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There is no padding, and one is carried along with a rush from marvel to marvel and venture to venture through vast areas of undreamed civilizations, magnificent cities, and a people whose existence has been entirely unsuspected by denizens of the known world, and yet which is shown to be more than a mere conjecture as the story unfolds.
In the second, the study of the religions and the philosophies of the world, we have the field of work for the Cognition aspect of consciousness, that which gathers together the fruit of knowledge; it is the Knower gathering the food by which he unfolds his powers.
There is fear lest, in occupying the mind in the study of the details, and trying to pierce the mystery it partly unfolds, we should forget our own individual share in it. Better to burn in on our hearts the thought, 'I shall be there, than to lose the solemn impression in efforts to unravel the difficulties of the passage.
But I wish to bring before your notice the wonderful way in which our Lord, in this great dissertation concerning Himself as the Bread of Life, gradually unfolds the depths of His meaning and of His offer.
Sometimes you see a wide plain with its far flashing stream and homes here and there, or clusters of wooded heights with now and then a single pointed summit rising above and behind the rest. The roads are made up of innumerable loops and curves, every twist and turn of which unfolds a picture worthy of an Innes or a Rembrandt. The morning of our journey was as fair as a July morning could be.
So a free people governs itself. So a free people discerns its weakness and unfolds its strength. So a true aristocracy will yet develop a worthy democracy. From such living, far-seeing patriotism we augur the best results. Mistakes will doubtless be made; wisdom will not die with this generation; but a beginning is the sure presage of the end.
As the minute survey in the forest of the single leaf, which, for years, may not have attracted the eye, unfolds the fine veins, the fanciful outline, the clear, green, and transparent texture, and the delicate shadowings of innumerable hues won from the skies and the sunshine so, day by day, surveying the single object, they had become familiar with attractions in one another which the passing world would never have supposed either of them to possess.
The creole cane and the cane of Otaheite* are planted in the month of April, the first at four, the second at five feet distance. It flowers in the month of October, if the plant be sufficiently vigorous; but the top is cut off before the panicle unfolds.
She did not know how to begin nor what to say. I sought to give her confidence, and by one or two questions assisted her in opening the conversation she seemed both to wish for and to fear." She unfolds to him much that is exquisitely reproduced in Genevieve. "Madame ," said I to her. She blushed yet more. "I have no husband, Monsieur. I am an unmarried woman." "Ah!
He made a just use of that space which the mercy of the English Law allows to persons who are to suffer death for their crimes to make their peace with their Creator. The manacled rogue is seen in the foreground, his head bowed in despair, as the witness by his side unfolds his damning evidence.
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