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"In the long Arctic night, the Eskimo is blithe, and carolsome, far from the approach of the white man; while amid the glorious scenery and Eden-like climate of Central America, the native languages have a dozen words for pain and misery and sorrow, for one with any cheerful signification."

Her large dark eyes flashed powerlessly; her shape appeared to have narrowed; her tongue, too, was a feeble penitent. 'You ask a creature to recall her acts of insanity. 'There must be some signification in your words, I suppose. 'I will tell you as clearly as I can. You have the right to be my judge. I was in extremity that is, I saw no means... I could not write: it was ruin coming.

Their common signification, like that of the words nec super eum ibimus, describes physical action alone.

Compared with the portrait of Jane Mattock in her fiery aureole of hair on the walls of the breakfast-room, it marks that fatal period of degeneracy for us, which our critics of Literature as well as Art are one voice in denouncing, when the complex overwhelms the simple, and excess of signification is attempted, instead of letting plain nature speak her uncorrupted tongue to the contemplative mind.

For example, in the state of sleep without eyes it sees; without an ear it hears; without a tongue it speaks; without feet it runs. Briefly, these actions are beyond the means of instruments and organs. How often it happens that it sees a dream in the world of sleep, and its signification becomes apparent two years afterward in corresponding events.

The very figures of which the meaning seems most obvious those matchless studies of animal or vegetable life with which the Western curio-buyer is most familiar have usually some ethical signification which is not perceived at all.

These prophetic glimpses, by which the clairvoyance of the unconscious reveals itself to consciousness, are commonly obscure because in the brain they must assume a form perceptible by the senses, whereas the unconscious idea can have nothing to do with any form of sensual impression: it is for this reason that humours, dreams, and the hallucinations of sick persons can so easily have a false signification attached to them.

III. The last exhortation that comes out of this comparative study of these phrases is Believe into Christ. That is a very pregnant and remarkable expression, and it can scarcely, as you see, be rendered into our language without a certain harshness; but still it is worth while to face the harshness for the sake of getting the double signification that is involved in it.

I do not understand the signification of those terms; but I wish to submit myself to the Church as all good Christians should do. What more could be required of her than this entire submission to the Church? She had made that answer to the doctors and clergy at Poitiers, and it had entirely satisfied those men.

Free trade, in its true signification, or in the only signification which is not a fallacy, can only mean a commerce that is totally unfettered by duties, restrictions, prohibitions, and charges of all sorts. Except among savages, the world never yet saw such a state of things, and probably never will.