When a family is complete, it consists of freemen and slaves; but as in every subject we should begin with examining into the
smallest parts of which it consists, and as the first and
smallest parts of a family are the master and slave, the husband and wife, the father and child, let us first inquire into these three, what each of them may be, and what they ought to be; that is to say, the herile, the nuptial, and the paternal.
They also go against my taste; but that is the
smallest matter unto me, since I am among men.
The Fox accumulated all that they had killed into one large heap and left to himself the
smallest possible morsel.
'That's not the
smallest danger in it--not the very
smallest,' said the Jew; 'it's only to dodge a woman.'
It was not badly named in one respect, being in truth a particularly little Bethel--a Bethel of the
smallest dimensions-- with a small number of small pews, and a small pulpit, in which a small gentleman (by trade a Shoemaker, and by calling a Divine) was delivering in a by no means small voice, a by no means small sermon, judging of its dimensions by the condition of his audience, which, if their gross amount were but small, comprised a still smaller number of hearers, as the majority were slumbering.
call none of the race a friend of mine, trapper, if you have the
smallest regard for my affection!
Neither you nor I can assert the
smallest right to control her.
"No," said the Jackass, "you are the
smallest donkey."
Hitherto the
smallest details of the operation had been daily chronicled by the journals, which the public devoured with eager eyes.
When the morning came, the
smallest of the boats was missing--and the three Hindoos were next reported to be missing, too.
"I have not the
smallest objection to explaining them," said he, as soon as she allowed him to speak.
The suffering, whether of martyr or victim, which belongs to every historical advance of mankind, is represented in this way in every town, and by hundreds of obscure hearths; and we need not shrink from this comparison of small things with great; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which shall bind the
smallest things with the greatest?