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He is a survival of an almost vanished race which the railways have caused to disappear. Much destruction of beautiful scenery is, alas! inevitable. Trade and commerce, mills and factories, must work their wicked will on the landscapes of our country. Mr. Ruskin's experiment on the painting of Turner, quoted in our opening chapter, finds its realisation in many places.
"That she should disappear altogether from my sight and from the child's, naturally. Good heaven, I should like to include Amherst in that! But I'm tied hand and foot, as you see, by Cicely's interests; and I'm bound to say she exonerated him completely completely!" Mrs. Ansell was again silent, but a swift flight of thoughts traversed her drooping face.
Under the lee of the shoals this cauldron would disappear, while the mountain waves of the open ocean could not rise until a certain distance from the shallow water enabled them to 'get up, as sailors express it.
He ceased speaking, while the shadows of centuries gone crept into his eyes. Tales of the misty past always inspired him. "Yes," he continued. "It rained for weeks and weeks, while the mountain torrents roared thunderingly down, and the sea crept silently up. The level lands were first to float in sea water, then to disappear. The slopes were next to slip into the sea.
Thus in the valley of the Po, a region where, if the soil were forest-clad, the down-wearing of the surface would probably be at no greater rate than one foot in five thousand years, the river bears away the soil detritus so rapidly that at the present time the downgoing is at the rate of one foot in eight hundred years, and each decade sees the soil disappear from hillsides which were once fertile, but are now reduced to bare rocks.
Ten years disappear in a flash! Now what in the world had I better be agreeable and chatty, or cold and stand-off? I'll do anything to please her, but it is hard lines having our afternoon spoiled, and being sulked at into the bargain. Cakes, please lots of sweet, sugary cakes! Won't that do, Cecil? We can have bread-and-butter at home!" "Cecil! Cecil! Her name is Mary.
Gower, I only know one thing; I shall never give him any of my own cake again, because he looked just as if he was going to die, or have a tooth drawn, all the time he was eating it to-day." Then they disappear, still hand-in-hand, in search of the refractory puppies, and Portia, turning to Sir Mark, says softly: "What am I to think now? How is it with them? Have they "
His omnipotence cannot be denied, if the existence of a Deity is posited the existence, that is, of an infinite being, the two conceptions being identical. But when you say, God does not exist, neither omnipotence nor any other predicate is affirmed; they must all disappear with the subject, and in this judgement there cannot exist the least self-contradiction.
These immaturities will be found to disappear, as his sphere widens and his responsibilities increase. After the close of the campaign, Nelson made a short cruise from Genoa to the westward, seeing the French on November 29 in full possession of Vado Bay.
Vagualame's arrest had made a terrible impression on her.... Vagualame had not betrayed her; but she sensed snares, pitfalls all about her: she might be trapped any minute: she must disappear!
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