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On the 14th of August, the Argus, of twenty guns, employed in carrying out Mr. Crawford, the American Minister to France, was met after having landed the minister off St.
This was the work of Vulcan, who gave it to Jove the son of Saturn. Jove gave it to Mercury, slayer of Argus, guide and guardian. King Mercury gave it to Pelops, the mighty charioteer, and Pelops to Atreus, shepherd of his people.
Choice exerted by the female Length of courtship Unpaired birds Mental qualities and taste for the beautiful Preference or antipathy shewn by the female for particular males Variability of birds Variations sometimes abrupt Laws of variation Formation of ocelli Gradations of character Case of Peacock, Argus pheasant, and Urosticte.
After another year passed in this new pursuit, experimenting on every imaginable substance glass, gems, flints, crystals, artificial crystals formed of the alloy of various vitreous materials in short, having constructed as many varieties of lenses as Argus had eyes I found myself precisely where I started, with nothing gained save an extensive knowledge of glass-making.
Though Solon's public mien for a week or more had been hint enough of his secret to those who knew him well, I was, possibly, the first to whom he confided it in words. He sent for me one crisp October morning, and I rushed over to the Argus office, knowing that he must have matters of importance to communicate. I found him pacing the little sanctum, scanning a still damp sheet of proof.
There were Jupiter and Juno; there were Argus with his hundred eyes, the beautiful heifer that was Io, and the crafty Mercury. In rapt attention we listened until those eyes of Argus were transferred to the feathers of the peacock. If Mercury's story of his musical pipe closed the eyes of Argus, grandmother's story opened ours wide, and we clamored for another, as boys will do.
Yes; but if you make your governing body a unit or a ten, or any small number, how is this power, unless it is Argus- eyed, and myriad-minded, and right-minded too, to choose the right men any better than they are found now? The great danger, as it appears to me, of representative government is lest it should slide down from representative government to delegate government.
Public opinion, also, still needed to be educated; the constant drain of men for the wars and the increase in the price of necessaries led to grumblings in the Press, which claimed the presence of his Argus eye and the adoption of a very stringent censorship. But, above all, there was the commercial war with England.
I leave you to judge how eyes were used on board the Abraham Lincoln. For my own part I was not behind the others, and, left to no one my share of daily observations. The frigate might have been called the Argus, for a hundred reasons.
Argus, who was quickly quieted by his friends' tone of kindly admonition, stood aside silent and with his head down while Antinous knelt by the senseless girl on whom the pale light of early dawn fell through wide window. The boy looked with alarm on her pale face, lifted her helpless arm, and sought on her light-colored dress for any trace of blood that might have been drawn, but in vain.
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