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A small quick-firing gun of continental manufacture and of recent make which was found in the possession of the Khalifa seems to point to the existence or contemplation of similar relations with the Dervishes. But how far these operations were designed to assist the Marchand Mission is known only to those who initiated them, and to a few others who have so far kept their own counsel.
"Forgive me," he said. "I was hasty, inconsiderate. "You quite took my breath away," she panted, looking up at him with a queer little smile. "I know," he murmured. Her troubled gaze resumed its sober contemplation of the flame. "How was I to tell " she began, but checked herself. "Please, Mr. King, you won't say anything more to me about about it, just now, will you?
Herbert on a visit of ceremony, or the failure of the 'Social Reformer' to pierce the lofty ethereal regions of abstract contemplation where Herbert himself sat throned like an Epicurean god in the pure halo of cultivated pococurantism.
He never interrupted her in her enthusiastic contemplation of the great stars, but he would now and then seize an interval of rest to compare her observations with his own; anxious to know whether she estimated their relative magnitude and distances as he did.
I know not how thy power has been bestowed upon thee; yet, if to harmonise the feelings, to allow the thoughts to spring without control, rising like the white vapour from the cottage hearth, on a morning that is sunny and serene; if to impart that sober sadness over the spirit, which inclines us to forgive our enemy, that calm philosophy which reconciles us to the ingratitude and knavery of the world, that heavenly contemplation whispering to us, as we look around, that "All is good;" if these be merits, they are thine, most potent weed.
As this serene contemplation of the visible heavens insensibly lifted up his mind from the works of God in nature to the same God as he is seen in revelation, it occurred to him that this very connexion was clearly intimated by the royal prophet in the nineteenth Psalm that most beautiful description of the greatness and power of God exhibited in the former part, plainly seeming intended to introduce, illustrate, and unfold the operations of the word and Spirit of God on the heart in the latter.
Thus a change has been effected during the past three years, in the contemplation of which I can only exclaim, 'What hath God wrought!" Even the chief medicine man himself abandoned his sorceries, and came forward as an inquirer
Is there danger of adopting an ideal that, while it is worthy as far as it goes, is merely incidental and not worth while? How can the contemplation of a rainbow educate? What education should result from a view of Niagara Falls? What qualities would a teacher have to possess that her influence aside from her teaching might be of more value than the teaching itself?
In the latter I naturally encountered the influence of Mazzini, which was a source of great comfort to me, although perhaps I went too suddenly from a contemplation of his wonderful ethical and philosophical appeal to the workingmen of Italy, directly to the lecture rooms at Johns Hopkins University, for I was certainly much disillusioned at this time as to the effect of intellectual pursuits upon moral development.
The American character is, in all the moral connotation of the word, pronouncedly more insular than the British. Like the English, except that they were much more effectively staked off from the rest of the world, the Americans have found the marvel of their own superiority to all mankind a fit and pleasing subject for contemplation.
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