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I had had a vague feeling that the surroundings of my life were unreal; here was something that was real. "And he himself! We women do not love that which is lofty merely because it is lofty; no, there must be a certain weakness too something that appeals to our help; we must feel a mission. And you cannot conceive how powerful and yet powerless he was." "How powerless, mother?"
The city of Caen is selected for the location of the university because of its favorable position, character, and surroundings. It is
But on the purely animal plane of existence these powers could be of but little service, and we can expect to find them developed only very slightly and under peculiar surroundings. And in this connection it is interesting to notice the great results of man's training and education in the dog.
It was a dreary habitation, that London lodging, after the gardens and woods of Arden, the luxurious surroundings and innumerable prettinesses which Mr.
Imagination absolutely refuses, however, to see the Spanish woman of rank in such surroundings.
"The next day I lunched at the Luganovitchs'. After lunch they drove out to their summer villa, in order to make arrangements there for the winter, and I went with them. I returned with them to the town, and at midnight drank tea with them in quiet domestic surroundings, while the fire glowed, and the young mother kept going to see if her baby girl was asleep.
Erelong he will graduate from these ignominious surroundings, and we shall see quite another sort of creature an agile, pretty atom, one of which I have indicated in flight, its upper wings being often brilliantly colored, and re-enforced by a pair of hind feet which emulate those of the flea in their powers of jumping, which agility has won the insect the popular name of "froghopper."
A nightmare is an excellent means of inducing a desire for dreamless sleep. But normal, natural humanity shuns complete rest. Hence the notorious failure mental and physical of complete holidays. We must attack something, and if there is no work to attack, we attack the inanimate stupidity of our surroundings.
Here the lecturer "clears the ground" or "paves the way" for the main question. If the lecture is biographical and deals with the life and work of some great man, the exordium naturally tells about his parents, birthplace and early surroundings, etc.
I cannot suppose that the way in which cities are laid out with narrow streets really results in an increase of value. The surroundings of our cities are undeveloped estates, which we have only to agree amongst ourselves how to lay out, and everybody would benefit by such joint action. There is an excellent illustration in regard to that in Mr. Horsfall's work in connection with Germany.
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