"Advantageous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him, saying, "Monsieur, I trust that whatever is advantageous for France must be ...
— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas
... all generations that have not seen Him, are not in a less advantageous position in regard either to credence or to trust, than were those that companied with Him on earth, and the blessing Which He breathed out in that upper room comes floating down the ages like a perfume diffused through ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI • Alexander Maclaren
... vices tender death for the first time to the men who are gathering in and about towns. The city demands more persistent, more intellectualized and less intense physical desires than the countryside. Moral qualities that were a disadvantage in the dispersed stage become advantageous in the city, and conversely. Rugged independence ceases to be helpful, and an intelligent turn for give and take, for collaboration and bargaining, makes increasingly for survival. Moreover, there grows very ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells
... it were, happy and grateful to Heaven and to her parents, as you will see."—"Heaven grant it may be so!" replied the wife. "She has, indeed, now considerable property; but after the noise occasioned by her unlucky affair with that adventurer, do you imagine that she is likely soon to meet with so advantageous a match as Mr. Rascal? Do you know the extent of Mr. Rascal's influence and wealth? Why, he has purchased with ready money, in this country, six millions of landed property, free from all encumbrances. I have had all ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: German (V.2) • Various
... essential in order to obtain immediate dilution of the germicide carried over; at the same time it is advantageous to employ a selective medium which favours the growth of the test germ to the exclusion of organisms likely to contaminate the preparation, and if possible one which affords ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
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