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Then He comes. And when He comes the Reason does not receive Him, but that certain small part, little more than a point in the soul receives Him. Apart from the joy of it, what is the true value of ecstasy to him to whom it is granted? It raises him above Faith into Certitude.
If there be any thing in the usual course of human affairs which exhibits the immediate interposition of the Deity, it is in the progress of the fine arts, in which it would appear he often raises up those great characters, the spirit of whose imaginations have an interminable influence on posterity, and who are themselves separated and elevated among the generality of mankind, by the name of men of genius.
When I see him again he brushes past me to speak to the one who, owing him so much, of course will be grateful. With eyes for her alone he wears my colors in his face, and she raises the same blood-red signal. I was looking forward to the pleasure of giving him a welcome that he might value on his return, and he has not even spoken to me.
Basseterre, the capital, is a neat town, with a handsome public walk in the middle of it, well shaded by a row of fine tamarind trees on each side. Behind the town La Souffriere raises its high romantic summit, and on a clear day you may see the volcanic smoke which issues from it. Nearly midway betwixt Guadaloupe and Dominica you escry the Saintes.
While speaking he nods to the ground by his horse's head, indicating the disturbed tract; then, adding as he raises his hand, and points outward "And on that!" The "that" he refers to is a white list leading away westward as far as they can see evidently the trail taken by those they are in pursuit of.
"Hamilton takes another look an' then raises the ante a hundred dollars. This yere is table stakes; this game was; an' the stakes is five hundred. "'Which I plays this, says Hamilton, as he comes up with the hundred raise, 'the same as I would for myse'f, which the same means plenteous an' free as a king. "Thar's three of us who stays, one of the same bein' me.
The extreme minuteness of the work in some of the Babylonian seals and gems raises a suspicion that they must have been engraved by the help of a powerful magnifying-glass. A lens has been found in Assyria; and there is much reason to believe that the convenience was at least as well known in the lower country. Glass was certainly in use, and was cut into such shapes as were required.
The proposal to bring man and woman together everywhere into extremely intimate relationships raises very grave questions.
The whole is an absolutely closed continuity of causes, a causal but blind machinery, in regard to which we cannot ask, What is meant to be produced by this? but only, What causes have produced what exists? This opposition goes deep and raises difficulties.
Third, for the power it gives us to help and cheer others. Fourth, for the great and pure thought it brings before us and raises in us. All these things, are they true, you ask? If the little child had asked that of the master he would have said: "These things shalt thou find real because they make thee brave.
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