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When Maximin temperately urged the contrary practice of nations, he was still more confounded to find that the resolutions of the

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Socrates says that a man should have so much property as will enable him to live temperately, which is only a way of saying

Politics Aristotle 2002

But this very genuine appreciation didn't prevent his finding her at close quarters what Anna-Rose, greatly chastened, now only called temperately "a little much," and the result was a really frantic hurrying on of the work.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

It must be self-evident to every intelligent Christian that if it is wrong to deliberately appropriate falses and evils "temperately" or moderately to the building up of our spiritual organizations, it is equally wrong to appropriate temperately those natural substances which correspond to falses and evils in a vain attempt to build up healthy natural bodies.

Personal Experience of a Physician John Ellis 1855

And so Mr. Bacon went on drinking "temperately" until habit, from claiming a moderate indulgence, began to make, so it seemed to his friends, rather unreasonable demands.

The Lights and Shadows of Real Life 1847

As a young man, Mr. Bacon drank "temperately," and he drank "temperately" in the prime of life; and now, at sixty, he continued to drink

The Lights and Shadows of Real Life 1847

He observed to me that he never in his life used tobacco to excess, but always "temperately"; although he admitted, the employing it in three forms might have been equivalent to a rather free use of it in one mode.

An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health 1823

They just drank temperately, and I drank temperately with them as an act of comradeship and accepted hospitality.

Chapter 27 2010

Upsets may occur, even painful misunderstandings and separations, yet the essential love remains, and might again flourish, more temperately.

A Conversation With Joyce Carol Oates 2010

We are writing this article, gorging on abalones and mussels, digging clams, and catching record-breaking sea-trout and rock-cod in the intervals in which we are not sailing, motor-boating, and swimming in the most temperately equable climate we have ever experienced.

FOUR HORSES AND A SAILOR 2010