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But had you and those with whom you associated yourself succeeded, what fatal mischief might have been done to the great inheritance which has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers that inheritance of power which it must be our work to use nobly and for good things; an inheritance of influence which will be of little effect even for good unless backed by power, and of duty which cannot be effectually performed if our power be shattered and our influence impaired.
Being a young nation, so far as the adoption of Western methods are concerned, the Siamese are extremely sensitive, being almost pathetically eager to win the good opinion of the Occidental world. In doing this, I think that the king made a mistake, for he deprived his country of a distinctive emblem which was associated with Siam the whole world over.
"Visions" in the sense that is associated with trance, we shall hardly call them. They are pictures showing his gift of imagination. Lastly, on this part of our subject, let us remind ourselves of the many parables and pictures and sayings which put God himself before us.
Porto Rico is, by the American people, even more than the Spaniards, associated with Cuba. But it is less than a tenth of Cuban proportions. Porto Rico has 3,600 square miles to Cuba's 42,000, but a much greater proportion of Porto Rico than of Cuba is cultivated.
Above all, the owner of the soil could still hold his head high as the veritable Socman of Minstead that is, as holding the land in free socage, with no feudal superior, and answerable to no man lower than the king. Knowing this, Alleyne felt some little glow of worldly pride as he looked for the first time upon the land with which so many generations of his ancestors had been associated.
It is by no means certain that the names so linked together were thus associated in early times, and the fashion may have been a later one, which, like other fashions, spread after it had once begun.
Heat and cold are the active powers, wet and dry are the passive qualities, wet being associated with heat, dry with cold. The mixture of these qualities with the corporeal basis results in the four elements. The three natures, mineral, plant, animal are composed of the four elements. When a seed is put in the ground it cannot grow without water, and sunshine and air.
Modest critics shelter themselves under that general amnesty too freely granted, that tastes are allowed to differ; but we should approximate much nearer to the truth, if we were to say, that but few of mankind are prepared to relish the beautiful with that enlarged taste which comprehends all the forms of feeling which genius may assume; forms which may be necessarily associated with defects.
"No, but as soon as she heard that Senor Ramo had left suddenly, she associated it with the taking of her documents, evidently." "Nonsense!" exclaimed Walter. "That's what I say," added Cora. "But we mustn't make fun of Inez she can't bear it." "Of course not. Besides, I guess none of us feel very much like making fun," went on Walter.
I may have occasion hereafter to speak of "roads," but I mean by the word nothing more than the geometrician means by a "line" simple longitudinal extension without any of the sensible qualities which are popularly associated with it.
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