...“Post hoc non propter hoc” is an excellent maxim,but one that never seems to enter the missionary head down here...
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...I have adopted a maxim laid down by Napoleon, never to occupy ground which the enemy would like me to occupy...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...Just why a Gatling gun or a Maxim should not be employed for the same purpose, the writer fails to state...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
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It was owing to a peculiar view taken of this maxim, that soenormous sums were asked and given, for the hire of rams, at the timeMr Bakewell brought the new Leicester to perfection...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...A mildewed maxim runs: "You can't teach an old dog new tricks...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...As for reprobates like the so-called "poison ivy" and "poison dogwood,"they have perhaps borrowed a familiar human maxim,—"All is fair inwar...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
... Franklin left us a maxim which is much to the point here...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...'A man is never too oldto marry' is their maxim...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...We can nowunderstand why it was a maxim with the Pythagoreans that in risingfrom bed you should smooth away the impression left by your body onthe bed-clothes...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...This may have been thereason of an ancient Greek maxim, attributed to Pythagoras, whichforbade people to wear rings...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
... "A place for every thing, and every thingin its place," should be an absolute maxim with all artists...
Henry H. Snelling 「The History and Practice of the Art of Photography」
...His favorite maxim was to spare the lives ofhis soldiers; and scarcely any general ever gained so manyimportant advantages with so little bloodshed...
Marcius Willson 「Mosaics of Grecian History」
...It was a maxim with him that the merit of a painter does notconsist in giving to the world a number of works of mediocrity, but afew perfect ones; and hence his pictures are rare...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)」
..."Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner," as the Frenchethical maxim has it, may be modified into the true motto of æstheticcriticism, "Tout comprendre, c'est tout justifier...
W. C. Brownell 「French Art」
...I tell you my maxim...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
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