1 Wherefore, like Brutus, men must feign folly; and to play the part effectively, and so as to please their prince, must say, do, see, and praise things contrary to their inclinations.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II. 2 If we're all the raw stuff of the cosmic effects, one would rather be the fire that tempers a sword than the fish that dyes a purple cloak.
3 Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear.
4 The ladies stood in unrelated attitudes calculated to isolate their effects, and the men hung about them as irrelevantly as stage heroes whose tailors are named in the programme.
5 At first, as Selden had noticed, it had been almost too preoccupying to its wearer; but now she was in full command of it, and was even producing her effects with unwonted freedom.
6 She lay very still, waiting with a sensuous pleasure for the first effects of the soporific.
7 As to how she was to produce these effects she had no notion.
8 However, I had never been in the South Seas; and perhaps the sun there produced these extraordinary effects upon the skin.
9 Next followed David, who was gradually coming to a true sense of his condition, as the effects of the wound became less and less apparent.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 10 10 The scheme was well conceived, but failed in its effects.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 11 A truant provincial was paying the forfeit of his disobedience, by being plundered of those very effects which had caused him to desert his place in the ranks.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 12 The effects produced by the appalling sights that constantly arose in their path to the lake shore, were as different as the characters of the respective individuals who composed the party.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 13 There was no deep insight into causes and effects necessary to foresee that such a situation of things was likely to prove highly prejudicial to their future movements.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 14 The effects of this attack were instantaneous, and to the scout and his friends greatly relieving.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 15 She was by trade a weaver; and by constant application to her business, she had been in a good degree preserved from the blighting and dehumanizing effects of slavery.