"Cabinet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... not, if possible, the soul of him to be saved from the claws of Satan! "Claws of Satan;" "brand from the burning;" "for Christ our Saviour's sake;" "in the name of the most merciful God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Amen:"—so Friedrich Wilhelm phrases it, in those confused old documents and Cabinet Letters of his; [Forster, i. 374, 379, &c.] which awaken a strange feeling in the attentive reader; and show us the ruggedest of human creatures melted into blubbering tenderness, and growling huskily something which we ...
— History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 7 • Thomas Carlyle
... are wrapped up in a cloth and called Artjeh.[456] In some temples (e.g. the Bale Agoeng at Singaraja) there are erections called Meru, supposed to represent the sacred mountain where the gods reside. They consist of a stout pedestal or basis of brick on which is erected a cabinet shrine as already described. Above this are large round discs made of straw and wood, which may be described as curved roofs or umbrellas. They are from three to five in number and rise one above the other, with slight intervals between them. (e) In many temples (for instance ...
— Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Charles Eliot
... of the ebony family, from which fine cabinet-wood is obtained. Its fruit is the mabolo, ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... think this situation between your official Minister and the real Premier quite pleasant, because it seems to me that the despatches of the one, however explicit, being all written without the concurrence of the Cabinet, do not pledge the opinions of the other, which are, after all, the only opinions which ...
— Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third - From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1 (of 2) • The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos
... spirit of a man. Without this there is no room else fit for it, and suitable to it, in this lower world. "My son, give me thine heart," saith Wisdom, Prov. xxiii. 26. It cares for nothing besides, if it get not the heart, the inmost cabinet of the imperial city of this isle of man, for "out of it are the issues of life, that flow into all the members." Do not think that grace will lodge one night in your outward man, that you can put on Christianity upon your countenance or conversation without. ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning
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