All of history accustoms us to this way of thinking. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For starters: "temporarily" handing over his power to deputies accustoms his subjects to government by Fidel's handpicked successors -- as if the successors were Fidel Castro himself. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Paris very speedily accustoms herself to anything, — it is only a riot, — and Paris has so many affairs on hand, that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Though afterwards the mind takes the quite contrary course, and having drawn its knowledge into as general propositions as it can, makes those familiar to its thoughts, and accustoms itself to have recourse to them, as to the standards of truth and falsehood. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He has only the experience which accustoms him to judge of the distance between himself and the place whence the noise proceeds. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This _esprit du pays_, although it is sometimes carried to a ridiculous extent, is greatly to be preferred to the abusive manner in which an Englishman accustoms himself to speak of the glorious country to which he appears to feel it a disgrace to belong. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He takes a part in every occurrence in the place; he practises the art of government in the small sphere within his reach; he accustoms himself to those forms which can alone ensure the steady progress of liberty; he imbibes their spirit; he acquires a taste for order, comprehends the union of the balance of powers, and collects clear practical notions on the nature of his duties and the extent of his rights. ❋ Erik Stolterman (2007)
Intellectual purification, or dialectic, trains the soul in abstract thought; it weans the soul from dependence on the world of sense and accustoms it to the more austere, but also more real because eternal, world of the Forms or Ideas. ❋ Sam Norton (2006)
But still, just the way it is, it can do what the rest are not yet able to do: unremembered not even dreamt of it accustoms me to death. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Law school accustoms future lawyers to discerning theoretical constructs, either in past decisions or in legal principles, and applying them to the case at hand. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It accustoms the eyes of the other sex, and in time reconciles them to frightfull objects; it disables them from perceiving any distinction of features between woman and woman; and, by reducing all faces to a level, gives every female an equal chance for an admirer; being in this particular analogous to the practice of the antient Lacedemonians, who were obliged to chuse their helpmates in the dark. ❋ Unknown (2004)
But if a man accustoms himself to write ungrammatically, of necessity his art will be corrupted and destroyed. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It would be necessary to rediscover all these methods, and if this is difficult, it ought not at least to be (totally) put aside by those who teach the soldier to obey; which each one can vary and arrange in his own way, so long as with practice he accustoms the ears of his soldiers to recognize them. ❋ Unknown (2003)
My father plants doubts and suspicions in me, the coarseness of life aboard this ship accustoms me to casual cruelty amongst my fellows and even you, even the hours I spend with you are shaping me, carrying me away from my priesthood. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1998)
Regular meditation accustoms body and breath to taking orders from mind and therefore reverses the constant drain on spirit caused by undisciplined loss of essence and energy. ❋ Daniel Reid (1989)
Benefits: This exercise quickly accustoms the novice to the techniques and sensations of breath retention and the Three Locks. ❋ Daniel Reid (1989)
Even so, the days of literary censorship seem to me to be substantially over, and the burden on publishers and booksellers to maintain a certain minimum decorum, at least until the public accustoms itself to this new freedom, seems hardly too much to ask. ❋ Unknown (1969)
