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The individual consciousness is complete only by including the attachments, in narrower and broader relations, to precisely the elements that enter into patriotism to place, to the fundamental ways and appreciations of the social surroundings, to persons, to authority, to traditions.
They reflect the difference between the bustling intellectual activity of Florence and the dreamy existence but broader horizon of the dwellers in the upper valley of the Tiber. Piero shared with Paolo Uccello the eager desire to discover the secrets of perspective; but in addition he seems to have been influenced by the study of nature herself, in the open air, as Uccello never was.
My hand gripped hard against the back of a chair. Why should I have hoped she did not? "God!" she gasped. "I have killed him!" "You?" I cried, but she did not answer. "Huh!" said Brutus, and his grin grew broader. "Monsieur's pistol. He kill him." "Indeed," I said, for the sense of unreality was still strong upon me. "And whom did he kill, Brutus?"
"I had placed," says Priestley with due modesty, "the foundation of some of the most valuable interests of mankind on a broader and firmer basis than Mr. Locke"; and the breadth and firmness are Rousseau's contribution. Certainly we herein meet new elements. On the very threshold of the book we meet the dogma of the perfectibility of man.
"See thee!" said the old man, speaking broader and broader in his earnestness. "If thy father would send thee, nay, what am I saying? if I took thee for naught and gladly, thou'dst sooner come to the old schoolmaster and his books than stay with pigs, even in a wood? Eh, laddie? Will ye come to school?"
In some places they are much fiercer than in others; but this may arise from different species being the inhabitants of these different places. There is the true crocodile, with long sharp snout, and large external tusks; and the caiman, with a snout broader and more pike-shaped; and the former is a much more courageous and man-eating creature.
He was not as heavy as stout William, but he was taller and broader in the shoulders, and all his joints were well knit. Sir Richard looked upon him keenly, then, turning to one of the judges, he said, "Knowest thou who this youth is? Methinks I have seen him before." "Nay," said the judge, "he is a stranger to me."
A retrospective survey shows that had the men in control of the American gas-lighting art, in 1880, been sufficiently far-sighted, and had they taken a broader view of the situation, they might easily have remained dominant in the whole field of artificial lighting by securing the ownership of the patents and devices of the new industry.
This yellow color is quite constant and does not vary in any marked degree, notwithstanding the fact that it seems to make narrower and broader stripes, according to the parts of the corolla left free by the red pigment. But it is easily seen that this appearance is only a fallacious one.
The sister put her in a room by herself and she jumped out of the window and threatened to run away to the woods if she were sent again. M. Bellestre thinks to come to Detroit sometime, when it will be settled no doubt. His daughter is married now. He may take Jeanne back with him." "That would be a blessing. But she has an eager mind and now we are learning that a broader education is necessary.
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