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Her father, though he believed in the mutable nature of woman, yet could scarcely think that his daughter Dora was of this nature. He could scarcely conceive that her passion for Harry Ormond that passion which had, but a short time before, certainly affected her spirits, and put him in fear for her health could have been conquered by a coxcomb, who cared very little whether he conquered or not.
Some plants give about one-third scintillans and two-thirds lamarckiana, while the progeny of individuals of another strain show exactly the reverse proportion. Two points deserve to be noticed. First the progeny of the scintillans appears to be mutable in a large degree, exceeding even the lamarckiana.
It follows them in their state of mind and in the transformation of their interests, but it does not allow itself to be deceived by fallacious and mutable appearances. Against Historical Materialism and Class-Struggle.
New ideas come beating into surf and surge against those which former reasoners had considered as fixed banks and breakwaters; and the new ideas are so mutable, so fickle, that those which were considered novel ten years ago are deemed obsolete to-day, and the new ones of to-day will in their turn be obsolete to-morrow.
In almost every chapter of the Bible, words are used in a sense now nearly or quite obsolete, and sometimes in a sense totally opposite to their present meaning. Nothing is more mutable than language. Words, like bodies, are continually throwing off particles and absorbing others.
Ever variable and mutable as woman, Elizabeth was perplexing and baffling to her counsellors, at this epoch, beyond all divination. The "sparing humour" was increasing fearfully, and she thought it would be easier for her to slip out of the whole expensive enterprise, provided Leicester were merely her lieutenant-general, and not stadholder for the Provinces.
"To thee, and with better reason, do I return the wish," replied the Sub-Prior; "it is such an arm as thine that should defend the bulwarks of the Church, and it is now directing the battering-ram against them, and rendering practicable the breach through which all that is greedy, and all that is base, and all that is mutable and hot-headed in this innovating age, already hope to advance to destruction and to spoil.
"Still the contemplative eye Discerns under mutable sand drifts Stable foundations of stone, Marble and natural rock." "And you are inclined to complain of this oracle?" "Is it so pleasant to have to wade through dust? We have enough of that intolerable nuisance here in Egypt or am I to be delighted at the prospect of hurting my feet on hard stones?" "And what do the interpreters say?"
Oh, how differently shall we fare in our heavenly home! For the objects of our love there are not mutable, as in this world. He who is the very source of our exceeding happiness, is the eternal, immutable God. When He shall have united us to himself, and made us "partakers of the Divine Nature," he never will change in our regard, tire of us, despise us, and cast us away from him, as creatures do.
There was a strange comfort in this conviction, as though it represented the single reality to which she could cling amid the mutable deceptions of life. "Thar wouldn't be any sense in it if 'twarn't for that," she would sometimes say to herself, as one who draws strength from a secret source of refreshment.
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