#par

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#april #began #board #boat #departure

Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#conduct #council #declarations #degree #disposition

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#appear #cedar #colours #composed #covered

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit. ↗

— Mary Astell

#discern #enough #fit #form #how

I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between China and the United States. Which way is it going to go? It's hard to see. ↗

— Julian Assange

#between #china #enormous #freedom #freedom of speech

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness. ↗

— Mary Astell

#being #born #fit #happiness #happy

A doable goal for me is to finish a marathon under four hours. I'm doing all the training, but the hardest part is eating right. ↗

— Sean Astin

#eating #finish #four #goal #hardest

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#actually #arrogance #church #england #extraordinarily

I don't much enjoy Back and Forth. I mean, I think it has its own particular qualities, but I think it's inferior to any of the half-hour ones we did. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#back #did #enjoy #forth #half-hour

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children. ↗

— Joe Baca

#been #catholic #catholic schools #children #education