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To the merchant and the man of business it is all-important. Before its irresistible energy the most formidable obstacles become as cobweb barriers in its path. Difficulties, the terror of which causes the timid and pampered sons of luxury to shrink back with dismay, provoke from the man a lofty determination only a smile.
That evil day will come, sooner or later; but I had rather face it in one of these wonderful hotels than in a boarding-house, which I might be asked to leave. As to taking a house of our own, I shrink from any such permanent arrangement. We are noticed a good deal. Sholto is, of course, handsome and distinguished; and people take a fancy to me just as they used to long ago.
The more we can approach the Deity to ourselves the more we can invest him with human attributes the more we can connect him with the affairs and sympathies of earth, the greater will be his influence upon our conduct the more fondly we shall contemplate his attributes, the more timidly we shall shrink from his vigilance, the more anxiously we shall strive for his approval.
Yet it was firmly impressed on her mind that she must not shrink from any sacrifice to prevent this most crying injustice. She tortured herself with all kinds of plans and projects, which were chiefly of the most impracticable and impossible kind rejected as soon as formed. Every glimmer of hope grew fainter and fainter, and she well-nigh despaired.
It is only in thought, or in obedience to some creed or philosophy, that we do it. In life, in action, we unconsciously recognize ourselves as a part of Nature. Our success and well-being depend upon the closeness and spontaneousness of the relation. If all this is interpreted to mean that life, that the mind and soul of man, are of material origin, science does not shrink from the inference.
He had fashioned even the shoes that covered his feet and the ring of gold with its cunningly engraved signet which he displayed on his left hand. Himself he had wrought the circle of gold, had closed the bezel around the gem and engraved the stone. I have not yet told you all the tale of his achievements. But I will not shrink from enumerating all the marvels that he thought it no shame to show.
If you feel that Christianity in its various forms, rejects no want, no desire, that it is permitted to every mind to worship according to its own light, but in the spirit of truth, the Eternal Being, then those meek hearts, that shrink affrighted from this parade and song, from this splendour of the temple and from the artificial culture of religious mystery, will not be excluded from the community.
It was insulting even to Philip's intelligence to insinuate that the Prince would shrink before danger, or die of fear. Had Orange ever been inclined to bombast, he might have answered the churchman's calumny, as Caesar the soothsayer's warning: " -Danger knows full well That Caesar is more dangerous than he "
Though we know that the bodily dissolution can have no effect upon the imperishable essence of an immortal being, yet we shrink back from it, as if the sentence, "Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return," had been spoken of the spirit, as if the worm were to "feed sweetly" upon the soul, and it were to be buried up in the dark house of the grave.
'I'm sure we meant no harm, if we did say it in a joke, pouted one of the attendants. 'Like me! you must come and see us. I have something to say to you .... You must! Philammon misinterpreted the intense interest of her tone, and if he did not shrink back, gave some involuntary gesture of reluctance. Pelagia laughed aloud. 'Don't be vain enough to suspect, foolish boy, but come!
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