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«What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
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covered, devise, embellish, embellished, embellishes, embellishing, execute, extensive, farms, forests, improvements, prosperous, ranged, republic, savages, stud, studded, studs, towns
«Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: / Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.»
«Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.»
«Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.»
«Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.»
«Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
devise, embroiderer, engraver, In Blue, purple, purple heart, scarlet, weaver, weavers, with wisdom
«Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, / And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; / For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man / Is blackened. Man's Forgiveness give - and take!»
«The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Brain may, decree, devise, hot-tempered, in cold blood, leaps
«The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps over a cold decree.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Brain may, decree, devise, hot-tempered, in cold blood, leaps
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