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He further complains that I speak disrespectfully of the 's in Grandfather's Chair. He writes more in sorrow than in anger, though there is quite enough of the latter quality to give piquancy to his epistle.
The test for the quality of army meat is the smell. If it doesn't smell bad, it is good.... "Then the raw material is handed over to a cook. He is a common soldier who has been made into a cook by a simple ceremony. He is told, 'You are a cook. He does his best to be.
Thence you may go on to make such other inquiries as will satisfy you that I have told you the truth respecting my quality, and that I will keep my word with regard to every offer I have made you. And now farewell, for I will not return to this house until they have left it."
At the short, private service which preceded the departure of the party for the train, he came and took his place beside her in a quiet way which had in it the quality of a right. Although he did not touch or speak to her the sense of his near presence was to her like a strong supporting arm.
Whatsoever the mind perceives IN ITSELF, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call IDEA; and the power to produce any idea in our mind, I call QUALITY of the subject wherein that power is.
"Undoubtedly," says Say; "but the land also is an implement whose service must be paid for, then...." I admit that the land is an implement; but who made it? Did the proprietor? Did he by the efficacious virtue of the right of property, by this MORAL QUALITY infused into the soil endow it with vigor and fertility?
Year by year, I have seen the crop grow less and less; year by year I have seen our income decreasing. We are living now on less than half of what we had when you took charge of the vineyard. Last year the grapes were so poor that I was ashamed to use them for wine. And to think," she flashed at him, bitterly, "that the name of Marsh used to stand for quality! What does it mean now?
'Is it that notion which makes you so sad for your age? she asked, with almost maternal solicitude. 'I think astronomy is a bad study for you. It makes you feel human insignificance too plainly. 'Perhaps it does. However, he added more cheerfully, 'though I feel the study to be one almost tragic in its quality, I hope to be the new Copernicus.
But you say that, however we advance, we continue impatient and dissatisfied: can you really suppose that, because man in every state is discontented with his lot, there is no difference in the degree and quality of his discontent, no distinction between pining for bread and longing for the moon?
The light in me has been darkness. The intellectual quality of my brain which has helped me to attain my present false position among you . . ."
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