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"When I please I do, but not often, or for long. Your world is such a half-baked sort of place, it is at once so childish and so self-satisfied in fact, it is not sufficiently developed for an old raven at your service!" "Am I wrong, then, in presuming that a man is superior to a bird?" "That is as it may be. We do not waste our intellects in generalising, but take man or bird as we find him.
We fell into generalising about humanity, made stern reflections on the future of Europe and mankind in general, authoritatively predicted that after Caesarism France would at once sink into the position of a second-rate power, and were firmly convinced that this might terribly easily and quickly come to pass.
Titian's real excellence consisted in the power of generalising and of individualising at the same time: if it wore merely the former, it would be difficult to account for the error immediately after pointed out by Sir Joshua.
'This generalising is so easy, said Sidwell, with a laugh, 'and so worthless. I wonder you should be so far behind the times. 'What light have the times thrown on the subject? 'There's no longer such a thing as woman in the abstract. We are individuals. 'Don't imagine it!
M'Culloch is simply generalising Adam Smith's congenial doctrine that statesmen are guilty of absurd presumption when they try to interfere with a man's management of his own property. This theory, again, is expressed by the familiar maxim pas trop gouverner, which is common to the whole school, and often accepted explicitly. It will be quite enough to notice one or two characteristic results.
Phidias has represented these waves like a mass of overlapping tiles, thus generalising their rippling movement. In the Mæander pattern the graceful curves of nature are represented by angles, as in the Egyptian hieroglyphic of water: so again the earliest representation of the labyrinth on the coins of the Cnossus is rectangular; on later coins we find the curvilinear form introduced.
Even now there is perhaps a disposition to undervalue these accounts, or rather to decline generalising from them, as forming part of the traditions of a Semitic people.
That is to say, we can see how such simple laws as that action and reaction are equal and opposite may have been self-evolved, and from this fact we go on generalising and generalising, until we land ourselves in wholly symbolic and a paradox is here legitimate inconceivable conceptions.
Once arrived thus far, they saw that, instead of municipal notes, it would be better to create exchequer bills, which would have a compulsory circulation, and answer the purpose of specie: this was simplifying the operation by generalising it. In this way the assignats had their origin. This invention was of great utility to the revolution, and alone secured the sale of ecclesiastical property.
Hailes and Pinkerton, Robertson and Laing there is nothing else for it and Pinkerton is poor work. Laing, besides his party spirit, has a turn for generalising, which renders him rather dull, which was not the nature of the acute Orcadian. July 25. Thomson left us this morning early.
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