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... said, in his letter of thanks to General Oudinot: 'The victory of the French arms is won over the enemies of human society.' Yes! gentlemen, such will be the judgment of impartial history; and it will be one of the brightest glories of France and the nineteenth century. You will not attenuate, tarnish, eclipse this glory by plunging into a mass of contradictions, complications, and inextricable inconsistency. Know you what would dim for ever the lustre of the French flag? It would be to set it in opposition ...

— Pius IX. And His Time • The Rev. AEneas MacDonell

... which otherwise he might never have touched so closely. He learned to know all their strange and naive humours, their ignorance and muddlement. From them he realised those strong and elemental passions which finer folk attenuate or disguise. He acquired a stock of sinewy and home-coming Saxon phrase, which often stood him in good stead, and which forms no small factor in his vast eloquence. He is manifestly a man who forgot nothing. In after days he mingled with wits and ...

— Platform Monologues • T. G. Tucker

... read the last Essay in this volume will not accuse me of wishing to attenuate the evil of the existence of this group, whether great ...

— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley