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The term, general good, may be defined as the rearing of the greatest number of individuals in full vigour and health, with all their faculties perfect, under the conditions to which they are subjected.

He felt light and well, it seemed as if he had never yet walked so rapidly and so indefatigably. He avoided the high road, and again a sort of instinctive knowledge conducted him through the shortest and safest ways. When the sun went down and the shadows became darker, images arose in his imagination more clear and defined with the encreasing obscurity.

"The greater the size of the pharynx, whether through practice or natural gifts, the stronger in proportion is the tone." Still this idea, a literal interpretation of the "open throat" precept, receives much attention in practical instruction. Only one muscular action has ever been defined by which the throat might be "opened."

As the minutes went by, it became with her a matter of sensation rather than of mental effort of odd, dream-like sensation, in which all the protecting walls and clearly defined boundary-lines of life and conduct appeared to be melting away, leaving an immeasurable outlook on vacancy.

Certain incumbrances, however, still resisted the squirrel's general eviction; among them a folded square of paper with sharply defined edges, that declined investigation, and, owing to a nauseous smell of tobacco, escaped nibbling as it had apparently escaped insect ravages.

For this, I suggest with confidence to a Liberal audience, is the condition by which all liberty must be defined. If we grant that it is the duty of the Boards to aim at a decent minimum one which in Mr. Seebohm Rowntree's phrase would secure the "human needs" of labour we have still some very difficult points of principle and of detail to settle.

He defined the character of the Union as it existed in 1830, and that definition so magnificently stated, and with such grand eloquence, went home to the hearts of the people, and put into noble words the sentiment which they felt but had not expressed. This was the significance of the reply to Hayne. It mattered not what men thought of the Constitution in 1789.

But a little study will show you a clearly defined system contained in them." "Well, you might say there were three lines of it," said Pendleton, after a moment's inspection. "Right," said Ashton-Kirk. "Three lines there are, and each follows a row of tack heads.

At a later day, when the position of that great man was most clearly defined to the world, the Cardinal's ancient affection for his former friend and pupil did not prevent him from suggesting the famous ban by which a price was set upon his head, and his life placed in the hands of every assassin in Europe.

The sun sank below the distant horizon, with the trees showing clearly against it, for the atmosphere was as transparent as crystal; and the light of the stars that came out one by one almost cast a defined shadow upon our path, from the poplar-trees standing in long, straight rows in the hedges. If I found Olivia at the end of that starlit path my gladness in it would be completed.