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As to what some have called our creative powers, we take it for granted that no correct thinker has ever applied such expressions literally. Strictly speaking, we can make nothing: we can only construct.
He promised to get a copy of it for me; and here it is an exact copy, with all the imperfections of the original preserved. It has many slang expressions in it thieves' argot but their meaning has been interlined, in parentheses, by the prison authorities' St. Louis, June 9th 1872. Mr.
Good health and long life to him and may his love of the old sod increase with his years." The toast was drunk with expressions of approval, and Franklin only arose and bowed and briefly spoke his acknowledgments in a single sentence, and then added: "Lord Howe can assure you that public men receive more praise and more blame than they really merit.
For which reason he ought to be well studied in the analysis of those circumstances which constitute dignity of appearance in real life. As in invention, so likewise in, expression, care must be taken not to run into particularities, Those expressions alone should be given to the figures which their respective situations generally produce.
I venture to suggest that such terms may be found by reverting to the old, but now usually discarded, expressions 'welfare' and 'well-being. These words, it seems to me, do not primarily suggest material prosperity, like happiness, nor the gratification of the lower parts of our nature, like pleasure, nor the exclusive development of the higher parts of our nature, like perfection, but cover the whole ground of healthy human activity and the conditions which are favourable to it.
They would have disgusted one if they had not excited one's pity. Alas, they were vanquished! The Parisians were eager for news as to recent military operations, for they had only read in the morning papers as they always did during this frightful siege enigmatical despatches and bulletins purposely bristling with strategic expressions not comprehensible to the outsider.
This is very true of Cooper; and much of the worth and popularity of his novels is to be ascribed to the unconscious expressions and revelations they give of the estimable and attractive qualities of the man.
Their expressions and demeanour seem to indicate more independence and initiative than is usual with most savage women, but whether this is actually so or not I cannot say. On this imposing and pleasing physical foundation your true Masai is content to build a very slight superstructure of ornament.
Lady Isabel the while standing by, with the most amiable air of pity, with expressions of the finest moral sensibility, softening all her mother said, finding ever some excuse for the poor creatures, and following, with angelic sweetness, to heal the wounds her mother inflicted.
The expressions she had let slip had rendered him somewhat eager to close the conversation; for he noticed that they were not lost on several of the bystanders. The officers, as well as the priests and alcalde, exchanged significant glances while she was uttering them.
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