Quadragesimo Anno ...if we are to avoid the errors which are the source and fountain-head of all the miseries of our time, the teaching of Aquinas must be adhered to more religiously than ever. ...against the much vaunted liberty of the human reason and its independence in regard to God he asserts the rights of primary Truth and the authority over us of the Supreme Master. ❋ Unknown (2009)
At last, thanks to chance, to which she had so often appealed, Emilie could now see something very unlike a chimera at the fountain-head of the imaginary wealth with which she gilded her married life. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Paris was the fountain-head of poetry; there the poet was brought into the light and paid for his work. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This is the great fountain-head and focus of the Carnival. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Still I think we all know very well that they are to the fountain-head what a good service of water pipes is to a good water supply. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If the fountain-head be polluted, how shall the under-currents run clear? ❋ Unknown (2006)
Odd enough, with all our pride of learning, that we choose to derive the little we know from the under currents, perhaps muddy ones too, when the clear, the pellucid fountain-head, is much nearer at hand, and easier to be come at — slighted the more, possibly, for that very reason! ❋ Unknown (2006)
These sentences contain the culture of nations; these are the corner-stone of schools; these are the fountain-head of literatures. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Repeatedly he returns to this fountain-head for sustaining his arguments, building firmly on his faith in the infallibility of the seer-vision of the Avatar of the Supramental. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)
It is almost fair and just to aver…that nine-tenths of all the kindness and forbearance and Christian charity and generosity in the hearts of the American people to-day, got there by being filtered down from their fountain-head, the gospel of Christ, through dramas and tragedies and comedies on the stage, and through the despised novel and the Christmas story…and NOT from the drowsy pulpit! ❋ Ron Powers (2005)
On the contrary, it is the fountain-head and origin of many evils. ❋ Unknown (2005)
From this source, as from a fountain-head, burst forth all those later tenets of unbridled license which, in the midst of the terrible upheavals of the last century, were wildly conceived and boldly proclaimed as the principles and foundation of that new conception of law which was not merely previously unknown, but was at variance on many points with not only the Christian, but even the natural law ❋ Unknown (2005)
The waters are at the distance of a mile and a half from the town: there are no baths nor shelter, nor any sort of convenience for those that drink them; and the best part of their efficacy is lost, unless they are drank at the fountain-head. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Surprized, and much disgusted at this filthy phaenomenon, I asked by what means, and by whose permission, those dirty hags had got down into the basin, in order to contaminate the water at its fountain-head; and understood they belonged to the commandant of the place, who had keys of the subterranean passage. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I have accordingly taken private lodgings, and drank them at the fountain-head, not without finding considerable benefit. ❋ Unknown (2004)
If some young patriot, in good health and spirits, would take the trouble as often as he is imposed upon by the road in travelling, to have recourse to the fountain-head, and prefer a regular complaint to the comptroller of the posts, either in France or Italy, he would have ample satisfaction, and do great service to the community. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head. ❋ Unknown (2004)
