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“As in the presence of the Master, the Servants are equall, and without any honour at all; So are the Subjects, in the presence of the Soveraign. And though they shine some more, some lesse, when they are out of his sight; yet in his presence, they shine no more than the Starres in presence of the Sun.”

Sun Subjects Masters Sight Shining Servant Honour

Book:Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.”

“Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. I saw it in the daylight, with the sun upon it. There was no wind, no rain, no lightning, no thunder, no awful or unwonted circumstance, of any kind, to heighten its effect.”

Firsts Kind House Sun Saws Pieces Subjects Effects Wind Circumstances Rain Awful Conventional Lightning Thunder Surroundings Acquaintance Daylight Spooky

Book:Ghost stories

Source: Ghost stories

“Nobody draws the light for covered wine rooms from the south or west, but rather from the north, since that quarter is never subject to change but is always constant and unshifting. So it is with granaries: grain exposed to the sun's course soon loses its good quality, and provisions and fruit, unless stored in a place unexposed to the sun's course, do not keep long.”

Long Light Courses Loses Rooms Quality Sun Subjects Draws Wine Constant West South Fruit Covered Exposed Quarters Grain Provision Good Quality Red Wine

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in due subordination to the fulness and freshness of their knowledge on moral subjects. ... Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.”

Ifs Light Beautiful Stars Powerful Sun Wise Subjects Planets Intelligent Fixed Centre Dominion Comets Wise Counsel

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

“Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more inconstant than opinion, which turns round in an everlasting circle like the wheel of fortune. He who reaps praise today is overwhelmed with biting censure tomorrow; today we trample under foot the man who tomorrow will be raised far above us.”

Men Today Turns Opinion Sun Feet Subjects He Man Tomorrow Praise Fortune Raised Rounds Circles Wheels Overwhelmed Everlasting Reap Censure Biting Transience Wheel Of Fortune

Book:The Best Tales of Hoffmann

Source: The Best Tales of Hoffmann

“Sex is still the most interesting subject under the sun. People will say my wife is too tired or my husband is too tired, and I listen and I say 'go for help.'”

People Stills Helping Sex Interesting Sun Wife Subjects Husband Tired My Wife My Husband Most Interesting

Author:Ruth Westheimer

“If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Important Different Real Stories Common Sun Written Subjects Kings Walking Eternity Down And Significant Setting Settings Rising Companion Halls Palaces Eugene O Neill

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer