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From that time on the soul rushes, as it were, to its natural occupation. Its mentality, aroused by music, becomes full of some sort of aptitude, and it enters the avenues of its congruous activity as easily, as quickly, as justly as the growing flower turns toward the Sun wherever it may be. "Let me present to you the curious scene my eyes encountered as I sat in the great Chorus Hall.
But the author, naturally and inevitably, failed to produce a congruous scheme of saving truth and religious appeal. The result is that we see, on almost every page, contradictory teachings and conflicting methods of salvation.
But yet I think that another view of the subject, not less congruous with universal reason and more agreeable to the light of reason in the human understanding, might be defended, without detracting from any perfection of the Divine Being. Nay, I think that Skelton needed but one step more to have seen it. Ib. p. 478. 'In fine. To what purpose were these Reflections, taken as a whole, written?
And if that be the meaning, as seems more congruous with the command of purity which is deduced from the function of bearing the vessels, then the figure here, of course, is that of a company of priests.
The poets turned April into May, and seemed to think that they lent a grace to the year if they shortened and abridged the spring of their many songs. The particular year they sang of was to be a particularly fine year, as who should say a fine child and forward, with congruous syntax at two years old, and ellipses, figures, and tropes.
Those expositors are probably right who think that "with himself" is connected with "stood," rather than "prayed." It is in perfect accord with the narrative to intimate that he stood by himself he was not the man to mingle with the common herd of worshippers; but it does not seem congruous to intimate that he prayed with himself.
As to grammar, I submit; the consequences of anarchy dismay me; but I question whether in words coinage is an attribute of sovereignty. There is, of course, plenty of false money going around, current because accepted; but I think a man is at liberty to pass a new word, a word without authority in dictionaries, if it be congruous to standard etymology.
How to raise on this irregular and 'barbarous' ground a quarter that should be 'polite', congruous in tone with the smooth river beyond it this was the irresistible problem the Brothers set themselves and slowly, coolly, perfectly solved. So long as the Adelphi remains to us, a microcosm of the eighteenth century is ours. If there is any meaning in the word sacrilege
But the case is this: when, in a distant region of the world, I sought for and eagerly read anything I could find relating to country scenes and life in England the land of my desire I was never able to get an extended and congruous view of it, with a sense of the continuity in human and animal life in its relation to nature.
Porterfield when he comes on to meet her if they keep it up in the same way," said Mrs. Peck. "Oh they'll keep it up, don't you fear!" one of the gentlemen exclaimed. "Dear madam, the Captain's having his joke on you," was, however, my own congruous reply. "No, he ain't he's right down scandalised. He says he regards us all as a real family and wants the family not to be downright coarse."
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