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Some one has said, "Man never knows how anthropomorphic he is." This means, as you know, that we look at things from the point of view of ourselves. We see things as men, as anthropoi. This has been erected in certain quarters into a good deal of a bugbear in the way of thinking.
They put on their Sabbath face concerning the declaration of war, and told with approval how the Royal hand had trembled in committing itself to the form of signature to which its action is limited. If there was money to be paid, there was a bugbear to be slain for it; and a bugbear is as obnoxious to the repose of commercial communities as rivals are to kings.
It was a thrilling thought his very dream, too; and the lot of shillings, and the shawl ay, and the inquest, and the rumours how that Mrs. Quarles had come to her end unfairly, and no hoards found and and the honey-pots missing. Ha! at any rate he'd have a search to-morrow. No bugbear now should hinder him; money's money; he'd ask no questions how it got there.
When the population had taken off their nightcaps, they woke to find the awful bugbear removed which had so long been appalling them. The Waartgelders were numbered with the terrors of the past, and not a cat had mewed at their disappearance.
His principles and his conduct were in opposition; he was honest, and yet seemed to betray; whilst he struggled with regret from duty to the monarchy, his heart was in the republic. Protector of the throne, he was at the same time its bugbear. One life can only be devoted to one cause. Monarchy and republicanism had the same esteem, the same wrongs in his mind, and he served for and against both.
In truth he was so afraid of assumptions and "anticipations" and prejudices his great bugbear was so much the "intellectus sibi permissus" the mind given liberty to guess and imagine and theorise, instead of, as it ought, absolutely and servilely submitting itself to the control of facts that he missed the true place of the rational and formative element in his account of Induction.
Rameses laughed scornfully, but Ta-user and Seti spoke simultaneously: "Siptah speaks truly." "Yea, Menes," the heir scoffed; "he hath already become a bugbear to the infants. Hear them confess it?" Siptah buried his clenched hand in a cushion on the floor near him. "O thou paternal Prince," he said, "repeat us a prayer of exorcism as a father should, and rid us of our fears."
In its wider bed it could spread itself out comfortably; and on the western reaches of its sea-green mirror the travelers saw the reflection of Orsova on its island for them the fourth, and greatest, bugbear. The day had already sunk into twilight when the "St. Barbara" arrived at Orsova. "More wind to-morrow than even to-day," grumbled the steersman, looking at the red sky.
"Capital is a bugbear," said the son, speaking on this matter quite ex cathedrâ, as no doubt he was entitled to do by his extensive reading at a German university "capital is a bugbear. The capital that is really wanting is thought, mind, combination, knowledge." "But, Lucius " "Yes, I know what you are going to say, mother.
For a short period it was so; but then the old bugbear of Russian advance over the dreary wastes of Central Asia again supervened, and exercised its malign influence on our policy.
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