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This ascent and prevalence of tropical species is due to the humidity and equability of the climate in this temperate zone, and is, perhaps, the direct consequence of these conditions.
Also, health and strength are conducive to equability of temper, and hence the domestic popularity of the man of brawn above the one of brain, who is not infrequently exacting and crossly egotistical in his family relations where the other would be lenient and go-easy. The silence of my guest and myself was presently broken by Dawn turning about under the counterpane.
Dale, from Philip drunken to Philip sober! from Riccabocca intoxicated with the assurance of your excellent lady, that he is about to be 'the happiest of men, to Riccabocca accustomed to his happiness, and carrying it off with the seasoned equability of one grown familiar with stimulants, in a word, appeal from Riccabocca the wooer to Riccabocca the spouse.
It has proved a more paying concern, at any rate, than the exhilarating occupation known as 'waiting for the boom." "I am very glad to hear that. And your friends have you all returned safe and sound?" Laurence replied that they had. But for all his outward equability, his impatience was amounting to torment. Even while he talked his ears were strained to catch the sound of a light step without.
A Frenchman may be an unkind husband, a severe parent, or an arrogant master, yet never contract his features, or asperate his voice, and for this reason is, in the national sense, "un homme bien doux." His heart may become corrupt, his principles immoral, and his disposition ferocious yet he shall still retain his equability of tone and complacent phraseology, and be "un homme bien aimable."
This gravel formation will be separately described at the end of the chapter. My object in giving the following measurements of the plains, as taken by the Officers of the Survey, is, as will hereafter be seen, to show the remarkable equability of the recent elevatory movements. Baseline is Level of sea. 2. Scale is 1/20 of inch to 100 feet vertical. 3. Height is shown in feet thus: An.
He was not one of those writers whom experience improves, and who, observing their own faults, become gradually correct. His poem on the "Last Day," his first great performance, has an equability and propriety, which he afterwards either never endeavoured or never attained.
Our people nowadays are so bred up to bustle and ostentation, that good nature, moderation, equability, constancy, and such like quiet and obscure qualities, are no more thought on or regarded.
There is in most of his compositions a calmness and equability, deliberate and cautious, sometimes with little that delights, but seldom with anything that offends. Of this kind seem to be his poems to Dryden, to Somers, and to the King. His ode on St. Cecilia has been imitated by Pope, and has something in it of Dryden's vigour.
He accepted poor players and knew how to make the best of them. His delightful equability of temper made many persons say, "I do admire the Chevalier de Valois!" His conversation, his manners, seemed bland, like his person. He endeavored to shock neither man nor woman.
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