“Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.” PeopleIfsHas BeensCountryLastsHeavenPoorLordBloodLandFieldsArmsBattleHundredFoundationSlaveSoldierBonesSweatShelterPeasantsMansionsBe A SlaveSaturated Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
“Remembering that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.” TwoEarthRememberCoursesHeavenMillionsSunFiveTheoryThousandHundredShadowMethodCastsMathematicalThirtyFiftyPaceInclinationEmploying Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“Seek for a fresh invoice of grace. Unbelief can scoff or growl; faith is the nightingale that sings in the darkest hour. Faith can draw honey out of the rock and oil out of the flint. With Christ in possession and heaven in reversion, it marches to the time of the One-hundred-and-third Psalm over the roughest road, and against the most cutting blast.” HeavenChristHoursGraceCuttingRocksDrawsHundredThirdsPossessionOilMarchHoneyBlastUnbeliefPsalmsNightingalesDarkest Hour Author:Theodore L. Cuyler
“Seven hundred thousand men are said to have perished in the first two expeditions, which had been thus commenced and carried on by the pious zeal of the Christian church, and in the total amount, several million were found numbered with the dead: the awful effects of religious fanaticism presuming upon the aid of heaven.” MenFirstsSaidTwoChristianEvilFoundHeavenChurchReligiousMillionsEffectsAmountThousandHundredSevenAidsAwfulZealFanaticismPiousChristian ChurchExpeditionsPresuming Book:Principles of Nature Or A Developement of the Moral Causes of Hapiness and Misery Among the Human Species Source: Principles of Nature Or A Developement of the Moral Causes of Hapiness and Misery Among the Human Species