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When a man has plenty of faith he is ready to believe anything. However fantastic it may be, however childish, however infantile, he accepts it with gaping wonder. His imagination is not necessarily strong, but it is easily excited. Macaulay held that savages have stronger imaginations than civilised men, and that as the reason developes the imagination decays.
It was a splendidly equipped compartment; and when I found myself between the sheets of my berth, with plenty of pillows under me, I felt as if I had definitely got a stage nearer to England. Some one behind me called my name, and, looking round, I saw my old friend M W , whose party I had nearly run into the night before in that never-to-be-forgotten communication trench, Woman Street.
Some kind of convention would then be called, and the dangerous situation of the country stated in the strongest terms. It would be observed, that while they lived in the midst of plenty, it was of little consequence who laboured the least, or who possessed the least, as every man was perfectly willing and ready to supply the wants of his neighbour.
If it was, as I believe the beginning of the year, it was certainly a most auspicious one and one of the most hopeful of my life. And now if the others were only here, was the burden of our thought, and a serious awakening from the dream of beauty and rich plenty spread out before us.
They did so on his word, and took so many fish, and of such several sorts, that they could hardly draw their nets. They continued their fishing for some days after with the same success; and what appears more wonderful, the sea of Cangoxima, which was scarce of fish, from that time forward had great plenty.
All the while that she was taking her coffee, Angelique talked of the hangings. "Mother, we must look at them at once, to see if they are in good order." "We have plenty of time before us, my dear," replied Hubertine, in her quiet way. "We shall not put them up until afternoon."
There are plenty of things to inspire, but the man to be inspired is the thing most needed." "So that, Mr. Ridgeley," said Ida, "we may not in our time hope for the American novel, the great American epic, or the great American drama?" "Well, I don't know that these will ever be.
There's a military post three hundred miles from here. 'Well, upon my word, said I, 'perhaps you had better go if you have any friends amongst the savages near by. 'Plenty, he said. 'They are simple people and I want nothing, you know. He stood biting his lip, then: 'I don't want any harm to happen to these whites here, but of course I was thinking of Mr.
If I let myself fall I might break my arms and legs, for I did not know the distance between the window and the floor of the room. To this chain of reasoning uttered in the friendliest possible tone, the brute replied thus: "You let me down, and when I have got to the bottom you will have plenty of time to think how you are going to follow me."
I am like a comet, she is like the sun steady, steady, round and round, with plenty of sleep and the comfortable darkness. Sometimes madame goes hard; so does the sun in summer-shines, shines, shines like a furnace.
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