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Sydney Smith says that every Englishman feels himself able, without instruction, to drive a pony-chaise, conduct a small farm, and edit a newspaper. The average American assumes, in addition to all this, that he is competent to manage a bank. President Jackson claimed for himself in this respect no more than his fellows; the difference was in strength of will and in possession of power.
It altered only the predicate, changing The successive places of, e.g. Mars, are A, B, C, and so forth, into The successive places of, e.g. Mars, are points in an ellipse: whereas induction always widens the subject. Induction is generalisation from experience. It assumes, in short, that the course of nature is uniform, that is, that all things take place according to general laws.
Can the imagination picture existence more inane? But regardless of what the mentally, physically, and morally perfect individuals might do after attaining their perfection, anarchy assumes the millennium, and the millennium is yet a long way off.
"O you spendthrift!" she cries and tears the flowers from my hand in order to pirouette with them before the mirror. And then she assumes a solemn expression and takes me by a coat button, draws me nearer and says: "So, and now you may kiss me as a reward." I hear and cannot grasp my bliss. My heart seems to struggle out at my throat, but hard before me bloom her lips. I am brave and kiss her.
At once Maria assumes the rôle of mother toward the boy and now "that once more she had to care for some one, she was again the calm and serene being." What had so thrown her out of her course? It was not so much the banishment from the father's house, not the contempt of all the world, nor even of her very oldest and truest friend.
Pelle could survey them all from his point of vantage. Old memories of battle rose to his mind; his blood grew warm, and he caught himself, up in the drawing-office, making plans of campaign for this trade or that. His was the quick-fighting blood that assumes the offensive, and he noted their blunders; they were not acting with sufficient energy.
Dishonesty carries his eyes high, and assumes that any question respecting him must be considered to be unnecessary." "Oh, Frank, what a philosopher you are." "Well, yes; meditating about your diamonds has brought my philosophy out. When do you think you will go to Scotland?" "I am hardly strong enough for the journey yet. I fear the cold so much."
It assumes, furthermore, that it actually is understood by the legislators and judges who make and interpret the written law. It also assumes that the people must understand the natural law, before they can understated the written law.
Eventually you are little by little won over by the charming way in which your wife makes herself agreeable to you. Madame assumes a tone of friendship which she never henceforth abandons. The pleasant atmosphere of your home is one of the chief compensations which renders the Minotaur less odious to a husband.
The postman who drove in with the daily mail brought for Peter Champneys the yellow envelope toward which he had been looking with such feverish impatience. He was really to go! The young man experienced that reeling, ecstatic shock which shakes one when a long-delayed desire suddenly assumes reality.
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