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The examination I made of the shore did not assist this theory, but all the same I clung to it with that diminishing portion of my intelligence which I called my "reason."
For this reason especially the females in the patriarchal family are not equal to the males; the sister cannot rank with the brother. It is true that the Japanese daughter, like the Greek daughter, could remain attached to her own family even after marriage, providing that a husband were adopted for her, that is to say, taken into the family as a son.
"That's right," said Mr. Jarley of Wye, with a decided emphasis. "That's the kind of talk I like to hear," exclaimed Mr. Terry. "And nobody's had the gumption to fight 'em," said Mr. Widgeon. "It looks," said Austen, "as though it must come to a fight in the end. I do not think they will listen to reason. I mean," he added, with a flash of humour, "that they will listen to it, but not act upon it.
These two things, really very different in essence, are only related by spontaneity of thought which gives them birth. But whereas intuition, a sensation altogether moral, concisely stated, is composed of mental speculations, impulses always resolve themselves into acts and resolutions to act. Intuition is a sort of obscure revelation, which reason controls only after its formation.
What does it matter where they move their troops, or land stores?" "That is just the thing. We are at peace with them, sure enough; but that is no reason why we should be always at peace.
In such cases, one ought to call in the Commissary of Police!" "But ... my dear ... I really could not ... there was no reason ... It would have been very difficult." She shrugged her shoulders disdainfully. "There, you will never be anything but a poor, wretched fellow, a man without a will, without any firmness or energy.
During Godolphin's Ministry, Defoe's cue had been to reason with the nation against too impatient a longing for peace. Let us have peace by all means, had been his text, but not till honourable terms have been secured, and mean-time the war is going on as prosperously as any but madmen can desire.
For this reason we think Pericles and men of that stamp to be Practically Wise, because they can see what is good for themselves and for men in general, and we also think those to be such who are skilled in domestic management or civil government.
And so the 'inheritance is incorruptible and undefiled, and fadeth not away'; not merely by reason of the communicated will of God operating upon creatures whom He preserves untarnished by corruption, and ungnawed by decay, but because He Himself is the 'inheritance, and on Him time hath no power.
Be not so impatient, my dear sensible one, we are coming to that now. One great reason of your back-ache is that stoop of yours.
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