Those gems of virtue, which concentre still In narrow limits, stores of moral wealth Beyond all estimate-whose value known, The dealer sells his other merchandize; His ivory and curious workmanship, The silkworm's product and the cloth of gold, To purchase that imperishable store, More highly prized than all!
"Vignettes in Verse"
Matilda Betham
Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable, in order, amidst so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions, to concentre my thoughts, to ballast my conduct, to preserve me from being blown about by every wind of fashionable doctrine.
"Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America"
Edmund Burke
His object does not end with the malt distiller's, nor, like his, concentre in one focal point, the solution of the whole of the farina of the plant or grain employed, regardless of milkiness or transparency; he must carefully take the heats of his liquor, so as to solve and combine the qualities he has in view; which, if he misses in the first mash, is partly irremediable in the succeeding ones.
"The American Practical Brewer and Tanner"
Joseph Coppinger