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We have always wondered at the breadth and the manifoldness of the English soul, in whose literature one finds, side by side, Milton and Swift, Scott and Shelley, Shakespeare and Byron.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various

"The child has an intimation in the cube of the unity which lies at the foundation of all manifoldness, and from which the latter proceeds."

From Froebel's Gifts by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

The spiritual power and manifoldness and largeness which is the most informing quality of a really cultivated man comes from a certain  refinement in him, a gift of knowing by tasting.

From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley

That is why the Sanskrit verse has given us for the essential elements of a picture, not only the manifoldness of forms and the unity of their proportions, but also bhávah, the emotional idea.

From Creative Unity by Tagore, Rabindranath

As in the Parthenon all the elements harmonize and the edifice is one, so in Lincoln moral manifoldness unifies.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.