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"You could make money there and learn things the Wisdom of the East, for instance." Mildred, recovering her equanimity, smiled at him. "No, never! The Wisdom of the West engrosses us; but you'll come and tell us about the other, won't you?" Maxwell Davison settled in Oxford for six months, in order to see his great book on Persian Literature through the press.
Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the energies and engrosses the attention of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
And by their authority, he explains, proves, and disposes of whatever engages his attention and engrosses his powers as a reasonable and reasoning creature. For what, when thus employed and when most successful, is the utmost he can accomplish? Why, to make the conclusions which he would establish and commend, clear in the light of reason; in other words, to evince that they are reasonable.
"I think theirs will be the radiant habitations, and the swift obedience of the seraphim. They will know and love and work, as do the angels." "In middle life," said Elizabeth, "heaven seems farther away from us." "True, my sister. At midday the workman may think of the evening, but it is his work that chiefly I engrosses him.
Thus it appears that private interest is so far from being likely to be promoted in proportion to the degree in which self-love engrosses us, and prevails over all other principles, that the contracted affection may be so prevalent as to disappoint itself, and even contradict its own and private good.
Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, ultimately, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness.
This third degree is but the second carried to excess. Little by little it engrosses the greater part of life; it may even entirely supplant the earlier self. The growing working of the imagination is similar to this. Thanks to two causes acting in unison, temperament and habit, the imaginative and internal life tends to become systematized and to encroach more and more on the real, external life.
"It is a matter of utter indifference to me how the others word it," and Philip leaned up comfortably against a rock as he looked at Patty. "The only thing that engrosses my mind, is whether I myself can word it persuasively enough to make you say yes. Do you think I can?" "You never can tell till you try," said Patty, in a flippant tone. "Then I'll try.
She was not thinking of the babies; she was not worrying about home; she was not longing for anything, or even indulging in a dream. That vacuous content which engrosses the body after long indisposition, held her imperatively. Suddenly she was aroused from this happy condition of nothingness by the spectacle of an enormous bull-dog approaching her with threatening teeth.
Then, a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energy of the Nation, little that is new could be presented.
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