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Giri primarily meant no more than duty, and I dare say its etymology was derived from the fact that in our conduct, say to our parents, though love should be the only motive, lacking that, there must be some other authority to enforce filial piety; and they formulated this authority in Giri.
Like many another prince who has come to a violent end, he was born to the wrong metier. "I derived the notion," he continued, "from a sanbenito in a Goya picture." "An ominous garb," said Bjelke, smiling curiously. "The garment of the sinner on his way to penitential doom." Armfelt cried out in a protest of mock horror, but Gustavus laughed cynically. "Oh, I confess that it would be most apt.
Ye first-born beings, ye are displayed in this wondrous universe of five elements! I desire to obtain you by the help of the knowledge derived from hearing, and of meditation, for ye are Infinite! Ye are the course itself of Nature and intelligent Soul that pervades that course! Ye are birds of beauteous feathers perched on the body that is like to a tree!
On the other hand; by a liberality of commerce in extraordinary contrast with the practice of modern times, the Netherlanders were in the habit of trading directly with the arch-enemy of both Holland and England, even in the midst of their conflict with him, and it was complained of that even the munitions of war and the implements of navigation by which Spain had been enabled to effect its foot-hold in Brittany, and thus to threaten the English coast, were derived from this very traffic.
"Your grand'ther didn't then entirely forget the white man!" "So far from that, there are already three among us, who have also names derived from that scout." "A name, did you say?" exclaimed the old man, starting; "what, the name of the solitary, unl'arned hunter? Do the great, and the rich, and the honoured, and, what is better still, the just, do they bear his very, actual name?"
He speaks of the benefit of joinder as derived from the persona of the grantor. "He to whom a thing is granted shall have the benefit of joinder from the persona of his grantor." /2/ A benefit cannot be derived from a persona except by sustaining it.
In contrast to the States, which derived their powers unquestionably from the voters within their boundaries and could command their obedience, the Congress had no legal or constitutional basis, and was nothing more than the meeting place of delegates from voluntary allies. Such military authority as it exercised rested entirely upon the general agreement of the States.
Or again, interrogate 'pagan' and 'paganism, and you will find important history in them. You are aware that 'pagani, derived from 'pagus, a village, had at first no religious significance, but designated the dwellers in hamlets and villages as distinguished from the inhabitants of towns and cities.
True politeness is the smoothness of a refined mind and the tact of a kind heart. Politeness is a word derived from the Greek word polis, which means a city the inhabitants of which are supposed, by constant intercourse with each other, to be more refined in manners than the inhabitants of the country.
All this work was done for love only; and Edward's only reward was the pleasure he himself derived from thus jotting down the facts he had observed about the beautiful creatures he loved so well. Soon Mr. Smith induced the indefatigable shoemaker to send a few papers on the birds and beasts to the Zoologist.
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