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In contrast to her expression, that on the face of the dead man was stem and, as it were, fraught with importance where thick grey eyebrows lay parted over a large nose, and the latter curved downwards towards a moustache which divided introspective, partially closed eyes from a mouth that was set half-open.
To rule conscience, a man must himself be unprejudiced and well informed. He must strive, not to keep up an unhealthy excitement which shall make conscience introspective and morbid, but to preserve a sane moral outlook, to encourage freedom of thought and judgment, and to develop a normal conscience which reacts promptly against wrong. Conscience measures our inner recoil from evil.
I cannot help being horribly introspective, Maurice would agree to whatever I said, so there is no use in talking to him I rush to this journal, it cannot look at me with fond watery eyes of reproach and disapproval as Burton would if I let myself go to him. May 16th The times have been too anxious to write, it is over two months since I opened this book.
As a result his outlook broadened, he became less introspective and more alive to the concerns of those about him; and he gained a new respect for his father's and grandfather's employees. One had much less time to be depressed and discouraged when one had so many things to think of. Sometimes Ted brought in seeds and showed them; and afterward a slender plant that had sprouted; and then Mr.
But the girl's great eyes were fixed and introspective. When Sanda was sure that Lella Mabrouka and Taous, her spy, were both intent on the figure posturing in the cleared space in the centre of the room, she cautiously unfolded the ball of paper. Holding it on her lap, half hidden by the frame of her hands, she saw a fine, clear black writing, a writing new to her.
There are, I assure you, to my positive knowledge forty-three and in one island in the South Seas, forty-four different methods of doing murder, any one of which would be entirely beyond the scope of the introspective agencies at the ordinary disposal of society. 'But let us bend our minds to the details of this matter. Let us ask first, who is this Ul-Jabal?
Those placid matrimonial ambitions with which he had left England had been all swept away; and as he followed her she on pony-back, he on foot along the mountain trails, watching the lightness of her small figure against the splendid background of peak and pine, he became a troubled, introspective person; concentrating upon himself and his disagreeable plight the attention he had hitherto given to a delightful outer world, sown with the caches of antiquity, in order to amuse him.
It is, indeed, quite the common experience that the passive medium requires "conditions" for the proper exercise of the faculty and where these are lacking no vision can be obtained. The positive type of seer exercises an introspective vision, searching inwardly towards the soul-world whence revelation proceeds.
Violet was not an introspective person, or she might have discovered here that the most stable part of her self-respect was her EXIGENCE with Captain Drake. She found out quickly enough, however, that she did not mean to discard it.
We shall then consider the two great directions of interest, introspection and extrospection, and those whose lives are characterized by one or the other direction. The introspective personality is no more of a unit than any other type. Intelligence, energy and a host of other matters play their part in the sum total of the character here as elsewhere.
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