every excess become a vice..
Checks and balances protect people from the abuses of power and excess government. Also, they protect the civil populous from and distortions that any excess power can bring.
Dr. Sylvester Graham criticized American society for its unhealthy lifestyles, particularly regarding diet and sexual habits. He advocated for a vegetarian diet, emphasizing the consumption of whole grains and fresh fruits while condemning processed foods and overeating. Graham also believed that sexual excess and moral laxity were detrimental to public health and individual well-being, promoting a more temperate and disciplined way of living. His views reflected broader concerns about the impact of industrialization and urbanization on health and morality.
American patriotism came about due to England's refusal to understand that their expectations: taxation without representation, high prices of trade goods, expectation that only England could trade with the colonies - were in excess of what the people could tolerate. The Revolutionary War showed England and the world that the colonies - United States by 1776 - were ready, willing and capable of ruling themselves.
The crash, boom and bust, with lots of excess and spending were the boom years. All of these led to the Great Depression in 1929.
Gilded Age
Samuel Langhorne Clemens well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. This Gilded Age collection encompasses Mark Twain's literary career, starting with his first novel-length, fictional work, The Gilded Age, which he co-wrote with Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age is not only an introduction to Mark Twain's imagination and prose, it's also the work that named the era, a time of gaudy excess and a new class of wealth, political corruption, and westward expansion.
Jos. L. Bennett has written: 'Fashionable excess, a discourse' -- subject(s): American Sermons, Sermons, American
It was called "The Gilded Age" from Mark Twain's and Charles Warner's book, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Gilded means covered with gold, but cheaper material on the inside. The time period looked good, but was filled with corruption and poverty.
Andrew Carnegie
and worldwide membership (in ninety-two countries) in excess of 45,000.
Excess calorie, fat, and sodium
F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his novel "The Great Gatsby," which is considered a classic of American literature. He is also known for his exploration of the Jazz Age and the American Dream in his writing. Fitzgerald's works often portray the glamour and excess of the Roaring Twenties.
There are over 310 million people living in the United States of America.
Any matter right in carbon can be converted to diamonds with sufficient heat and pressure. This implies using the high-pressure high temperature method. Temperature in excess of 1,500C and pressure in excess of 45,000bars. To put that in American terms, that would be temperature in excess of 2,700F (about the temperature at which steel melts) and pressure in excess of 30,000 tons per square inch.
Ricardo Zavarce has written: 'Excess lower face height and its significance for facial morphology and occlusion'
Omer J. Chevrette has written: 'The excess of pacifism' -- subject(s): Pacifism, War