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Where the place or the persons do not contribute to the zest of the conversation, it is unnecessary to encumber my page with mentioning them. To know of what vintage our wine is, enables us to judge of its value, and to drink it with more relish: but to have the produce of each vine of one vineyard, in the same year, kept separate, would serve no purpose.
In any case our idea brings us into the object's neighborhood, practical or ideal, gets us into commerce with it, helps us towards its closer acquaintance, enables us to foresee it, class it, compare it, deduce it, in short, to deal with it as we could not were the idea not in our possession.
Human progress is over a vast field, and it is only at considerable intervals that a retrospective view enables us to discern whether the movement has been slow or rapid, onward or retrograde. The record of our race is essentially unwritten. What we call history is but made up of a few scattered fragments, while it is scarcely given to human intelligence to comprehend the great whole.
It may be utterly quenched by a Nicol prism, the cloud from which it issues being caused to disappear. Any deviation from the perpendicular enables a portion of the light to get through the prism. The direction of vibration of the polarized light is at right angles to the illuminating beam.
To seek two men in London unacquainted with Prince Florizel of Bohemia was to ask too much at Fortune's hands." "Prince Florizel!" cried Brackenbury in amazement. And he gazed with the deepest interest on the features of the celebrated personage before him. "I shall not lament the loss of my incognito," remarked the Prince, "for it enables me to thank you with the more authority.
"He shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked." A Paradisiacal state is to follow. This general description may be verified by Jesus hereafter; but we have no manifestation, which enables us to call the fulfilment a fact. But Philistines, Moab and Ammon, were distinctions entirely lost before the Christian era.
It is, of course a noble sort of courage which enables a man, at the very threshold of death, to force himself to behave with dignity and grandeur: but it seemed to me now to be an even more supreme courage to be, as Father Payne was, simply himself.
The fact that memory places on record our first impression of a thing is the reason why we are able to recognise it on the second occasion: otherwise we should have to make its acquaintance afresh every time. It is memory again which enables us to retain the mental pattern of an action we have once performed, and so to do it the more easily a second time, and on subsequent occasions.
We were among the first to turn out, and on the upper deck forward, a place where the passengers are fond of collecting, as it enables them to look ahead, we found a single individual who immediately drew all of our attention to himself. It was an aged man, with hair already as white as snow.
"I wrote that book, as I believed you would perceive when you had read it, in order to remove from the minds of the people those people who have not given the matter a thought the impression I know it prevails that our faith the truth of our religion is dependent upon the acceptance as good of such persons as our very religion itself enables us to pronounce evil.
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