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What, after all, is respectability but the brand of the formalist upon standardization? With the distaste and effort which Ban always felt in mentioning her husband's name to Io, he asked her one day about any possible danger from Eyre. "No," she said with assurance. "I owe Del nothing. That is understood between us."
I 'married in haste and repented at leisure; after my union with your father, I found him to be a cold formalist and canting religionist, continually boring me with his lectures on the sins and folly of 'fashionable dissipation, as he termed the elegant amusements suitable to our wealth and rank and discoursing upon the pleasures of the domestic circle, and such humbugs.
They must, in a moment of time, take up an entirely different attitude to God and holiness, to Christ and his salvation. "They were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins." The formalist confessed that the whited sepulchre of his religious observances had concealed a mass of putrefaction.
I also saw Formalist and Hypocrisie come tumbling over the wall, to go, as they pretended, to Sion; but they were quickly lost; even as I myself did tell them, but they would not believe.
I don't know if the doctor be a formalist, but it is quite impossible I should appear at table as I ought." He begged me to be under no anxiety. "We have been long expecting you," said he. "All is ready." Such I found to be the truth.
The ethical value of such a declaration could not escape the attention even of a Byzantine formalist, and it is interesting to observe that in our oldest Greek manuscript of the Hippocratic text, dating from the tenth century, this magnificent passage is headed by the words 'from the oath of Hippocrates according as it may be sworn by a Christian. Rome Urbinas 64, fo. 116.
It is so in every creed. But the saint, abbot, or father among these hermits was essentially the man who was not a common-place person; who was more than an ascetic, and more than a formalist; who could pierce beyond the letter to the spirit, and see, beyond all forms of doctrine or modes of life, that virtue was the one thing needful.
Thus, Titian is not soft enough for the sensualist, Correggio suits him better; Titian is not defined enough for the formalist, Leonardo suits him better; Titian is not pure enough for the religionist, Raphael suits him better; Titian is not polite enough for the man of the world, Vandyke suits him better; Titian is not forcible enough for the lovers of the picturesque, Rembrandt suits him better.
"Should he not return to-day, ought I not, before leaving this to-morrow, to write to him, since he is legally his sister's guardian? It is, you and she tell me, a mere form, but one that should not be dispensed with any longer." "That may be so. Winston is rigorous in requiring what is due to his position is, in some respects, a fearful formalist.
Ah ha! now surely, with hard work before him, this scholar, theorist, conventional formalist, ritualist, and what else you may like to call him, will be put to shame, shown up empty and foolish before the hard-headed men of action of his age.
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