I may say that my first great lessons in true philosophy were
obtained in these lectures, where I learned to distinguish between the finite and infinite, ceasing to envy any, while I inclined to worship one.
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
By this excess of heat it
obtains a larger distention, and inflates the balloon more.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
And thus he proceeded onwards till he arrived at the end of the Rue de Noailles, from whence a full view of the Allees de Meillan was obtained. At this spot, so pregnant with fond and filial remembrances, his heart beat almost to bursting, his knees tottered under him, a mist floated over his sight, and had he not clung for support to one of the trees, he would inevitably have fallen to the ground and been crushed beneath the many vehicles continually passing there.
Having obtained the address of the person to whom the house in the Allees de Meillan belonged, Dantes next proceeded thither, and, under the name of Lord Wilmore (the name and title inscribed on his passport), purchased the small dwelling for the sum of twenty-five thousand francs, at least ten thousand more than it was worth; but had its owner asked half a million, it would unhesitatingly have been given.
Count of Monte Cristo
That those terms which fall under the heads of 'positives' and 'privatives' are not opposed each to each as contraries, either, is plain from the following facts: Of a pair of contraries such that they have no intermediate, one or the other must needs be present in the subject in which they naturally subsist, or of which they are predicated; for it is those, as we proved,' in the case of which this necessity
obtains, that have no intermediate.
Categories
Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be
obtained from other men.
Art of War
And yet, observing the strange law of contradiction which
obtains in all such cases, the time was long, while it flamed by so fast.
Tale Of Two Cities
One morning, about a fortnight after I had
obtained my liberty, Reldresal, principal secretary (as they style him) for private affairs, came to my house attended only by one servant.
Gullivers Travels
It then became, in a subsequent division of territory, a part of Montgomery; and finally, having obtained a sufficient population of its own, it was set apart as a county by itself shortly after the peace of 1783.
Be that as it may, the author was brought an infant into this valley, and all his first impressions were here obtained. He has inhabited it ever since, at intervals; and he thinks he can answer for the faithfulness of the picture he has drawn.
The physician with his theory, rather obtained from than corrected by experiments on the human constitution; the pious, self- denying, laborious, and ill-paid missionary; the half-educated, litigious, envious, and disreputable lawyer, with his counterpoise, a brother of the profession, of better origin and of better character; the shiftless, bargaining, discontented seller of his “betterments;†the plausible carpenter, and most of the others, are more familiar to all who have ever dwelt in a new country.
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According to the results declared, PML-N candidate Saad Waseem Sheikh won in NA-137 by obtaining 121,207 votes while his rivals including PTI candidate Sardar Asif Nakai and PPP candidate Ch Manzoor Ahmed could
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Foreign secretary has given permission for obtaining loan in defiance of his own orders No FMMA/VOLUME-1 wherein it is said that Pakistani embassies can not
obtain loans from national or international banks .
Loan obtained from US bank for construction of additional building of Pakistan embassy without permission from finance ministry