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She says that the love of adventure, the restlessness so characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon, makes him, under certain conditions, the greatest of explorers and colonizers, and that this same energy, under other conditions, helps to brutalize him. Dissatisfied with the dull round of duties that poverty enforces upon him, he seeks artificial excitement in the saloon and the gambling den.
Apart from the great truth which it enforces, that everything has evolved somehow, and apart from the inevitable stimulating effect of any such universal picture, I regard its teachings as almost a museum of blundering reasoning. Let me try to indicate briefly my grounds for such an opinion. I pass by the section on the Unknowable, because this part of Mr.
This imagined salving of his wounded vanity served only to inflame him the more against Medenham. He was still afire with resentment, since no Frenchman can understand the rude Saxon usage that enforces submission under a threat of physical violence.
In one minute Groombridge Eighteen-thirty could go from here to Hong-Kong." "Then damn Groombridge Eighteen-thirty!" It was uttered in the bated tone that night enforces: but it came with a groan. The old gentleman faced round in amazement. "He means, sir," explained the woman, who had grown to understand Adam passing well, "my man means that it's all too big for us.
These are the themes that he embodies in his plots, and these the morals that he enforces when he speaks through the chorus in his own person. And the result is an art-product more strange to the modern mind in its union of poetry with prose, of aesthetic with didactic significance, than even that marvellous creation, the Greek tragedy. Section 8. Summary.
There are little drops on the backs of Mr. Ellicott's hands. Oliver wants to help Nancy take away the dishes and bring in the fruit they have started to make a game out of it already when Mrs. Ellicott's voice enforces order. "No, Oliver. No, please. Please sit still. It is so seldom we have a guest that Nancy and I are apt to forget our manners "
Great qualities, or uncommon accomplishments, he did not find necessary; for he had already seen that merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness; and as he thought no folly greater than that of losing a dinner for any other gratification, he often congratulated himself, that he had none of that disgusting excellence which impresses awe upon greatness, and condemns its possessors to the society of those who are wise or brave, and indigent as themselves.
The fate of Gaspar Peucer enforces the truth of the old adage that "a shoemaker ought to stick to his last," and shows that those men court adversity who meddle with matters outside their profession. Peucer was a doctor of medicine of the academy of Wuertemberg, and wrote several works on astronomy, medicine, and history.
It proclaims a system of morals, more pure and more exalted far than ever was contemplated by the wisest of men; it exhibits an example of the perfect state of a moral being, in the character of the Messiah; and it enforces the imitation of this example as indispensable in every one who professes to be his disciple.
Resuming with the audience, he remarked very impressively: "As I was saying, fellow citizens, I have come from my mountain home, ten thousand feet above the level of the sea, to, etc." A story which illustrates and enforces the argument helps a political speech, and it is often the only part of the speech which is remembered.
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