Justly, however, she took him for a splendid nature, and assuming upon good authority that the greater contains the lesser, she supposed the lesser to be a chiselled figure serviceably alive in the embrace.
"The Tragic Comedians, Complete"
George Meredith Last Updated: March 7, 2009
Among other things, how my Lord Sandwich, both in his counsells and personal service, hath done most honourably and serviceably.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
The analogy of the body politic to the body natural was as present to him as it had been to all other writers on society, but he failed to seize the only useful lessons which such an analogy might have taught him-diversity of structure, difference of function, development of strength by exercise, growth by nutrition-all of which might have been serviceably translated into the dialect of political science, and might have bestowed on his conception of political society more of the features of reality.
"Rousseau Volumes I. and II."
John Morley