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This spirit is always accompanied by ignorance of one's own faults, which makes him who indulges in it ludicrous. So our Lord would seem to intend by the figure of the mote and the beam. It takes a great deal of close peering to see a mote; but the censorious man sees only the mote, and sees it out of scale.
For this he makes use of the Eclipses suffered by the little planets which revolve around Jupiter, and which often enter his shadow: and see what is his reasoning.
Sylvia rose and hesitated a moment, then she stepped close to the girl and pulled the fair head to her lean shoulder. "Don't; you mustn't take on so," she said. "Don't try to remember anything if it makes you feel like that. You'll be down sick." "I am trying not to remember, and always the awful dread lest I shall comes over me," sobbed the girl. "Mr.
"What makes people come in!" she cried, crossly. "Oh! it is you, mother," she interrupted herself, with a preoccupied look. "Yes, child; it is your mother " Something in her tone turned those words into an outpouring of the heart, the cry of some deep inward feeling, only to be described by the word "holy."
Now, solid matter itself makes no difference to the force of gravitation, which acts through it as though it were not there. The sun is pulling the earth toward itself, and it pulls the atoms on the far side of the earth just as strongly as it would if there were nothing lying between it and them.
He makes no pretence to be doing anything but pleading the cause of his party, and placing it in the best possible light.
That the poet and every artist knows; and his art is not merely an extension of the process of perception, but an attempt to express his own value for that excellence which he has perceived as beauty. It is an answer to that beauty, a worship of it, and is itself beautiful because it makes no effort to compete with it.
Smell never does. Oh, mighty aura! that, in marching by the nostrils, can reach and move the soul; how wise the church that makes this power its handmaid, and through its incense overwhelms all alien thought when the worshipper, wandering, doubting, comes again to see if it be true, that here doubt dies.
"'Then, said they, 'if no man is attacking you, you must be ill; when Jove makes people ill, there is no help for it, and you had better pray to your father Neptune.
And should you say that the perception, having arisen without an object, produces the silver and thereupon makes it its object, we truly do not know what to say to such excellent reasoning! Let it then be said that the cause is some defect in the sense-organ. This, too, is inadmissible; for a defect abiding in the percipient person cannot produce an objective effect.
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