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The extent and vivacity of his intellect were prodigious, and rendered him incapable of applying himself to one study at a time. So much intelligence and of such a kind, joined to such vivacity, sensibility, and passion, rendered his education difficult.
His own mind was made up. For his views about suicide, however much he spoke of them with levity, were perfectly serious. If he lost Gwen, he would be virtually non-existent already. The end would have come, and the thing left to put an end to would no longer be a Life. It would only be a sensibility to pain, with an ample supply of it.
Crips did not address the lady as an unblushing mendicant, he spoke as a man of some refinement and keen sensibility, whose bitter complaint was literally dragged from him by adverse circumstances. The lady was touched her eye moistened. "That is really very sad," she said. "Come right in, my poor man. You must tell your story to my James. James will know how to help you."
I produced examples from her own acquaintance, and represented their situation in terms which sensibly affected both herself and Lady C . I painted a lady full of affection, of tenderness, and sensibility, separated from her husband, for a series of time, by the cruelty of the war her uncertainty respecting his health; the pain and anxiety which must naturally arise from it.
"Oh," cried he, at each spot he saw, "oh, oh, the wretches!" M. Courtois was much moved to find so much sensibility in a detective. The latter, as he continued to ascend, went on: "The wretches! They don't often leave traces like this everywhere or at least they wipe them out."
The freedom of the will, indeed, no more implies an indifference of the sensibility than the power of a bird to fly implies the existence of a vacuum. Section V. The scheme of necessity is recommended by false analogies. It is insisted that there is no difficulty in conceiving of a caused action or volition; but this position is illustrated by false and deceptive analogies.
Horace Mann's house is still standing, opposite a school- house on the road from the station, where a by-way meets it at an acute angle. The freight-trains and their anthracite smoke must have had a disturbing influence on Hawthorne's sensibility.
But a third fact stands just as boldly forth the thin, unhealthy-looking physique and nervous sensibility of the American people; and the impression of this is deepened by comparing us with our original ancestors, the English, confessedly the finest physical race in the world.
We may thence infer, that the great poets in the subsequent age must have done violence to their own liberality and discernment, when, in compliment to Augustus, whose sensibility would have been wounded by the praises of Cicero, and even by the mention of his name, they have so industriously avoided the subject, as not to afford the most distant intimation that this immortal orator and philosopher had ever existed.
No wonder that she inspired a genius into you, and first created the artist who afterwards created her image." Drowne looked at him with a visage that bore the traces of tears, but from which the light of imagination and sensibility, so recently illuminating it, had departed. He was again the mechanical carver that he had been known to be all his lifetime. "I hardly understand what you mean, Mr.
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