United States or Malta ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The appointment of Cardinal Beaton to the see of St Andrews, in succession to his uncle, gave James a servant of high ecclesiastical rank, great subtlety, and indomitable resolution, but remote from chastity of life and from clemency to heretics.
This young lady was Zoe Vizard, daughter of Harrington's father by a Greek mother, who died when she was twelve years of age. Her mixed origin showed itself curiously. In her figure and face she was all Greek, even to her hand, which was molded divinely, but as long and large as befitted her long, grand, antique arm; but her mind was Northern not a grain of Greek subtlety in it.
And that philosophy is by no means dead and buried, as many vainly suppose. On the contrary, numbers of men of no mean learning and accomplishment, and sometimes of rare power and subtlety of thought, hold by it as the best theory of things which has yet been stated.
“To the schoolmen the vulgar languages are principally indebted for what precision and analytic subtlety they possess.”—SIR W. HAMILTON, Discussions in Philosophy. Of The Necessity Of Commencing With An Analysis Of Language. The practice, indeed, is recommended by considerations far too obvious to require a formal justification.
Nine long years did we try every kind of stratagem, but the hand of heaven was against us; during all this time there was no one who could compare with your father in subtlety if indeed you are his son I can hardly believe my eyes and you talk just like him too no one would say that people of such different ages could speak so much alike.
So far as failure is concerned, never had any man failed so egregiously as I did with Felini, a slippery criminal who possessed all the bravery of a Frenchman and all the subtlety of an Italian. Three times he was in my hands twice in Paris, once in Marseilles and each time he escaped me; yet I was not dismissed.
There is subtlety in pronouncing it a commonplace to call Mlle. Climene a queen." Some laughed, M. Binet amongst them, with good-humoured mockery. "You think he has the wit to mean it thus? Bah! His subtleties are all unconscious." The conversation becoming general, Andre-Louis soon learnt what yet there was to learn of this strolling band.
And as these two poems contain the elements of all subsequent thought and progress in the Greek nation, so in the typical character of Odysseus are concentrated all the qualities which distinguish the individual Greek his insatiable curiosity, which left no field of thought unexplored his spirit of daring enterprise, which carried the banner of civilisation to the borders of India and the Straits of Gibraltar and his subtlety and craft, which in a later age made him a byword to the grave moralists of Rome.
She had her desire of him, she touched, she received the maximum of unspeakable communication in touch, dark, subtle, positively silent, a magnificent gift and give again, a perfect acceptance and yielding, a mystery, the reality of that which can never be known, vital, sensual reality that can never be transmuted into mind content, but remains outside, living body of darkness and silence and subtlety, the mystic body of reality.
Yes!" she exclaimed, "of course I know. Oh, yes! yes!" The rest was a passionate embrace. And then they parted. He went out brooding over the subtlety and the tragedy of life. The sharp October stars saddened him more. It was a wonderful world but bitter to endure at times. Still it could be endured and there was happiness and peace in store for him probably.
Word Of The Day