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At its best, then, the education given by the Great Public Schools and Universities fosters the growth of one of the expansive instincts, the communicative, a mighty instinct which opens up to imagination and sympathy the whole wide world of human life; but because it leaves all the other expansive instincts untended, it gives that one instinct an inadequate and unsymmetrical training, a training which checks the growth of the very faculties imagination and sympathy of which the instinct is largely compounded and for the sake of which it may almost be said to exist.
The threefold flush in her cheeks was compounded of youth and wine and fine cosmetic that he could tell. She was making great amusement for the young man on her left and the portly person on her right, and even for the old fellow opposite her, for the latter from time to time uttered the shocked and mildly reproachful cackles of another generation.
The elements, of which that important republic was to be compounded, were germinating for centuries.
My friend Atahalpa, the astrologer and alchymist, has long had a jar, in which he has been endeavoring to hatch a fairy, the ingredients being compounded according to a receipt of his own." But little they heeded Babbalanja. It was the traveler's tale that most arrested attention. Tough the thews, and tough the tales of Samoa.
Ah! yeoman and henchman of the race, he could not fail in his fidelity to the ship under his command. The iron of all his years of iron training was there manifest. While mutiny spread red, and death was on the wing, he could not forget his charge, the ship, the Elsinore, the insensate fabric compounded of steel and hemp and woven cotton that was to him glorious with personality.
Green, within, was generously busy with biscuits, cold chicken, doughnuts fried since sunrise, and coffee richly compounded with cream and sugar, which a great tin can stood waiting to receive and convey, and which was at length to serve as cooking utensil in reheating upon the fire of coals the picnickers would make up under the very tassel of Feather-Cap.
If they departed from the characters assigned, or if their memory proved treacherous in the repetition, they incurred forfeits, which were either compounded for by swallowing an additional bumper or by paying a small sum towards the reckoning. At this sport the jovial company were closely engaged when Mannering entered the room. Mr.
Largely compounded of the bravest Teutonic elements, Batavian and Frisian, the race ever battles to the death with tyranny, organizes extensive revolts in the age of Vespasian, maintains a partial independence even against the sagacious dominion of Charlemagne, refuses in Friesland to accept the papal yoke or feudal chain, and, throughout the dark ages, struggles resolutely towards the light, wresting from a series of petty sovereigns a gradual and practical recognition of the claims of humanity.
The sensation is, I should say, something between going up in a balloon and being upon shipboard a sensation compounded, maybe, of the creaking of the circular rigging, the pleasure of rising in the air, the freshening of the air as you ascend, the strange feeling of the earth receding and spreading out beneath you, the curious diminution of the people below to their proper size.
He descended three stairs, and entered a room laden with a sickly perfume compounded of stale beer and spirits; of greasy humanity European, Asiastic, and African; of cheap tobacco and cheaper scents; and, vaguely, of opium. It was fairly well lighted, but the fog had penetrated here, veiling some of the harshness of its rough appointments.
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