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Perhaps some day some industrious and lucid historian will disentangle all the muddle of impulses and antagonisms, the commercialism, utilitarianism, obstinate conservatism, humanitarian enthusiasm, out of which our present educational organisation arose.
If he wished to escape, this must be his way; but as he looked at her when she came off the stage, where he always attended her, he assured himself that he did not wish to escape. Time went on and Parliament met. Mr. O'Mahony went before the Speaker's table and was sworn in. He was introduced by two brother Landleaguers, and really did take his place with some enthusiasm.
Jewell shook his head. "She wouldn't go without me," he said, gravely. "You've no idea 'ow particular she is. Always was from a child." "Well, we might lose you," said the skipper, reflecting. "How would that be?" "We might try it," said the cook, without enthusiasm.
He was a preacher of righteousness, and in all probability went from city to city and village to village, as Saint Bernard did when he preached a crusade against the infidels, as John the Baptist did when he preached repentance, as Whitefield did when he sought to kindle religious enthusiasm in England.
The elevating influence of the noble sentiments with which the higher dramatic works abound, is more loudly called for in this than it has been in any former period of British history. We are no longer in the age of enthusiasm. The days of chivalry have gone by and gone by, it is feared, never to return. We are in the age of commerce and the mechanical arts.
It is a piece of work in which every step counts, and just one summer's work may bring results that will help millions of people in the years yet to come." "And I shall have a share!" cried Colin, his enthusiasm kindling. "Every one has a share; in the Fisheries, no work is wasted, no energy is lost.
At this moment Madeline uttered a faint shriek, and clung trembling to Aram's arm. Amazed, and roused from his enthusiasm, he looked up, and on seeing the cause of her alarm, seemed himself transfixed, as by a sudden terror, to the earth.
A tremendous tumult of voices accompanied all these, but when the Trinity College graduates arrived the din became overpowering. Their standard was halted opposite Mr. Balfour, and the young fellows burst into wild and uncontrollable enthusiasm.
No wonder the army was roused to enthusiasm, or that it exclaimed with one voice, "At last we have found a King!" So strong was Louis in his new martial resolve that he actually refused Madame de Chateauroux permission to accompany him.
The king was almost beside himself with rapture when the great news reached him, and he straightway wrote letters, overflowing with gratitude and religious enthusiasm, to the pontiff and expressed his regret that military operations did not allow him to proceed at once to Rome in person to kiss the holy father's feet. The narrative returns to Fuentes, who was left before the walls of Cambray.
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