"Five-fold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it is much the same. She has 600,000 men under arms, and is drilling others, while Russia has just ordered an addition to her hosts exceeding five-fold the entire American army. England's war expenditure this year exceeds that of only five years ago by $30,000,000, which is more than America spends for her army altogether. And so the whole of Europe is armed and ...
— Round the World • Andrew Carnegie
... the five-fold beauty in the Queen's Gallery," said he, "hers who was mistress here and wrongly ousted—the most peerless lady of Sussex, ...
— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon
... being bad, Christ will desert me.-Answ. Sin is deadly destruction to faith.-A five-fold order observed in ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... child! It was quite affecting—and both father and mother, softened in spite of themselves at the loss of that Maria, often would talk over the new-found virtues of their most exemplary son. His character came out now with five-fold lustre when contrasted with his former usual ruggedness: no widow ever had a one sick child more tender, more considerate, more dutiful, than rude ...
— The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... Recollection. Next, the disciplining and simplifying of the affections and will, the orientation of the heart; which is sometimes called by the formidable name of Purgation. So the practical mysticism of the plain man will best be grasped by him as a five-fold scheme of training and growth: in which the first two stages prepare the self for union with Reality, and the last three unite it successively with the World of Becoming, the World of Being, and finally with that Ultimate ...
— Practical Mysticism - A Little Book for Normal People • Evelyn Underhill |
