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"Well-conducted" Quotes from Famous Books

... they placed no restraint upon the mind and no check upon his education. It has even been said that the slave class of antiquity really corresponded to our free laboring class. It is also well known that a well-conducted slave, by his own earnings, was able to purchase his freedom in the course ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... energy. Instead of burying my nose in the pillows, as most babies do, I must needs struggle into a sitting posture, and make night vocal with crows and calls. I must needs chew the head of my indiarubber doll, or perform a solo on my rattle— anything, in fact, but go to sleep like a respectable, well-conducted child. ...

— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed

... business it is to remind men of the truths of religion. A religious man does not intend to remind his neighbours; he goes on his own way; but they see him and cannot help being reminded. They see that he is well-conducted, and sober-minded, and reverent, and conscientious; that he never runs into any excess, that he never uses bad language; that he is regular at his prayers, regular at Church, regular at the most Holy Sacrament; ...

— Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) • John Henry Newman

... County Magazine, 1791. By a Society of Gentlemen.' This well-conducted old magazine was printed and published at Salisbury, and was decidedly a credit to the town ...

— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume II (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz

... one-fourth of the crew into watches, which in light winds and well-conducted ships is enough; but the officers are in three, and they must not be ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

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