We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
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A Pack of Spanish Lies sent abroad in the world, first printed in the Spanish tongue, and translated out of the original. Now ripped up, unfolded and by just examination condemned, as containing false, corrupt and detestable wares worthy to be damned and burned.
cecil, william, 1st baron burghleyThe reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit.
pierre teilhard de chardinOn the platform stood a policeman of normal proportions, and instead of a revolver and a truncheon he carried a copy of Ben Hur translated into Irish, which he was evidently studying for an examination important to his professional advancement. MrThewless realised that the imperial might of Great Britain lay behind him and that in front was the philosophic republic of Mr de Valera.
John Innes Mackintosh StewartThe vice of meanness, condemned in every other country, is in Scotland translated into a virtue called 'thrift'.
David ThomsonIt is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.
augustine birrellThe greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.
ventseslav konstantinovI'd like that translated, if I may.
harold macmillan"'Babies of course are not human — they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes, and even snakes; the same in kind as these, but much more complicated and vivid, since babies are, after all, one of the most developed species of the lower vertebrates. In short, babies have minds which work in terms and categories of their own which cannot be translated into the terms and categories of the human mind.'"
lewis padgettBernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.
william poundstoneThe highest truth is daiji, translated as dai jiki in Chinese scriptures. This is the subject of the question the emperor asked Bodhidharma: "What is the First Principle?" Bodhidharma said, "I don't know." "I don't know" is the First Principle.
shunryu suzukiChristianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man."
joseph goebbelsThe mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.
camille pagliaThe sciences of only one nation, the Greeks , have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language .
lines 510 - 524; as translated by R. Potter (1860)
Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land. (translated by David Kovacs: Perseus Digital Library)
Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees. (translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White)
(translated from Japanese) You'll have to beg much better than that.
(translated from Japanese) That really was a Hattori Hanzo sword...
The world cannot be translated; it can only be dreamed of and touched.
The Koran cannot be translated :;the "map" changes on translation no matter how carefully one tries.
Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated.
L'arbre de la liberté ne croit qu'arrosé par le sang des tyrans. [translated]: The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
bertrand barère de vieuzacDelle belle eruditissima, delle erudite bellissima . translated: "Most learned of the fair; fairest of the learned".