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But it is impossible, that the true social arts should be smelt out, or stumbled on, by accident, or arrived at by any kind of empirical groping; just as impossible as it is, on the other hand, that 'the wisdom of nature, by throwing itself on its own internal resources, and reasoning it 'thus and thus, without taking into account the actual forces, should be able to invent them.
Odd as it sounds, I had at this time both a brother and a father, neither of whom would have been able to challenge me as a relative, nor I him, had we happened to meet on the public roads. In my father's case, this arose from the accident of his having lived abroad for a space that, measured against my life, was a very long one.
"Presenting my hand, therefore, to Vitangela, I escorted her to that part of the ground where the company were now assembled, and where I hoped that some accident might make known to me the person of the gallant with whom, as I supposed, she had walked in the avenue.
Cunningham." After a quarter of a century of married life, she had very few illusions left. Religion for her was a habit, and she suspected that a man of her husband's age would not change greatly before death. She was tempted to see a curious appropriateness in his accident and, but that she did not wish to seem bloody-minded, would have told the gentlemen that Mr.
On account of the little accident, and not being certain of its extent, it was deemed best not to send the ship ahead. So they laid to until morning. For the better part of two days all those on board the Mermaid had their hands full mending the break and making other repairs found necessary.
"You are pouring it down my neck," was her quiet response to his first essay. In the end he succeeded in aiming the whisky in the right direction, and after taking some himself, passed it on, feeling much refreshed. Just before a terrible accident occurred, which threatened death to one or both.
"There you are," said Robert coolly, "Fancy my head in that condition." "You used the word 'pitched. Do you mean that someone cannoned against you?" "Not a bit of it. It was no accident of a hurrying man blindly following an umbrella. I have been a sailor, Mr. Brett, and am accustomed to maintaining my balance in a sudden lurch. I do it intuitively.
Six times a minute we held our breaths and stood on tiptoe with anxiety, powerless to help, while the horse did his best. At the especially bad places we checked them off one after another, congratulating ourselves on so much saved as each came across without accident.
As in rowing, you soon learn how to get along and handle the craft, but it takes long practice before you can do this with dignity and without getting the water all up your sleeve. One young man I knew had a very sad accident happen to him the first time he went punting.
A gun, knife or poison couldn't be used now it must look so much like an accident that no possible blame could be attached to him; so that the police could not hold him even for a short time.
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