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So Who Knows? 2008

Authority was now conceived to be the voluntary creation of natural individuals for the ex - pressly political function of providing the coercive power of governments with an origin and a purpose which transcended this power but was directly relevant to it.

AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968

When Vico, for instance, spoke of there being an “ideal eternal history ... whose course is run in time by the histories of all nations” (Scienza nuova, §114), he ex - pressly repudiated the suggestion that he was postulat - ing a divine “potter who molds things outside himself.”

CAUSATION IN HISTORY PATRICK GARDINER 1968

No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.

Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909

No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered ....

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.

The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 James Stalker 1887

No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.

Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography Mark Twain 1872

No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.

What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872

Or does not Ben Jonson sum up just those characteristics which extempore composition (even the best) entirely wants, when he tells us of Bacon that 'no man ever wrote more neatly, more pressly; nor suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in that he uttered?'

The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862

It was for the bar of 'foreign nations and future ages' that this defence was prepared: the speaker who speaks so 'pressly,' is the lawyer; and there is nothing left unsaid at last.

The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded Delia Bacon 1835