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This lofty anticipation pervades all their theories, and by its fruitful influence engenders that wondrous grasp and fertility of thought which gives their speculations an undying value. It is true that in the later systems this consciousness is less strongly present.
The highest of these are: Spirit of inquiry, power of ruling and mastering self, a brave heart, clearness of perception, ardent affection, acuteness in the art of exposition, and fruitful creative power. The efficient forces of all these God has above all and originally in himself.
This is especially true in courses in English and history; for instance where the high school student formerly studied about Chaucer in a textbook, he is now more likely required to read a selection. This method while more fruitful in results than the old text-book method presents new difficulties both to teacher and to student.
Bachelor uncle Batchford, and his old maiden sister, both conceived the strongest affection for the child. "Our niece Lucilla," they said, "has justified our fondest hopes she is a Batchford, not a Finch!" "Wait a bit, and money will come of it," was all he said. Truly money was wanted! with fruitful Mrs. Finch." Lucilla grew up from childhood to womanhood.
"The exportation has averaged EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED for the last twenty years. Forty years ago, the whites exceeded the colored 25,000, the colored now exceed the whites 81,000; and these results too during an exportation of near 260,000 slaves since the year 1790, now perhaps the fruitful progenitors of half a million in other states.
Small, now, they would seem to us; but to the infinite mind all things small and great are alike; the spore of rust in the ear is very slight, but a famine in the corn will shake the world. Pinckney's life the world called lazy; his leisure was not fruitful, and his sixty years of life were but a gentleman's.
The Persians and Greeks, being by descent related to ourselves, present fewer difficulties in this respect than the Egyptians, whose dwelling-place on the fruitful islands won by the Nile from the Desert, completely isolated them from the rest of the world.
I would give his first-born, rather than any one else, this fruitful soil, and, when the rich father's favorite, when Leonax once rules here by Xanthe's side, there'll be no lack of means to rebuild the platform and renew a few marble benches." Angered by these words, the old man indignantly exclaimed: "You add mockery to wrong. We know the truth.
In the severe winters that sometimes were fruitful of blinding blizzards, sweeping from the north in an intensity of fury that was almost inconceivable, the buffalo too congregated there for shelter, and to browse on the twigs of the great trees. The once famous grove, though denuded of much of its timber, may still be seen from the car windows as the trains hurry mountainward.
He was ready in his perceptions, fruitful in resources, and possessed of great vigor in action. Though courageous, he was cautious; and his counsels, when not warped by passion, were wise and wary. But he had other qualities, which more than counterbalanced the good resulting from excellent parts and attainments. His ambition and avarice were insatiable.
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