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All my life I've wanted somebody I could look up to, somebody great and big and splendid. Most men are so small." "What d'you mean by splendid?" Hewet asked. "People are nothing more." Evelyn was puzzled. "We don't care for people because of their qualities," he tried to explain. "It's just them that we care for," he struck a match "just that," he said, pointing to the flames.
Such nevertheless was the remarkable group of blacks on whom had fallen Vesey's choice. And did they not present an assemblage of high and striking qualities?
She had, indeed, inherited a shadow of her father's failing; but in all things else, unless my partial eyes deceived me, she derived her qualities from me, and might be called my moral image. On my side, whatever else I may have done amiss, as a mother I was above reproach. Here, then, was surely every promise for the future; here, at last, was a relation in which I might hope to taste repose.
Mysie was one of a class: few in number they are indeed, but on that account more to be prized. Her taste and fine manipulations were but counterparts of qualities of the heart an organ to which the pale face, with its delicate lines and the clear liquid eyes, was a suitable index.
He thought that he was not arrogant about it, because he did full justice to the good qualities of those other people; he congratulated himself upon the democratic instincts which enabled him to do this; and neither he nor his wife supposed that they were selfish persons.
Spencer's figure, seen through the mist that shrouds early western history, is striking and picturesque in itself; yet its chief interest lies in the fact that he was but a type of many other men whose lives were no less lonely and dangerous. He had no qualities to make him a leader when settlements sprang up around him.
"Because I think you are somewhat unjust to him, Bessie; he has excellent qualities." "Well, aunt, if you like him, will you be so kind as to entertain him when he comes?" said Bessie impatiently. "Hey," said Tom, looking up, "Bess is getting mad! What fun!" "There's Rose Saxon!" said Bessie; "how do you do, Rose? You are the first and shall have the heartiest welcome."
There can be no space nor any part of space without gravitational potentials; for these confer upon space its metrical qualities, without which it cannot be imagined at all. The existence of the gravitational field is inseparably bound up with the existence of space.
He held back Congress when reconciliation was in the air; he committed the whole country to the support of New England, and gave to the war its indispensable condition of success, the leadership of Washington; he was called by Jefferson "the Colossus of debate in carrying the Declaration of Independence" and cutting loose from England; he was wise and strong and indefatigable in governmental construction, as well as in maintaining the armies in the field; he accomplished vast labors affecting both the domestic and foreign relations of the country, and, despite his unpleasant personal qualities of conceit and irritability, his praise was in every mouth.
The character of Molly's mental state was quite, quite different from the qualities that come of grief or sickness. Then had followed the very anxious nursing, during which all other thoughts had been swallowed up in immediate anxiety and responsibility.
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