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Mary's subdued and led him captive. The impression produced on him was expressed in the formula that primitive Christianity might have been corrupted into Popery, but that Protestantism never could. For a moment he hung in the wind. He might have been one of the earliest of Broad Churchmen. He might have been a Utilitarian and Necessitarian follower of Mr. J.S. Mill.
"What words?" The boy repeated the formula in perfect Greek. "Did you pour the water as you said the words?" "Yes." The Patriarch's face was troubled. "It is a dangerous game to play at," he said. "What would you say if I told you that you had really baptized them?" The boy looked at him in amazement. "But I am not a bishop," he said. The Patriarch could not help smiling.
They opened with the same formula, beginning with the fiction that she "took her pen in her hand," and continuing, "these few lines leaves me tollerbul, and hoping to find you the same." My friend, the amanuensis, took great pleasure in reporting Mammy verbatim and phonetically.
It was difficult to remember that she had begun as a woman; she was now a somewhat anæmic formula making for righteousness.
An apparent concord often covers the widest divergence under the veil of a common formula, because each man has his private mode of interpreting general phrases in terms of concrete fact. This, of course, implies the further difference arising from the passions which, however illogically, go so far to determine opinions.
Even when he said, whispering with truth, 'I love you, I love you, it was not the real truth. It was something beyond love, such a gladness of having surpassed oneself, of having transcended the old existence. How could he say "I" when he was something new and unknown, not himself at all? This I, this old formula of the age, was a dead letter.
The formula is simple and complete, but like many another good recipe, a competent cook might find it hard to follow when she is short of butter and must shamefully skimp on the eggs. Now the man whose history I have recounted represents the most priceless qualities of this formula.
She had yet to learn that the old Mosaic formula, "The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children," was graven more indelibly upon the heart of the race than upon the tables of Sinai. But would her lover still love her, if he knew all? She had read some of the novels in the bookcase in her mother's hall, and others at boarding-school.
The counting was interrupted with directions and threats. The Weasel drew a long breath of relief when he was finally dismissed, and was allowed to slip out into the night, where he turned toward Syracuse. Ledermann still worked over the unconscious man. The Wolf called at headquarters and was pleasantly received, with the formula that was to overthrow the world lying in his pocket.
is compressed into a sentence: Reflect the character of Christ, and you will become like Christ. You will be changed, in spite of yourself and unknown to yourself, into the same image from character to character. . All men are reflectors that is on which this formula is based. One of the aptest descriptions of a human being is that he is a mirror.
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