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But although there is an implied compliment, to your power, if not to your personality, in the fact of a man's taking pains to make himself agreeable to you, it is certain that he may try to make himself so by means of which the upshot will be to make him intensely disagreeable. You know the fawning, sneaking manner which an occasional shopkeeper adopts.
Picture by picture, in each of the three styles he adopts Justi's and Stevenson's classification he follows the painter, dealing less with the man than his work. Not that biographical data are missing on the contrary, there are many pages of anecdotes as well as the usual facts but Beruete is principally concerned with the chronology and attribution of the pictures.
Four articles were voted upon, with only two dissenting voices: The nation adopts as a form of government a constitutional monarchy, hereditary under a Catholic prince. The sovereign will take the title of Emperor of Mexico. The imperial crown of Mexico is offered to his Royal Highness Prince Ferdinand Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, for himself and his descendants.
He knows what pleasure it is to me to decipher them and make out their history almost, alas! the only pleasure left to me, except you, my darling." "Professor Moyes adopts your opinion always, dad. He knows, as every other antiquary knows, that you are the greatest living authority on the subject which you have made a lifetime study that of the bronze seals of the Middle Ages."
The course of a nation's political, social and intellectual history is determined very largely by the methods which it adopts for its own expansion at the inevitable moment when its original limits are found to be too narrow to satisfy even the most modest needs of a growing population.
Some years ago the illustrious Baron Humboldt was invited to play the part of lion at the house of a nobleman. A select circle of fashionables appeared, and among the company a man very plainly dressed and not noticeable in appearance. The lady of the house adopts the old but very sensible fashion of introducing people to each other, which helps to prevent a good deal of stiffness.
The Central Society seem to wish to pull me down, as also does the other society to whom reference is made is the same page of which I complain; and I distinctly charge both societies with doing me great injustice; the society complains of my plans without knowing them, the other adopts them without acknowledgment, and both have sprung up fungus-like, after the Infant System had been in existence many years, and I had served three apprenticeships to extend and promote it, without receiving subscriptions or any public aid whatever.
Don Julián, a rich merchant about forty years of age, is ideally married to Teodora, a beautiful woman in her early twenties, who adores him. He is a generous and kindly man; and upon the death of an old and honored friend, to whose assistance in the past he owes his present fortune, he adopts into his household the son of this friend, Ernesto.
The particular methods by which the teacher is to interest his pupils in his various plans for their improvement can not be fully described here. In fact, it does not depend so much on the methods he adopts as upon the view which he himself takes of these plans, and the tone and manner in which he speaks of them to his pupils.
Thus creatures may exist through us, even though mind may be out of order. Both mental purposes and dreams having failed to gratify him. The reading sarvam in the second line is incorrect, though Nilakantha adopts it. The different portions of the fire are indicated as the different attributes.
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