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The major borrowed three little pack horses with rope-bridles, and thus mounted and followed by the clanking column, they rode on in triumph. It was probably more of a true festival than most men experience even in the longest life time. The major with his Greek instinct of drama was a splendid personification of poetic quality; in fact he was himself almost a lyric.
"Just the same then! I should say, 'My esteemed Boythorn' to make you the personification of our imaginary friend 'my esteemed Boythorn, you object to the mighty potentate? Very good. So do I. I take it that my business in the social system is to be agreeable; I take it that everybody's business in the social system is to be agreeable. It's a system of harmony, in short.
He stole a sidelong glance at her she was the personification of daintiness from the black patent shoes showing beneath the flouncing of her skirt, to the white hat with its clusters of roses.
As soon as I had finished, one of the young ladies left the room and, returning in a few moments with her composition book, laid it before the teacher who presided that day, showing her the same composition I had just read. I was called up at once to explain, but was so amazed and confounded that I could not speak, and I looked the personification of guilt.
At all events it crept down his arm and leg, waddled slowly over the floor of the shed with bent back and wrinkled brow, like a man of ninety, and took up its old position on the deck, the very personification of superannuated woe. The hermit patted its head gently, however, thus relieving its feelings, and probably introducing hope into its little heart before leaving.
'To be the personification of Italy in dreary London is more than an accomplishment; it it' 'It is a boon, said Dunckley, coming to the aid of his floundering loved one. 'Exactly, said Lady Durwent with a sigh of relief. 'Madame Lucia Carlotti Mr. Selwyn of New York. 'Buona sera, signora. 'Buona sera, signore.
It is not, however, necessary to believe literally in the devil, or in devils concerning whose existence many persons will prefer to remain agnostic in order to find in the figure of the devil, as he appears in Biblical and other literature, a convenient personification of certain forms of evil.
It is sometimes as toward one divine friend and God, sometimes toward the one beloved human being, sometimes the Christ, sometimes a universe of living and loving beings. These are distinctions of form rather than of substance, the expression by different minds of the same reality. To the modern mind, the distinct personification of deity is less natural than formerly.
The essential meaning of the personification in the text is in accordance, I think, with the general tenor of remark which I have just been making. For I understand it to mean, that everything is instructive, that even in the common ways of life the most important truths, and the profoundest moral and religious significance, are contained.
A very distant acquaintance with the mathematics of probability will show that this is a wholly untenable theory. We are generally answered by some purely verbal explanation, like the personification of "Nature" already alluded to.
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