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You should have come earlier," he replied with an air of relief, as he turned to resume the all-absorbing topic with the proprietor. Amarilly's interest in the window display dispelled any disappointment she might have had in regard to Bud's head covering. "Now," said the clerk didactically, "my idea is this. Have a wedding a church wedding.
Hamilton-Wells began didactically, moving his long white hands in a way that always suggested lace ruffles. "They will teach you to reason." "Then they'll teach me to reason too," said Angelica, setting herself down on the arm of a chair as if she had made up her mind, and intended to let them know it. All her movements were quick, all Diavolo's deliberate.
I am never tired of saying that to put great personal qualities in a poem, or other literary work, not formulated or didactically stated, but in tone, manner, attitude, breadth of view, love, charity, good fellowship, etc., is the great triumph for our day. So put, they are a possession to the race forever; they grow and bear fruit perennially, like the grass and the trees.
He said all this sententiously and didactically, as one who enjoys speaking on historical or sociological subjects; but then a cloud seemed to descend upon him, and he relapsed into gloomy silence. After another mile they came to Vine-Pits Farm, the home of Mr. Bates the corn-merchant.
Before we move a step further, we'll purge them of such helpers as you and such false friends as Julian Orden." "You very foolish person," she repeated. "Stop, though. Why all this mystery? Why did you try to keep that letter from me?" "I conceived it to be for the benefit of our cause," he said didactically, "that the anonymity of `Paul Fiske' should be preserved." "Rubbish!" she scoffed.
In our rooms, as we say in the Guard, all men are men. Outside we are officers and men." "I begin to see," I stammered. "Matthews was telling me that sergeants handled half-companies and rose from the ranks and I don't see that there are any lieutenants and your companies appear to be two hundred and fifty strong. It's a shade confusing to the layman." Burgard leaned forward didactically.
Of course I am not a critic, and I dare say I shouldn't make a very good job of the reviews; but on the other hand, how could I get on in the same boat with Merezhkovsky, who definitely believes, didactically believes, while I lost my faith years ago and can only look with perplexity at any "intellectual" who does believe?
We are always too prone to teach history didactically, and to teach biographical history didactically is to miss the mark entirely. The aim here is not primarily instruction, but inspiration; not merely learning, but also appreciation.
Aside from its indubitable worth as a picture of English middle-class country life in an earlier nineteenth century than we know the easy-going days before electricity it has its highest claim to our regard as a reading in life, not conveyed by word of mouth didactically, but carried in scene and character.
But he does not dwell long or didactically on each of these problems. They arise naturally and inevitably, as a part of human life, in the course of his story of adventure and love. He does not pretend to solve the perplexing questions. The hero feels that he is "like a man floundering in a universe of soap-suds, up and down, east and west." "I can't stand it.
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