"Whole works" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... simple hearts and to inspire them with pleasure or pity or warning and terror. Not one of his tales but is as easy as Goody Two Shoes; it is the moral of Tommy was a naughty boy and the master flogged him, and Jacky was a good boy and had plum cake, which pervades the whole works of the homely and famous English moralist. And if the moral is written in rather too large letters after the fable, we must remember how simple the scholars and schoolmaster both were, and like neither ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... The whole works are roofed over. The lower floor is open on two sides, but the upper one is closed in, with weather boarding at Burmantofts and with corrugated iron at Armley Road. At the former place the works were in some measure experimental, and the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various
... erected a mound, 170 feet long and 14 feet in height, which overlooks the whole works, and has been styled "the Observatory". To the east is a true circle 2,880 feet in circumference, the wall being 6 feet in height. To the north of this is an avenue leading from the circle to an octagon of fifty acres, in ...
— Mound-Builders • William J. Smyth
... to suggest that Mr. Congreve had not read Comte's works; and that the phrase "the context shows that the view of the writer ranges—however superficially—over the whole works. This is obvious from the mention of Catholicism," demonstrates that Mr. Congreve has no acquaintance with the "Philosophie Positive"? I think the suggestion would be very unjust and unmannerly, and I shall not make it. But the fact remains, that this little ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley
... Strahan. "You might think he owned the whole works. My rent comes due every month, just ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett
... general confusion: one hundred and twenty thousand manuscripts are said to have disappeared; [72] ten volumes might be purchased for a single ducat; and the same ignominious price, too high perhaps for a shelf of theology, included the whole works of Aristotle and Homer, the noblest productions of the science and literature of ancient Greece. We may reflect with pleasure that an inestimable portion of our classic treasures was safely deposited in Italy; and that the mechanics of a German town had invented an art which derides ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon |
