bed, eating hard, plain food, with luxury unheard of and undreamt of.
Chimneys still smoke and engines clank, and the volume of our foreign trade does not diminish, but if the volume is maintained the profits fall, and our articles must be produced cheaper and ever cheaper if we are to hold our ground.
Me walk well as Davy and Rhys,' maintained he proudly, and trudged on sturdily so long as the road descended and had been clean washed by rain.
He showed a brave face to friends and envious foes, and maintained that no man should forfeit his guarantee.
The impossibility of believing that one contrary is identical with its contrary, is maintained by Sokrates in Plato, Theaetetus, p.
Scotus maintained that the Cogitable or Incorporeal Universal was the first, the true and complete real; from whence the sensible individuals were secondary, incomplete, multiple, derivatives.
Aristotle farther maintained correspondence, not merely with Alexander and Antipater but also with Themison, one of the princes of Cyprus, as Isokrates had corresponded with Nikokles, and Plato with Dionysius of Syracuse.
Thus, when the thesis to be maintained is an universal affirmative (e.
Or let the thesis maintained be, The virtuous man is envious.
Each special precept of justice is to be examined on its own ground to ascertain whether it be for the advantage of all that it should be maintained unaltered, or whether the subversion of it would occasion mischief.
The Maxim of Excluded Middle is maintained by Aristotle as a doctrine in opposition to this theory of Anaxagoras.
These two had in common the quality, that they maintained an equal and unshaken temper both in prosperity and adversity.
There are various passages of Aristotle which appear almost identical with the moral doctrine subsequently maintained by the Stoic school: for example--iii.
Eudoxus laid down the principle that happiness consists in pleasure: others have maintained the opinion that it is entirely independent both of pleasure and pain--that the former is no good, and the latter no evil (i.
The style maintained by Washington early became a subject of party controversy and to this may be attributed a noticeable variation in accounts given by different authors.
He wanted to know whether it was maintained that the frigates it was proposed to build would "boldly march upon land and break the chains of the prisoners?
Humanity dictates a provision for the poor; but by what right, moral or political, does any government assume to say, that the person called the Duke of Richmond, shall be maintained by the public?
Their station requires no artifice to support it, and can only be maintainedby enlightening mankind.
Among the numerous instances of abuse which have been acted or protected by governments, ancient or modern, there is not a greater than that of quartering a man and his heirs upon the public, to bemaintained at its expense.
Burke maintained that if the existing political order were broken up there would be no longer a people, but " a number of vague, loose individuals, and nothing more.
While Paine maintained freedom of discussion, Burke first proposed criminal prosecution for sentiments by no means libellous (such as Paine's Part First).
In such a case it can scarcely be doubted that the distinctness of the two forms in the places where they co-exist is maintained by the seasonal isolation.
The practical uniformity, for example, of so many species of birds which inhabit widely extended ranges of Western Europe is doubtless maintained by such constant diffusion.
Such a relation of images may be maintained even in minute details.
The problem would remain, how is the distinctness of the two types maintained in the region of overlapping?
In face of these facts it can scarcely be maintained that average temperature is the efficient cause of the particular tone of colour which the butterfly shows in a given region.
Great Britain had more than maintained her own on the sea; Napoleon had proved his consummate skill in the manipulation of land forces.
A steady fire was maintained for an hour before Captain Dixon, who had hoped to reach the enemy’s works while the ships were engaging some of the French defenders, decided that the experiment was too dangerous.
Some fifteen or twenty minutes after Collingwood had maintained the unequal contest alone, several British ships came up and paid attention to those of the enemy which had gone to Alava’s assistance.
The guns of Cronenburg Castle, dominating the Sound, blazed away, as did those on the armed hulks with which the Danes had hoped to defend the narrow channel, but the Swedish guns maintained a stolid silence.
But he maintained a bold front, and never let the respective commanders know what he thought of them.
Dumouriez at that time maintained himself by his writings, and Lord Nelson forced him to accept a hundred pounds, telling him he had used his sword too well to live only by his pen.
Yet Grace, which thus maintained itself in the extremest adversity, would be dead, without its transfiguration by the Soul.
The Tacazze is lost among the sands before rejoining it, and the Blue Nile, well-nigh deprived of tributaries, is but scantilymaintained by Abyssinian snows.
It barelymaintained an existence on the left bank of the Nile, if not on the exact spot now occupied by Girgeh, at least only a short distance from it.
The hippopotamus long maintained its ground before returning to those equatorial regions whence it had been brought by the Nile.
Since this ceiling could not remain in mid-air without support, four columns, or rather four forked trunks of trees, similar to those which maintained the primitive house, were supposed to uphold it.
Sît was the first to plead, and he maintained that Horus was not the son of Osiris, but a bastard, whom Isis haô conceived after the death of her husband.
Lawrence is Haskell institute (1884), one of the largest Indian schools in the country, maintained for children of the tribal Indians by the national government.
Many of the rest are unknown; while the more powerful cities of Aricia, Lanuvium and Tusculum, though situated immediately on the Alban Hills, are not included, and appear to have maintained a wholly independent position.
Admetus is inscribed to Emerson, who greatly influenced her, and with whom she maintained a regular correspondence for several years.
He maintained to the end of his life a rustic simplicity of speech and demeanour.
He maintained his reputation and was uniformly successful in his battles at sea, but they were not always fought for the defence of Sicily.
In 1881 the distinctive features of their style were more marked, and the brothers first established firmly the supremacy which they maintained almost without interruption for the next eight years.
The work is distinguished by the lucidity of its style, but the fulness and extent of the authorities referred to, and, above all, by the judicial impartiality maintained by the author throughout.
I nowhere saw or heard of such plantations existing as institutions maintained by the natives themselves.
The region drained by the Lulongo being of great fertility has, in the past, maintained a large population.
The once villages and their fields had been converted into a very well-laid-out and admirably-maintained military station.
Here all was brightness, care, order, and activity, and it was impossible not to admire and commend the industry which had created and maintained in constant working order this useful establishment.
It is difficult to exactly estimate the number of soldiers enrolled and maintained by the Congo Government.
This pleasant green character is maintained until Hampstead Heath and the country proper is reached, and over this rural stretch of North-west London the birds come and go freely between the country and Regent's Park.
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