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1. Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year, without employment
2. No large country, it must be observed, ever did or could subsist without some sort of manufactures being carried on in it ; and when it is said of any such country that it has no manufactures, it must always be understood of the finer and more improved, or of such as are fit for distant sale
3. As the strongest bodies only can live and enjoy health under an unwholesome regimen, so the nations only, that in every sort of industry have the greatest natural and acquired advantages, can subsist and prosper under such taxes
4. But whether it does so likewise with regard to that part of its capital for which the receipts are long ago expired, for which, in ordinary and quiet times, it cannot be called upon, and which, in reality, is very likely to remain with it for ever, or as long as the states of the United Provinces subsist, may perhaps appear more uncertain
5. It was upon this silly notion, however, that England could not subsist without the Portugal trade, that, towards the end of the late war, France and Spain, without pretending either offence or provocation, required the king of Portugal to exclude all British ships from his ports, and, for the security of this exclusion, to receive into them French or Spanish garrisons
6. It might dispose them not only to respect, for whole centuries together, that treaty of commerce which they had concluded with us at parting, but to favour us in war as well as in trade, and instead of turbulent and factious subjects, to become our most faithful, affectionate, and generous allies; and the same sort of parental affection on the one side, and filial respect on the other, might revive between Great Britain and her colonies, which used to subsist between those of ancient Greece and the mother city from which they descended
7. The one exports what can subsist and accommodate but a very few, and imports the subsistence and accommodation of a great number
8. Such systems, such sciences, can subsist nowhere but in those incorporated societies for education, whose prosperity and revenue are in a great measure independent of their industry
9. The constitution which this act established, was allowed to subsist for about two-and-twenty years, but was abolished by the 10th of queen Anne, ch
10. The taxes which at present subsist upon foreign manufactures, if you except those upon the few contained in the foregoing enumeration, have, the greater part of them, been imposed for the purpose, not of revenue, but of monopoly, or to give our own merchants an advantage in the home market
11. 2 billion people subsist on a dollar [U
12. Ea designed and made a dominant strategy and made His counter spell, sovereign and holy that He recited and made it subsist in the deep, spilling sleep on Apsu
13. 6 And the angel said to Adam and Eve, "God says to you that you have not strength to fast until death; eat therefore, and strengthen your bodies, for you are now animal flesh, that cannot subsist without food and drink
14. 6 And the angel said to Adam and Eve "God says to you that you have not strength to fast until death; eat therefore and strengthen your bodies for you are now animal flesh that cannot subsist without food and drink
15. We also brought with us some funds to help our queen subsist in Paris and will take any letter she wishes to send to her loyal followers in England
16. connection here declared to subsist between
17. But how the All Knowing God had failed to realize that His faithful wouldn’t be able to subsist for long on a daily diet of fifty prayers is the question that the Musalmans should ponder over!
18. “Yet others who subsist on strictly regulated breath and offer
19. whereas all of them subsist only in a seeker whose meditation has
20. al desires subsist on nothing but sin
21. producers)who have to subsist in a commercial world or — as in the case of public servicebroadcasting —
22. If 30 out of a 100 bears feast royally, while 70 barely subsist or starve; would you say that this species has found their optimal form of existence? Would you consider their species to be successful? The only point in human existence is to become a successful human, just as the only point in the bear’s existence is to become a successful bear
23. Souls therefore receive their life and their perpetual duration as a donation from God continuing in being from non-existence because God wills them to exist and to subsist
24. their little heads, that on earth there cannot subsist anything more silly,
25. `- all the very best of everything is reserved exclusively for the enjoyment of the people in divisions one and two, while the workers subsist on block ornaments, margarine, adulterated tea, mysterious beer, and are content - only grumbling when they are unable to obtain even such fare as this
26. in it anything of gravity contains preparation should be with importance commensurate and therefore a plan was by them adopted (whether by having preconsidered or as the maturation of experience it is difficult in being said which the discrepant opinions of subsequent inquirers are not up to the present congrued to render manifest) whereby maternity was so far from all accident possibility removed that whatever care the patient in that all hardest of woman hour chiefly required and not solely for the copiously opulent but also for her who not being sufficiently moneyed scarcely and often not even scarcely could subsist valiantly and for an inconsiderable emolument was provided
27. Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 1 9 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity
28. Until the snafu was straightened out, he had to subsist on candy bars from Red Cross nurses
29. There was a time when I had willpower, when I could run 10k before breakfast and subsist for weeks on thirteen hundred calories a day
30. Glass; he would have to subsist on canned tunafish for the rest of the month, but it was worth it
31. the New Hospital than that which will subsist in the fact that I chiefly supplied the expenses of building it, and have contributed further large sums to its successful working
32. “Was anyone helping him subsist illegally in his upstairs apartment?” the officer clarified
33. " Then she gave her a small piece of dry bread, saying, "On that you must subsist the whole day
34. No one knows what such people subsist on
35. But how to obtain the beginning of such useful development?" In answer, it may be asked, why should not the early progenitors of the whales with baleen have possessed a mouth constructed something like the lamellated beak of a duck? Ducks, like whales, subsist by sifting the mud and water; and the family has sometimes been called Criblatores, or sifters
36. I give this catalogue so precisely because, as it happened, we were destined to subsist upon this store for the next fortnight
37. And all these tens of thousands of unhappy people sleep in hovels, and subsist upon strong drink and wretched food
38. In Russia there are millions of men who possess nothing and subsist entirely by their own toil
39. What kind of life could subsist if all living creatures were joined together by the bonds of love? None
40. Past experience, however, hath evidently shown that similar legislative indulgences have enured almost exclusively to the advantage of the unprincipled speculator, and those who avail themselves of the ignorance and subsist upon the misfortunes of others
41. According to their estimate of human life and its obligations, both political and moral duties emanate from the nature of things, and from the essential and eternal relations which subsist among them
1. Such was the Greek empire as long as it subsisted, and that of the Saracens during the reigns of the Abassides
2. The advantageous situation of the country, and the great number of independent status which at that time subsisted in it, probably contributed not a little to this general cultivation
3. When the act of navigation was made, though England and Holland were not actually at war, the most violent animosity subsisted between the two nations
4. It was about the same time that the French and English began mutually to oppress each other's industry, by the like duties and prohibitions, of which the French, however, seem to have set the first example, The spirit of hostility which has subsisted between the two nations ever since, has hitherto hindered them from being moderated on either side
5. The revolutions which the turbulence of the Greek clergy was continually occasioning at Constantinople, as long as the eastern empire subsisted; the convulsions which, during the course of several centuries, the turbulence of the Roman clergy was continually occasioning in every part of Europe, sufficiently demonstrate how precarious and insecure must always be the situation of the sovereign, who has no proper means of influencing the clergy of the established and governing religion of his country
6. - But what amount of follies you said, Camila! Do you think it is very nice what you just said? Witchcraft has centuries of existence and its potions, spells and witches have subsisted without your intervention; but if you are so worried about the flavors, scents and ingredients, then, become a cooker instead of a sorceress! -This was the only answer I got when she got out of the basement giving a slammed door
7. If the species subsisted on a meat diet, then tools were needed to bring home the bacon
8. Bollobanes were a huge group within this city, who subsisted in
9. subsisted on the food that grew naturally,
10. Anselmo remarked the cessation of Lothario's visits, and complained of it to him, saying that if he had known that marriage was to keep him from enjoying his society as he used, he would have never married; and that, if by the thorough harmony that subsisted between them while he was a bachelor they had earned such a sweet name as that of "The Two Friends," he should not allow a title so rare and so delightful to be lost through a needless anxiety to act circumspectly; and so he entreated him, if such a phrase was allowable between them, to be once more master of his house and to come in and go out as formerly, assuring him that his wife Camilla had no other desire or inclination than that which he would wish her to have, and that knowing how sincerely they loved one another she was grieved to see such coldness in him
11. my babe dissolved the only tie which subsisted between me and my, what is
12. That some kind of engagement had subsisted between Willoughby and Marianne she could not doubt, and that Willoughby was weary of it, seemed equally clear; for however Marianne might still feed her own wishes, she could not attribute such behaviour to mistake or misapprehension of any kind
13. "His regard for her, infinitely surpassing anything that Willoughby ever felt or feigned, as much more warm, as more sincere or constant--which ever we are to call it-- has subsisted through all the knowledge of dear Marianne's unhappy prepossession for that worthless young man!--and without selfishness--without encouraging a hope!--could he have seen her happy with another--Such a noble mind!-- such openness, such sincerity!--no one can be deceived in him
14. First then he sold the slaves, and subsisted for a time on the proceeds, after that
15. They also had no mouths, since they subsisted entirely on the nourishing quality of the octarine wavelength in the Discworld’s sunlight, which they absorbed through their skins
16. Little, if any, community of feeling subsisted between them and Estella, but the understanding was established that they were necessary to her, and that she was necessary to them
17. On these fifteen hundred francs these two old women and the old man subsisted
18. Though the smell that wafted from him indicated that he cut fairly close to the Creators’ strict laws of cleanliness, for a forest bandit, his breath suggested he subsisted solely on raw garlic, onions, and the sort of wine that to Rob’s mind represented a waste of good turpentine
19. It has been asked by the opponents of such views as I hold, how, for instance, could a land carnivorous animal have been converted into one with aquatic habits; for how could the animal in its transitional state have subsisted? It would be easy to show that there now exist carnivorous animals presenting close intermediate grades from strictly terrestrial to aquatic habits; and as each exists by a struggle for life, it is clear that each must be well adapted to its place in nature
20. In other places human beings were seldom seen, and I generally subsisted on the wild animals that crossed my path
21. Between the inhabitants of those colonies and the citizens of the United States, the most friendly and mutually useful intercourse subsisted
1. The whole stock of mere dwelling-houses, too, subsisting at anyone time in the country, make a part of this first portion
2. John and the lad lived very simply, subsisting on mutton, goat's milk, wild honey, and the edible locusts of that region
3. ” True, but where is your soul? It is not isolated in that little room you call your self; it is not subsisting on feeding your ego and drunk with your individuality
4. ’ He was, as the Creed declares, 'Perfect God and Perfect Man, of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting; who although He be God and Man, yet He is not two, but one Christ; One—not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of the Manhood into God—One altogether—not by confusion of substance, but by unity of Person
5. Ferrars, were on the best terms imaginable with the Dashwoods; and setting aside the jealousies and ill-will continually subsisting between Fanny and Lucy, in which their husbands of course took a part, as well as the frequent domestic disagreements between Robert and Lucy themselves, nothing could exceed the harmony in which they all lived together
6. He had a brief but chilling vision of himself living the rest of his life out in this tree, subsisting on raw birds and such fish as he could snatch as they plummeted past
7. He was quite aware of this; indeed in some respects he was rather afraid of this ingenuous wife, whose imitative piety and native worldliness were equally sincere, who had nothing to be ashamed of, and whom he had married out of a thorough inclination still subsisting
8. What is important is having the financial resources to achieve one’s goals: Living the life you want to live, providing for your children, and ensuring that you don’t have to spend your retirement years subsisting on cat food
9. Frequent transitions from depression to that strange, awkward gaiety of hers to which I have referred before the repetition of favourite words and turns of speech of Papa’s; the continuation of discussions with others which Papa had already begun—all these things, if my father had not been the principal actor in the matter and I had been a little older, would have explained to me the relations subsisting between him and Avdotia
10. There is a difference of opinion subsisting in this country on these two points
11. Although the letter cannot have been written in consequence of any instruction from the British Government, founded on the late order for taking possession of the portion of West Florida well known to be claimed by the United States; although no communication has ever been made by that Government to this of any stipulation with Spain, contemplating an interposition which might so materially affect the United States; and although no call can have been made by Spain, in the present instance, for the fulfilment of any such subsisting engagement; yet the spirit and scope of the document, with the accredited source from which it proceeds, required that it should not be withheld from the consideration of Congress
12. During this session, the difficulties then subsisting between this country and Great Britain, became the subject of discussion, and a proposition for prohibiting all intercourse with Great Britain, in case justice was not done us, was then submitted to the House, and the previous question was called upon it, and decided in the affirmative, after which the subject was not only postponed, but, as appears by the Journal, was both amended and debated
13. Sir: I have just learned the ultimate decision of my Lord Wellesley, relative to the appointment which I was desirous to obtain; and find that the subsisting relations between the two countries forbid the creating a new office in the United States, such as I was solicitous to obtain
14. Where men have expended their substance in purchasing and collecting an article for export, under the subsisting faith of your laws permitting such export, it is not mere injustice, but cruelty in the Government towards its citizens to arrest such a commerce by an ex post facto law, and consign those concerned to the prison walls, and their families to beggary
15. But to restrain, or in any manner interfere with our commerce with neutral nations, with whom Great Britain was at peace, and against whom she had no justifiable cause of war, for the sole reason that they restrained or excluded from their ports her commerce, was utterly incompatible with the pacific relations subsisting between the two countries
16. Sweden also professes sentiments favorable to the subsisting harmony
17. That the United States should precipitate itself upon the unoffending people of that neighboring colony, unmindful of all previously subsisting amities, because the parent State, three thousand miles distant, had violated some of our commercial rights; that we should march inland, to defend our ships, and seamen; that with raw troops, hastily collected, miserably appointed, and destitute of discipline, we should invade a country defended by veteran forces, at least equal, in point of numbers, to the invading army; that bounty should be offered and proclamations issued, inviting the subjects of a foreign power to treason and rebellion, under the influences of a quarter of the country upon which a retort of the same nature was so obvious, so easy, and, in its consequences, so awful; in every aspect, the design seemed so fraught with danger and disgrace, that it appeared absolutely impossible that it should be seriously entertained
18. As a means of carrying on the subsisting war
19. Concerning the invasion of Canada, as a means of carrying on the subsisting war, it is my duty to speak plainly and decidedly, not only because I herein express my own opinions upon the subject, but, as I conscientiously believe, the sentiments also of a very great majority of that whole section of country in which I have the happiness to reside
20. They desired nothing so much as to keep perfect the then subsisting relations of amity
21. the invasion of Canada considered as a means of carrying on the subsisting war, a means of obtaining an early and honorable peace, and a means of advancing the personal and local projects of ambition of the members of the American Cabinet, 630;
22. connection subsisting between the agricultural and commercial interests, 339;
1. This species of slavery still subsists in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, and other parts of Germany
2. This species of tenants still subsists in some parts of Scotland
3. To make and maintain the high roads, a servitude which still subsists, I believe, everywhere, though with different degrees of oppression in different countries, was not the only one
4. It still subsists in France and Germany
5. The taille, as it still subsists in France
6. There subsists at present a tax of this kind in the empire of Russia
7. “O Mother! Who subsists in all the three kaalas (Time: Past,
8. It is that which alone is, which constitutes the stuff of which all things are made, which subsists by virtue of its own power, which is not supported by anything else, but supports everything that exists……”
9. concerned it moves through mouth and nose and subsists in the eyes and ears
10. This is certainly not the case if we look at the two whole faunas; with respect to the insects alone, Schiodte has remarked: "We are accordingly prevented from considering the entire phenomenon in any other light than something purely local, and the similarity which is exhibited in a few forms between the Mammoth Cave (in Kentucky) and the caves in Carniola, otherwise than as a very plain expression of that analogy which subsists generally between the fauna of Europe and of North America
11. In the case of the water-ouzel, the acutest observer, by examining its dead body, would never have suspected its sub-aquatic habits; yet this bird, which is allied to the thrush family, subsists by diving,—using its wings under water and grasping stones with its feet
12. And since in this famous fishery, each mate or headsman, like a Gothic Knight of old, is always accompanied by his boat-steerer or harpooneer, who in certain conjunctures provides him with a fresh lance, when the former one has been badly twisted, or elbowed in the assault; and moreover, as there generally subsists between the two, a close intimacy and friendliness; it is therefore but meet, that in this place we set down who the Pequod's harpooneers were, and to what headsman each of them belonged
13. This proves the connection which subsists between the two great agricultural and commercial interests of this country
