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And meanwhile I am throwing out the ideas as they come, careless if the second appears to contradict the first: presently a unity may come of them; meanwhile, for the purposes of the Fifth Root-Race, then nascent, a language-type had grown up, intellectual as any in Atlantis, because this Fifth Race was to be intellectual too, but also spiritual: not without tonalistic elements: a thing to be chanted, and not dully spoken: and there, when the time came for, it to be born, you had the Sanskrit.
Thoughtless people contradict as readily the statement of perceptions as of opinions, or rather much more readily; for they do not distinguish between perception and notion. They fancy that I choose to see this or that thing. But perception is not whimsical, but fatal.
Remember, the one does not contradict the other; but let us ask ourselves if the one does not explain the other. If it be that these mercies are so innumerable as my first text says, may it not be that they go deep down beneath, and include in their number, the experience that seems most opposite to them, even the sorrow that afflicts our lives?
From torture to abjuration, and from that to the communion, there was often only twenty-four hours' distance; and executioners were the conductors of the converts and their witnesses. Those who in the end appeared to have been reconciled, more at leisure did not fail by their flight, or their behaviour, to contradict their pretended conversion.
He doesn't know it himself, poor dear, not yet, but that's what he's done." Well, I couldn't contradict her, not after the way I had seen him looking at her across the table. "What are your feelings towards him," I says, "to be quite honest? He's rather a good catch for a young person in your position." "That's my trouble," she says. "I can't help thinking of that. And then to be 'Mrs.
So that you see these two tendencies need not precisely contradict one another, as the ultimate result may not always be very remote from what would have been the case if the line had been quite straight.
Did you read it?" "Yes." "The play is absolutely dependent on the leading part and I have found it simply impossible to fill. Now, here's a woman of extraordinary grace and beauty " Betty lifted skeptical eyebrows, twisted her limber mouth, but forbore to contradict. "And with a magical voice a woman who not only looks the part, but is it. You remember Luck's heroine?"
"Didn't you get thrashed sometimes?" "It did happen. Why?" "Why, you might have challenged them... altogether it must have been lively." "I won't contradict you, and besides I am no hand at philosophy. I confess that I hastened here for the sake of the women." "As soon as you buried Marfa Petrovna?" "Quite so," Svidrigailov smiled with engaging candour. "What of it?
He smiled, but did not contradict her, and Beulah sang that exquisite ballad, "Why Do Summer Roses Fade?" It was one of her guardian's favorite airs, and now his image was associated with the strain. Ere the first verse was finished, a deep, rich, manly voice, which had sometimes echoed through the study, seemed again to join hers, and, despite her efforts, her own tones trembled.
I dare say Miss Rachel is a little bit singular, but she is not quite cracked. You see, it will all get straight in the end; it will still all come right some day." This was the refrain of all Mrs. Worse's observations on this head, and her son saw plainly it was of no use to contradict her.
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