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This was a thing easier said than done, especially as, when aimlessly glancing at a weekly paper in the club next day, I came across a paragraph which gushed in the conventionally nauseous manner over the forthcoming marriage of the beautiful young heiress, Miss Karine Cunningham, and Mr. Carson Wildred, the "well-known millionaire and popular man of Society."
One of the most practically difficult matters which arise from the code of manners and the conventions of life, is that we cannot properly justify a human being, because that justification would involve the admission of things which may not conventionally be admitted.
In reality it was not true that Anna was insensible to Nature. She did not like what are conventionally called beautiful landscapes: she could see no difference between them and other landscapes. But she loved the country whatever it might be like just earth and air. Only she had no more idea of it than of her other strong feelings: and those who lived with her had even less idea of it.
He had the conventionally aristocratic features, thin lips and steely blue eyes. He was apparently a little annoyed. "Anything wrong, dear?" Lady Maltenby asked. Her husband took up his position on the hearthrug. "I am annoyed with Stenson," he declared. The Countess shook her head. "It's too bad of you, Henry," she expostulated. "You've been trying to talk politics with him.
If all propositions respecting the signification of words were as simple and unimportant as those which served us for examples when examining Hobbes’ theory of predication, viz. those of which the subject and predicate are proper names, and which assert only that those names have, or that they have not, been conventionally assigned to the same individual; there would be little to attract to such propositions the attention of philosophers.
Natures such as hers are as little to be judged by that which is conventionally the highest standard as by that which is the lowest. The tendencies which we agree to call good and bad became in her merely directions of a native force which was at all times in revolt against circumstance. Characters thus moulded may go far in achievement, but can never pass beyond the bounds of suffering.
The eighteenth century in England has been regarded as almost exclusively a classical period; yet William Blake, a type of so much which breaks through what are conventionally thought the influences of that century, is still a noticeable phenomenon in it, and the reaction in favour of naturalism in poetry begins in that century, early.
Whether conventionally equal or not, whether voters or not, that necessity for dependence will still remain under our system of private property and free independent competition.
"You will be very dull, I fear," she wrote, kindly "But not so dull as we should be without you." This was a gracious phrase which meant as much or as little as most such phrases of a conventionally amiable character. Dulness, however, is a condition of brain and body of which I am seldom conscious, so that the suggestion of its possibility did not disturb my outlook.
And then one looks round and sees it instead as a frail organisation of the lame, the halt, and the blind, a tepid organisation of the satisfied, the bourgeois, the conventionally genteel, a helpless organisation of the ignorant, the half-witted, the stupid; an organisation full to the brim of cant, humbug, timid orthodoxy, unreality, self-content, and all kinds of Potterism and one doesn't see how it can overcome anything whatever.
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