For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it. Votes: 0, True sensibility, the sensibility which is the auxiliary of virtue, and the soul of genius, is in society so occupied with the feelings of others, as scarcely to regard its own sensations. There is a voice. How they should arm themselves against him, can be seen Eph. There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. Votes: 3, Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, "I may say without vanity," but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed. There we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery. Votes: 3, Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. Votes: 0, Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. And, of course, I believed it. Some nations saw true revolutions that used the Internet as the primary catalyst, such as the Arab Spring. My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. Votes: 0, There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, & common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit. The world does nothing but sketch. Sharing, collaborative economy concepts are being implemented, and it points towards a new direction. Votes: 0, True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful ⦠You are enjoying the gift of genius. In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which people are conditioned in childhood; often they possess a relatively timeless attitude toward events. It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work. . We know we've scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to pass in the years that lie ahead. "There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. Votes: 0, God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us. Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything. If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, I feel fine. The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. Votes: 2, Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life. But I was right. With scarcely any intervening period, Parliaments have met constantly for 600 years, and there was something of a Parliament before the Conquest. Votes: 0, Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply. Votes: 0, Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what. Votes: 0, ... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes. I feel nothing at all. Votes: 0, I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her. Votes: 0, I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. Votes: 0, When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior. All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. "Isn't it absurd that we, 7 billion of us living in the same planet, have grown further apart from each other?". Votes: 0, It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work. Contentment preserves one from catching cold. A few months ago, I freed myself from standard-procedure society. There is no way you are going to make me eat that! As far as I am aware, the efforts scarcely exist: very few even pay attention to the question. Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. Isn't it absurd that we, 7 billion of us living in the same planet, have grown further apart from each other? 1. Synonyms for 'scarcely': almost, nearly, hardly, barely, near, practically, well-nigh, close, all but, a near thing, as good as finished/dead etc Synonyms: impossible, unbelievable, no-go, there is no question of something, be out of the question, impossibility, possibly, something will not work / start / open etc, with the best will in the world We may be proud that England is the ancient country of Parliaments. On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room. Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself. He can scarcely breathe. Votes: 0, ...in order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have. As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all. Academic training in beauty is a sham. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace. He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor. It is the noblest effort of individualism. Votes: 0, Never was a continent naturally so clean, and made so dirty, as Australia. Votes: 0, It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Votes: 0, Love each other dearly always. It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour. How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! Votes: 0, Moral activity? Food production is one of the basic fundamentals of our society. I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. And more people are swapping clothes, buying used goods, sharing assets, cars, apartments, offices. Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. Would scarcely know that we were gone. I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. How many friends do you have who practice yoga? As for us, we were scarcely four hundred strong, and we well remembered the word and warning...we had received to beware of entering the city of Mexico, since they would kill us as soon as they had us inside. So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. There is scarcely such a thing possible! When at PortDesire, in Patagonia (latitude 48 degrees), Mr. Votes: 0, The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. I can scarcely expect bread. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment. Votes: 3, Hark! Votes: 0, Love...is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself Going against the crowd, many people have understood that this is way off. Votes: 0, Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves. 2. ("Out Of The Deep"). Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as "cruelty. Votes: 0, In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.