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  • The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue. -- William Falconer
  • Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is. -- Ogden Nash
  • Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur. -- Oliver Lodge
  • A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature. -- Jakob Bohme
  • An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain. -- William Petty
  • Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them. -- George Savile
  • For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. -- Thomas Sydenham
  • All men who give up themselves in obedience unto God, they are received in Christ's obedience, viz. in the fulfilling of the obedience, the Jew and the Christian, and so likewise the heathen who has neither the law nor Gospel. -- Jakob Bohme
  • The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. -- Lysander Spooner
  • Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath. -- Jakob Bohme
  • If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party. -- Lysander Spooner
  • All that men will serve God with must be done in Faith, viz. in the Spirit. It is the Spirit that maketh the work perfect, and acceptable in the sight of God. All that a man undertaketh and doeth in Faith, he doth in the Spirit of God, which Spirit of God doth co-operate in the work, and then it is acceptable to God. -- Jakob Bohme
  • Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes. -- Torbern Bergman
  • Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). -- George Herbert
  • I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the universe is unchangeable. -- William John Macquorn Rankine
  • Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
  • Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur. -- Oliver Lodge
  • Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling. -- Carl Linnaeus
  • The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts. -- Samuel Pepys
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