Solomon hath pronounced, that in counsel is
stability. Things will have their first, or second agitation: if they be not tossed upon the arguments of counsel, they will be tossed upon the waves of fortune; and be full of inconstancy, doing and undoing, like the reeling of a drunken man.
"Well said," replied Barbicane; "but if nothing had any weight, nothing would keep in its place, not even your hat on your head, worthy Michel; nor your house, whose stones only adhere by weight; nor a boat, whose stability on the waves is only caused by weight; not even the ocean, whose waves would no longer be equalized by terrestrial attraction; and lastly, not even the atmosphere, whose atoms, being no longer held in their places, would disperse in space!"
They were like drunken men having no stability in themselves.
Unwilling as she was to admit an idea so destructive of Jane's happiness, and so dishonorable to the
stability of her lover, she could not prevent its frequently occurring.
"I always feared for the
stability of the company," she was saying; "but it seems incredible that they should have failed for so enormous a sum--unless there has been some dishonest manipulation."
Harriet, here comes a very sudden trial of our
stability in good thoughts.
Among the difficulties encountered by the convention, a very important one must have lain in combining the requisite
stability and energy in government, with the inviolable attention due to liberty and to the republican form.
As a ruler, the East Wind has a remarkable
stability; as an invader of the high latitudes lying under the tumultuous sway of his great brother, the Wind of the West, he is extremely difficult to dislodge, by the reason of his cold craftiness and profound duplicity.
And to conclude, when we shall have briefly gone through everything that is necessary, we will endeavour to point out the sources of corruption, and
stability, in government, as well those which are common to all as those which are peculiar to each state, and from what causes they chiefly arise.
So, then, the
stability of the solar system would not be deranged in ages to come.
The connection among the Swiss cantons scarcely amounts to a confederacy; though it is sometimes cited as an instance of the
stability of such institutions.
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