fountain-head

Quadragesimo Anno ...if we are to avoid the errors which are the source and fountain-head of all the miseries of our time, the teaching of Aquinas must be adhered to more religiously than ever. ...against the much vaunted liberty of the human reason and its independence in regard to God he asserts the rights of primary Truth and the authority over us of the Supreme Master.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

Paris was the fountain-head of poetry; there the poet was brought into the light and paid for his work.

Two Poets 2007

At last, thanks to chance, to which she had so often appealed, Emilie could now see something very unlike a chimera at the fountain-head of the imaginary wealth with which she gilded her married life.

The Ball at Sceaux 2007

This is the great fountain-head and focus of the Carnival.

Pictures from Italy 2007

At last, thanks to chance, to which she had so often appealed, Emilie could now see something very unlike a chimera at the fountain-head of the imaginary wealth with which she gilded her married life.

The Ball at Sceaux 2007

Still I think we all know very well that they are to the fountain-head what a good service of water pipes is to a good water supply.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

Paris was the fountain-head of poetry; there the poet was brought into the light and paid for his work.

Two Poets 2007

If the fountain-head be polluted, how shall the under-currents run clear?

Pamela 2006

Odd enough, with all our pride of learning, that we choose to derive the little we know from the under currents, perhaps muddy ones too, when the clear, the pellucid fountain-head, is much nearer at hand, and easier to be come at — slighted the more, possibly, for that very reason!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

These sentences contain the culture of nations; these are the corner-stone of schools; these are the fountain-head of literatures.

Representative Men 2006