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No wonder, then, that it is extended to other similarly interesting objects which are not too unlike these to the dog, the cat, and the canary, the doll, the toy, and the picture-book that these are endowed with wills and affections, and with capacities for being "good" and "naughty."
You know we don't formally breakfast, Adam and I; we have tea in our rooms at least I have; but luncheon is early, and I saw my husband, this morning, by twelve; he was showing the child a picture-book. Maggie had been there with them, had left them settled together. Then she had gone out taking the carriage for something he had been intending but that she offered to do instead."
True, my longings now may have to the longings I shall one day entertain only the relation of your little boy's craving for an alphabetic picture-book to the course in philosophy he will take when he is twenty-five; but so long as the picture-book is the thing he can appreciate you give it to him. Is not this common sense?
Living, as he needs must do, under the category of time, Michelangelo was unable to execute his stupendous picture-book of human destiny in one sustained manner. Years passed over him of thwarted endeavour and distracted energies years of quarrying and sculpturing, of engineering and obeying the vagaries of successive Popes.
They were given a picture-book and were placed at Brun's large writing-table, while Ellen seated herself by the window with her knitting and talked to the old man. From her seat she could follow the work out on the field, and had to give him a full description of how far they had got with each plot.
"Did she know anything of her Saviour?" "I believe you," replied the other earnestly, "yes. There were a good young lady she ain't living now as seed her playing about by the roadside one day, and gave her this book." Ruby drew out from his breast-pocket a large faded leathern case, and from its inmost depths brought out a small picture-book full of coloured Scripture prints.
"It's a picture-book of the heart of man," he concluded, and no sooner had he shaped this thought in his mind than he heard it uttered for him on the opposite side of the pillar in a voice made soft by indulgent tenderness, "Just a great picture-book." He leaned forward at the sound far enough to have a glimpse of the Girl from Home, and smiled at her. "So you've found that out, have you?"
Darwin employed on Orchids and climbing plants, how much nearer would you be to the deepest question of all Do these things exist, or only appear? Are they solid realities, or a mere phantasmagoria, orderly indeed, and law- ruled, but a phantasmagoria still; a picture-book by which God speaks to rational essences, created in His own likeness?
It had all the simplicity and depth of a child’s emotion. It tugged at one’s heart-strings in the same direct way. But what could one do? How could one soothe her? It was impossible to pat her on the head, take her on the knee, give her a chocolate or show her a picture-book. I found myself absolutely without resource. Completely at a loss. “Yes, Ortega.
But it was not at all like home to poor little Sharley; and as she thought of her mother and her sisters she sobbed and cried in her little bed, and buried her head under the pink quilt, and refused to be comforted. A lady came to see her, and brought her a picture-book; but still she hid her face, and cried, "Oh, do let me go home!"
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