When his miserable life is over they lay him out—that is, they pull his legs, and try to uncrisp his fingers,

She introduced my low-income blue-collar husband into a world the working poor can only read about – the world of the ultra rich.

Attempting to force a theory of abstraction into Augustine's theory of knowledge, these interpreters tend to scholasticize Augustine at the expense of his Platonism.

Thank goodness, I am not a child, said Lady Mandeville, turning over a collection of those juvenile tomes, which are to make the rising generation so much wiser than their grandfathers or grandmothers—catechisms of conchology, geology, mathematical questions for infants, geography, astronomy; the child may be 'father to the man;' but the said father must have had some trouble with his offspring.