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Again, if the writers are first-class men, their birth is the most purely American characteristic they possess. Their cast of thought and culture denotes that they belong to other times and lands as well as to this. They would have been at home among the literati of Queen Anne's day, for their fellowship has been with such in spirit, if not in the flesh.
He had broken for good and all with the Duke of Wuerttemberg and there was nothing to be hoped for in that quarter. At the same time, and the fact is characteristic of his large-mindedness, he resolved not to air his personal grievance.
The legislative blundering which tied the President's hands and made the Government impotent to protect American citizens from desperadoes of the type of the "cowboys" and Jesse James, is characteristic of Congress during this period.
She received her share willingly and gratefully enough, but her smile and kiss were so evidently given to order, that they only testified to the thorough literality of her statement. Leenoo, Eiralé, and Elfé followed her example with characteristic exactness. Equally characteristic was the conduct of the others.
As characteristic of some of our imprudent countrymen, I insert the following anecdote. She was filled with Norwegians, and were detained in England, while Norway adhered to a king of their own choice.
Whether or not Christianity ought to be a changing movement in a changing world, it certainly has been that and is so still, and the change can be seen going on now in the very atmosphere in which it lives and moves and has its being. For example, consider the attitude of resignation to the will of God, which was characteristic of medieval Christianity.
He's a tutor at King's, and though he's a dear good fellow, and a splendid long-stop, I couldn't myself conscientiously say I regard guilelessness as quite his most marked characteristic. "What are you doing?" I asked, as Lucy sat down with a resolutely determined air at her writing-table in the corner. "Doing!" my wife replied, with some asperity her tone.
It is indeed characteristic of a well-ordered mind to rejoice in what is good and to be grieved by the opposite. If then, pain of mind fall to the lot of a wise man as it must of necessity unless we imagine his mind divested of its humanity, why should we take friendship wholly out of life, lest we experience some little trouble on account of it?
The entire absence of cornice, capital, base or diminution of shafts, so characteristic of other columnar architecture, and the peculiar and original disposition of each group in rows like palm logs, suggest the type from which they sprang." With his usual penetration, Loftus divines and explains the origin of these forms.
"In that case the 'food department' is secure," said Dick; "already I see Ben Fallows making rapid strides toward convalescence." It was characteristic of Barney that within a few days he had all three departments in full operation. With great tact he succeeded in making Mrs.
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