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"Yes," said Barker "yes; Portobello Road. I saw it afterwards; but, my God, what a place it was! Buck, have you ever stood and let a six foot of man lash and lash at your head with six feet of pole with six pounds of steel at the end? Because, when you have had that experience, as Walt Whitman says, 'you re-examine philosophies and religions." "I have no doubt," said Buck.
They were engaged also to go on a pacific embassy to the hostile Indians of the West, and assure them of the friendly disposition of the United States toward them; that they want nothing which belongs to the hostile Indians; that they appointed commissioners to treat with them for their lands, and give them a large quantity of goods; that a number of chiefs signed the deeds, and from the reports of the commissioners, it was supposed the lands had been fairly obtained; that under this supposition large tracts had been sold, and hence difficult to restore again; but as the United States desire only what is just, they will attentively hear the complaints of the western Indians; they will re-examine the treaties, and inquire into the manner in which they were conducted; and if the complaints of the western Indians, appear to be well founded, the United States will make them ample compensation for their lands.
When she had left for England, she had practically made up her mind to accept Lord Wisbeach, and had only deferred actual acceptance of him because in her cool way she wished to re-examine the position at her leisure. Second thoughts had brought no revulsion of feeling. She had not wavered until her arrival in New York.
I mean were you called in to attend to his youthful ailments?" "Yes, until he went to school." "And was he a normal and healthy boy?" "Quite." "Did you see him when he returned home recently?" asked Mr. Middleheath, rising to re-examine. "Yes." "You are aware he was discharged from the Army suffering from shell-shock?" "Yes." "And did you notice a marked change in him?" "Very marked indeed.
The following morning I always waked earlier than usual so that I might re-examine them; they cast a spell of enchantment over that winter morning, the first one of a new year. Once there was, among my presents, a large illustrated book treating of the antediluvian world. Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.
What I purposed alluding to, was the improvement that I have for ever lost. One of the leading passions of my mind has been an anxious desire not to be deceived. This has led me to view the topics of my reflection on all sides; and to examine and re-examine without end, the questions that interest me.
The man of science does well sometimes to imitate this procedure; and, forgetting for the time the importance of his own small winnings, to re-examine the common stock in trade, so that he may make sure how far the stock of bullion in the cellar on the faith of whose existence so much paper has been circulating is really the solid gold of truth.
Men seldom reject an opportunity to talk of themselves; and I am not unwilling to re-examine the past, to re-connect it with the present, and to gather from a consideration of each what hopes and expectations are still left to me for the future.
Furious at the slight, the professor resolved to set to work independently on his own account, and declaring that there were inaccuracies in the previous geodesic operations, he determined to re-examine the results of the last triangulation which had united Formentera to the Spanish coast by a triangle, one of the sides of which measured over a hundred miles, the very operation which had already been so successfully accomplished by Arago and Biot.
I resolved to resume my once favourite philosophical pursuits, re-examine and complete the Work to which I had once committed my hopes of renown; and, simultaneously, a restless desire seized me to communciate, though but at brief intervals, with other minds than those immediately within my reach, minds fresh from the old world, and reviving the memories of its vivid civilization.
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