"Re-creation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Jefferson, Madison, and Randolph, all of whom had been ardent for the Constitution. The party as a whole, indeed, not only acquiesced in the re-creation of the general Government, but was devotedly friendly to the new order. But while Republicans admitted that a measure of governmental centralization was indispensable, they prized the individual State as still the main pillar of our political fabric, ...
— History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews
... find this is always just what people do after unhallowed recreation: they never rise up to do good work. Test your amusements by that. Recreation should be a re-creation to every ...
— Tired Church Members • Anne Warner
... and multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth on the face of the earth." And again, upon the re-creation after the flood, he repeated the command, in almost the same words, to Noah and his sons. This command shows that God had a purpose with regard to the physical world, in placing man upon it, and that ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various
... beyond this night, these oppressed her. Then, close upon the haunting reality of his voice, his touch, came inability to believe what had happened. Had a transient dreamful slumber crept upon her as she sat here alone? So quickly had the world suffered re-creation, so magical the whelming of old days in a new order, so complete the change in herself. One word she knew which had power from eternity to do these things, and that word neither he nor she had ...
— A Life's Morning • George Gissing
... translations we find that they represent a fair measure of freedom, as so checking the verses of FitzGerald's "Omar Khayyam" we find in them the utmost measure of freedom, a freedom indeed that, in certain verses, is virtually a re-creation. ...
— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt
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