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Their condemnation was seldom preceded by the forms of trial, and their punishment was embittered by the refinements of cruelty: their eyes were pierced, their tongues were torn from the root, the hands and feet were amputated; some expired under the lash, others in the flames; others again were transfixed with arrows; and a simple speedy death was mercy which they could rarely obtain.
In fact, she could not help supposing that some littleness of nature had a part in all the refinements, reserves, and subtleties of feeling for which her friends and family were so distinguished.
There is, however, a fourth kind of motive which may be urged, and which is the peculiar characteristic of the intuitive school of moralists and the stumbling-block of its opponents. It is asserted that we are so constituted that the notion of duty furnishes in itself a natural motive of action of the highest order, and wholly distinct from all the refinements and modifications of self-interest.
The punishment of the victims of his tyranny was imbittered by the refinements of cruelty: their eyes were pierced, their tongues were torn from the root, their hands and feet were amputated: some expired under the lash, others in the flames, others again were transfixed with arrows: and a simple speedy death was mercy which they could rarely obtain."
The place is altogether in a flourishing condition, and so advanced in the refinements of life, that the news-paper, lately established in the town, sets forth the following articles for sale: 'Ladies' shoes from Paris, Ices, and Eau de Cologne." GRANDY. "It is a great cause for thankfulness, that religion is spreading her benign influence over these volcanic isles.
This tender intimacy of night the natural intimacy of husband and wife; this sense, which would not be denied, however sternly he might hold it in check, of her dear form beside him; the little refinements and self-revelations of a woman's room; his half-rights towards her, appealing at once to love, and to the memory of that solemn pledge by which he had won her what man who deserved the name but must be conscious, tempestuously conscious, of such thoughts and facts?
Our criticism has been oddly incurious in the matter, considering what the dominion of the novel has been for a hundred and fifty years. The refinements of the art of fiction have been accepted without question, or at most have been classified roughly and summarily as is proved by the singular poverty of our critical vocabulary, as soon as we pass beyond the simplest and plainest effects.
It is in the highest degree fantastic and luxuriant it is on the whole very lovely. As a triumph of the many-hued it prepares you for the interior, where the same parti- coloured splendour is endlessly at play a confident complication of harmonies and contrasts and of the minor structural refinements and braveries.
Inventions in dressing should resemble Addison's definition of fine writing, and consists of "refinements which are natural, without being obvious." He who esteems trifles for themselves, is a trifler he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher. Tantot, Monseigneur le Marquis a cheval Tantot, Monsieur du Mazin de bout!
Thrilled by keen excitement and half-consciously acting, she had told him that poverty did not daunt her, but when she came to think, it would be hard to go without the expensive refinements she enjoyed. With something of an effort, she banished her disturbing thoughts. She was going to marry Jim. Perhaps she could mold him a little.
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