I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
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What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for the ages has signified cunning, intima...
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But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition.
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'About 40 per cent of all procedures used some form of anaesthesia to alleviate the severity of the interventions. For many of the remaining procedures the use of anaesthesia would have increased the animal welfare cost of the procedure.'
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Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.
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The Prophet said, 'A man saw a dog eating mud from (the severity of) thirst. So, that man took a shoe (and filled it) with water and kept on pouring the water for the dog till it quenched its thirst. So Allah approved of his deed and made him to enter Paradise.
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Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.
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James 3:1:
Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers and sisters, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
(NIV)
NOT MANY [of you] should become teachers (self-constituted censors and reprovers of others), my brethren, for you know that we [teachers] will be judged by a higher standard and with greater severity [than other people; thus we assume the greater accountability and the more condemnation].
(AMP)
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
(KJV)
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
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