"Conserves" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had not this natural inertia whereof we have just spoken to give it a kind of repugnance to being moved. Let us now compare the force which the current exercises on boats, and communicates to them, with the action of God, who produces and conserves whatever is positive in creatures, and gives them perfection, being and force: let us compare, I say, the inertia of matter with the natural imperfection of creatures, and the slowness of the laden boat with the defects ...
— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz
... qui rassemble les eaux des hauteurs voisines. Le nombre de ces lacs augmente a mesure qu'on s'eleve, et c'est une observation generale, que ceux des vallees sont pour la plupart combles ou perdus, et que ceux des montagnes, surtout de celle de granit, sont presque tous conserves. J'ai dit precedemment, d'apres l'observation de M. d'Arcet, que l'enceinte des cascades presentoit la forme d'un reservoir entr'ouvert et epuise, et qu'elle etoit precedee d'un autre bassin dont l'aspect est moins sauvage et la forme plus ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) • James Hutton
... another. But these things are plainly against common sense which the Stoics say and feign,—that there are in one substance two individual qualities, and that the same substance, which has particularly one quality, when another quality is added, receives and equally conserves them both. For if there may be two, there may be also three, four, and five, and even more than you can name, in one and the same substance; I say not in its different parts, but all equally in the whole, though even infinite in number. For Chrysippus says, that Jupiter and the world are like ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... the hot bath. The hot water has caused all the pores on the surface of the body to open, and the bodily heat is rapidly lost through this cause. The cold water, quickly applied, causes the pores to close, leaves the skin in a tonic condition, and conserves the bodily heat. One should never take a hot bath without following it with a quick cold application to the surface. It should continue, ...
— What a Young Woman Ought to Know • Mary Wood-Allen
... "Conserves of Roses, Clove-Gilliflowers, Wormwood, Green-Ginger, Burnt-Wine, English Spirits, Prunes to stew, Raisons of the Sun, Currence [currants], Sugar, Nutmeg, Mace, Cinnamon, Pepper and Ginger, White ...
— The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete • Azel Ames
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