"Maintainer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... heavens," "the Lord of Darkness," "the first-born, the oldest, the Father of the Gods." EA, retaining his ancient attributions as "Lord of the Deep," the pre-eminently wise and beneficent spirit, represents the Divine Intelligence, the founder and maintainer of order and harmony, while the actual task of separating the elements of chaos and shaping them into the forms which make up the world as we know it, as well as that of ordering the heavenly bodies, appointing them their ...
— Chaldea - From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria • Znade A. Ragozin
... no prating optimist: it was his very knowledge how much could be said against society that quickened his fears for it. There is no shallower criticism than that which accuses Burke in his later years of apostasy from so-called Liberal opinions. Burke was all his life through a passionate maintainer of the established order of things, and a ferocious hater of abstractions and metaphysical politics. The same ideas that explode like bombs through his diatribes against the French Revolution are to be found shining with a mild effulgence in the comparative calm of his earlier writings. ...
— Obiter Dicta - Second Series • Augustine Birrell |
