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This power of attention, of keeping an object or a subject steadily in view until it is absorbed or mastered, is held by some to be the most distinctive element in genius. Most people have not this habit of concentration of the mind, but allow it to wander aimlessly on, flitting from subject to subject, without mastering any; but then, most people are not geniuses.
The old delineators were before the age of investigation. Since that impulse became masterful, some historians have been completely absorbed in the effort to make contribution to this investigation. Others, with a sense of the impossibility of mastering the results of investigation in all fields, have lost the zeal for the writing of church history on a great scale.
They've got to have an open space to strike the small furry creatures which they live on. Moccasins affect mud look there!" Both horses shyed; in front Shiela's mount was behaving badly, but even while she was mastering him she tried at the same time to extract her shotgun from the leather boot.
Mastering his thoughts with an effort, he raised his hat in his usual quietly courteous way. "This is a great surprise, Miss Vancourt!" he said, lightly, though his voice trembled a little "And a happy one! The villagers will be delighted to see you back again! When did you return?"
He had succeeded in mastering the technicality of charcoal drawing, and had made an arrangement with the Autotype Company for the reproduction of some drawings in this medium. "Marmorne." Paris International Exhibition. "Modern Frenchmen." Candidature to the Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Arts. The Bishop of Antun. The "Life of Turner." The important literary works undertaken by Mr.
There my time was occupied, for as great a part of each day as I could give to such a task without extreme fatigue, in mastering the language of the country. This was a much simpler task than might have been supposed.
Another figure flits in and out of this salon, whose fine qualities of soul shine so brightly in this morally stifling atmosphere that one forgets her errors in a mastering impulse of love and pity. There is no more pathetic history in this arid and heartless age than that of Mlle.
No one can compare the faces and manners of two boys the one made happy by mastering interesting subjects, and the other made miserable by disgust with his studies, by consequent inability, by cold looks, by threats, by punishment without seeing that the disposition of the one is being benefited and that of the other injured.
"The sixty days are almost gone, and papa has not got the money! What will he do? oh! what will he do?" Being with him constantly in the store, Olive saw, what he struggled to hide from those at home, the utter despair that was mastering a patient hope; and she knew that as the days went so swiftly by, that to him, the end was growing more certain.
Harry Glen was apparently not deficient in either pride or will. The close observer, however, seemed to see as his mastering sentiment a certain starile selfishness, not uncommon among the youths of his training and position in the slow-living, hum-drum country towns of Ohio.
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