"Copy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... before it did. Yet, after all, perhaps this estimate is unjust. Society, like an individual organism, must creep before it can walk, and perhaps the Babylonian experiments in astrology and magic, which European civilization was destined to copy for some three or four thousand years, must have been made a part of the necessary evolution of our race in one place or in another. That thought, however, need not blind us to the essential fact, which the historian of science must needs admit, that for the Babylonian, ...
— A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
... I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the "American Muck Book," recently published by you, and edited ...
— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby
... you leave to read here, in this place, the copy of my mother's answer to your uncle's letter. Not one comment will I make upon it. I know my duty better. And here, therefore, taking the liberty to hope, that I may, in your present less disagreeable, though not wholly agreeable situation, provoke ...
— Clarissa, Volume 4 (of 9) - History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson
... mean slang words like those. The girls had no business to be using them. You must copy the best, and not ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil
... good day! Not at all, my dear friend; I have not forgotten you. It is this little girl, to whom I gave the notes yesterday to copy, and who has not touched ...
— Doctor Pascal • Emile Zola
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