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Instability the soul of matter. Peace the triumph of spirit. Refinement is true strength. Sounds well fitted to be symbols. Language has a structure independent of things. Words, remaining identical, serve to identify things that change. Language the dialectical garment of facts. Words are wise men's counters. Nominalism right in psychology and realism in logic.
I always made myself persona grata to those who could help me along, wore the best clothes I could buy, never associated with shabby people, and appeared as much as possible in the company of my financial betters. It was the easier for me to do this because my name was not Irish, German or Hebraic. I had a good appearance, manners and an agreeable gloss of culture and refinement.
Winters, too, though unpretending, were persons of refinement and intelligence. He was puzzled to understand how a young girl, reared in so much seclusion, should possess such grace and culture as did Edna. After tea, when she played and sang, his mystification increased, for the bird-like voice and delicate touch were superior to much that he heard among his city friends.
"As to dress, I think that so essential a thing in the mind of woman, that no man who cares about women ought to disdain critical study of it. In woman, refinement of character is never found in vulgarity of dress. I have only observed that truth since I came up from Bretagne."
It is another striking instance of that refinement of feeling and softness of tone which so generally distinguish the last book of the Iliad from the rest." Helen's Lamentation. For thee I mourn; and mourn myself in thee, The wretched source of all this misery. The fate I caused forever I bemoan; Sad Helen has no friend, now thou art gone! Through Troy's wide streets abandoned shall I roam!
And his felicity was so complete that the good genii, who ordered the stars at his birth, had not neglected by a refinement of benevolence strange in such primitive beings to provide him with a desire difficult to attain, and with an enemy hard to overcome.
They positively insist upon the very refinement of purity, as you look at them. Did you ever see a pond-lily? not the miserable draggled green-and-mud-colored buds which enterprising boys bring into the cars for sale; but the white water-lily, floating on the silent brooks, or far out in the safe depths of the mill-ponds.
Poor youth! he soon became the prey of every refinement upon dissipation and studied debauchery, till at length his sufferings made his life a burthen, and he died in the most excruciating agonies both of mind and body, in the arms of a disconsolate wife and a distracted father and thus, in a few short months, at the age of eighteen, was I left a widow to lament my having become a wife!
Where it was tucked over the small ears, and native refinement or the other thing shows very plainly in the ears, it lay full, and shaped into a soft curve. She was only plain, not ugly, after all; and they are very different things, there being a beauty of plainness in men and women, as there is in a rich fabric, sometimes.
As a show dog, his massive frame, powerful limbs, pure white coat, with its pale lemon markings and frecklings, and, above all, his solemn and majestic aspect, mark him out as a true aristocrat, with all the beauty of refinement which comes from a long line of cultured ancestors.
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