"Distributive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mr. Benjamin Nathan. | | | | The widow having determined to increase the rewards | | heretofore offered by me (in my proclamation of July 29), | | and no result having yet been obtained, and suggestions | | having been made that the rewards were not sufficiently | | distributive or specific, the offers in the previous | | proclamation are hereby superseded by the following: | | | | A REWARD of $30,000 will be paid for the arrest and | | conviction of the murderer of BENJAMIN NATHAN, who was | | killed ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 23, September 3, 1870 • Various
... Breton,' said the parson, assuming a more serious tone, 'you know you're a reasonable creature, so I don't mind discussing this question with you. You've got an ethical foundation to your nature, and you want to see things done on decent grounds of distributive justice. There I am one with you. But you've also got an aesthetic side to your nature, which makes you worth arguing with upon the matter. I won't argue with your vulgar materialised socialist, who would break up the frieze of the Parthenon for road metal, or pull down Giotto's ...
— Philistia • Grant Allen
... ultimately never be an all-form at all, that the substance of reality may never get totally collected, that some of it may remain outside of the largest combination of it ever made, and that a distributive form of reality, the each-form, is logically as acceptable and empirically as probable as the all-form commonly acquiesced in as so obviously the self-evident thing. The contrast between these two ...
— A Pluralistic Universe - Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the - Present Situation in Philosophy • William James
... us. No other vein of sentiment in human nature, perhaps, has so much need to be cherished. In the lives of women, friendship is, First, the guide to love; a preliminary stage in the natural development of affection. Secondly, it is the ally of love; the distributive tendrils and branches to the root and trunk of affection. Thirdly, it is, in some cases, the purified fulfilment and repose into which love subsides, or rises. Fourthly, it is, in other cases, the comforting substitute for love. A just display of these ...
— The Friendships of Women • William Rounseville Alger
... Claims Commission. That convention still awaits the consent of the Senate. Meanwhile, because of those charges of fraudulent awards which have made a new commission necessary, the Executive has directed the suspension of payments of the distributive ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
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