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Then, pulling himself up, as he felt his temper was getting the better of him, he added, more blandly, 'Pray do not think I object to you as permanent neighbours. If I had any ladies in my household, they would have called on you before this. I came to you this morning because there is a locked cupboard of my brother's, which, as his nearest relative, I presume I have a right to open.
In looking up the genealogy of the Spicer family, Miss Patty discovered that a distant relative in Charleston had just died, leaving a daughter behind him an orphan who was a year older than Mary. Correspondence finally led Miss Patty to make the journey, and when she returned she brought with her a dark-eyed girl who might have been the very spirit of youthful romance.
When he once feels we are necessary to his comfort, and that some reliable person, like the curate, for example, were to whisper to him that you are the son of Claudet de Buxieres, he would have scruples, and at last, half on his own account, and half for the sake of religion, he would begin to treat you like a relative." "No;" said Claudet, firmly, "these tricky ways do not suit me.
Of course, a few must be insisted on, or there would be no means of relative comparison, but these few, accurately learnt, are better than a number repeated glibly without any particular conception of their importance." In the teaching of geography Miss Mitchell also put her theories into action. As taught in many schools she thought it was a wearisome subject.
He examines and informs himself thoroughly of everything he sees or hears; and, more particularly, as it is relative to his own profession or destination.
Then they might be requested to reduce it to three pages, and perhaps, finally, to one page, eliminating each time what is of least importance. Such an exercise compels a very careful study of relative values. Holding and carrying a point. Having decided upon a definite problem for consideration, all grades of learners might be held responsible for detecting beginning wanderings of thought.
Then she looked up with what she tried to make a most friendly smile. "Now you know, Miss Doane, I never gossip, but I am a friend of yours and I think you ought to be told. The neighbors think it queer that you have this man live here, who is no relative of yours." "How's it queer?" "Well, it's unconventional, to say the least." "What do you mean by unconventional?"
"She thinks so much of Polly, perhaps they hope it'll help to bring her out of this sooner." "Don't you believe it!" Miss Castlevaine's head nodded out the words with emphasis. "Dr. Dudley's a good one to curry favor with." "Is Miss Sterling a relative of his?" asked Miss Mullaly. "No. Haven't you heard how they got acquainted? Quite a pretty little story." Mrs.
The wedding will have to be postponed. Will explain later." "It's the best I can do now," he muttered. "Helen will think it is all due to my cousin's illness." Then he returned to the hospital and found his relative in a state of wonderment at his absence, but refreshed from a good night's rest. Yankee Blank was nowhere to be seen.
The history of philosophy has no other system to show which to the same degree expresses and reflects the personality of the philosopher as Schopenhauer's. This personality, notwithstanding its limitations and its whims, was important enough to give interest to Schopenhauer's views, even apart from the relative truth which they contain.
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