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Mingling with her delights in the inanimate powers of Nature, in the sun and the wind, in the rain and the growth, in the running waters and the darkness sown with stars, was such a sense of His presence that she felt like him, He might at any moment appear to her father, or, should it so please Him, even to herself.
There were prettier girls, and as for beauty, that was not a thing to be spoken of at all in the matter. It was often inanimate, he thought, apt to rest upon its natural laurels, to think it did enough when it consented to look beautiful. He did not go in, himself, for the sublime.
For these may continue invariably the same, while the property changes. Property, therefore, must consist in some relation of the object. But it is not in its relation with regard to other external and inanimate objects. For these may also continue invariably the same, while the property changes. This quality, therefore, consists in the relations of objects to intelligent and rational beings.
All sorts of inanimate objects were defined as possessing some fancied attribute either for good or evil, and the one Almighty God became hidden and lost in the crowd of minor deities. In some nations the fancies of man went one way, in another another. The lower the intelligence of the people the lower their gods.
The Japanese have an instinctive knowledge of the influence of inanimate things, and use this knowledge with an unscrupulousness, which the crude foreigner only realises if ever after it is too late. Geoffrey's wife appeared hand in hand with cousin Sadako. There was nothing English in her looks.
The boy gazed upon the inanimate form, but he was dazed, and could not realize that his mother had left him, never to return. "She is gone," said Mr. Manning, softly. "Dead!" ejaculated Frank. "Yes, her sufferings are over. Let us hope she is better off. My boy, I think you had better return to your bed. You can do nothing for your mother now." "I would rather stay here," said Frank, sadly.
At the fire of the Federals, Alfred received four wounds; and sunk without a word to the ground. The enemy shortly after coming up found him insensible, and conveyed his inanimate body to the hospital. He was dangerously wounded, and the physicians declared there was but little hope of his recovery.
But his attention was quickly called from the beauties of inanimate nature, to objects more interesting; for he observed two persons, whom he instantly recollected to be the same that he had formerly pursued over the plains. They were seated on the margin of the lake, under the shade of some high trees at the foot of the rocks, and seemed partaking of a repast which was spread upon the grass.
He shook himself away from them and stared. "She was alive!" he cried aloud. "My phantom lived. It was I who was the phantom. And she alive!" His face whitened, his eyes remained inanimate and gleaming with terror. Then the figure of Mallare fell forward and lay curved in the snow. From the Journal of Mallare dated January. "I am the one who contemplates. I am the Knowing One.
The paroxysm did not last long, and in that fact most poignantly did Dinah realize the waning strength. Dumbly she stood and watched Biddy lay the inanimate figure back upon the pillows. Isabel had sunk into a state of exhaustion that was almost torpor. "She'll sleep now, dear lamb," said Biddy, and tenderly covered her over as though she had been a child.
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