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Art spoils her votaries for the service of society, and society, as a rule, takes its revenge by despising or patronizing the artist whilst competing for the possession of his works. Brooke Dalton and his sister were lodged in an old palace not far from Mrs. Hartley's smaller and newer residence; and frequent visits between the two couples soon put them all on terms of friendly intimacy.
This preparation of abstracts, subject to my father's censorship, was of great service to me, by compelling precision in conceiving and expressing psychological doctrines, whether accepted as truths or only regarded as the opinion of others. After Helvetius, my father made me study what he deemed the really master-production in the philosophy of mind, Hartley's Observations on Man.
Hartley's Sepoys were now sorely pressed, but still maintained their position, and were reinforced by five companies of Europeans and two more companies of Sepoys. With this support, Hartley beat off every attack.
The distracted man drew a poniard from his bosom, and Hartley's strength and resolution might not perhaps have saved his life, had not Winter mastered the General's right hand, and contrived to disarm him. "I am your prisoner, then," he said; "use me civilly and let me see my wife and children." "You shall see them to-morrow," said Hartley; "follow us instantly, and without the least resistance."
Some things that were said she rejected, while other things lingered and occasioned suggestions which were not favorable to her husband. While she had no wish to be present at Mrs. Talbot's on account of Major Willard, she was annoyed by the thought that Hartley's fixing on the next evening for her to go out with him was to prevent her attendance at the weekly conversazione.
He fixed his dark eyes on the young man. Doctor Hartley's uneasiness was becoming evident. "Certainly I am sure for the present." The last words seemed to present themselves to him as a sort of life-buoy. He grasped them, clung to them. "For the present yes. No doctor, of course, not the cleverest, can possibly say that no complications ever will arise in regard to a case.
When it is oh! when it is maybe, then, at last, there will be something coming to the University, our University, to benefit your inventions, Daddy." "My child! when that third nut is cracked, 'twill only benefit a 'nut'." The man chuckled drily now. "In other words, the remainder of Friend Hartley's fortune, all that his sister, Mrs.
But the chain somehow snapped between them, and the issue has been that nobody now cares about either any more than about Hartley's, Darwin's, or Priestley's contemporaneous doings in England. The judgment goes to the root of the matter. The method of Reid inevitably led to this result.
The fact is, my Lord, if our men were not so devotedly attached to my son and myself as they are, Hartley's unjustifiable interference would leave the corps a mere skeleton. As it is, he has taken eighteen of our very best men from us; by best, I allude only to youth and physical energy, for I need scarcely say, that all the staunch and loyal fellows remain with us. I am sorry to add that Mr.
Desborough took courage at the license conveyed by this pleasantry, and pursued, winking familiarly to Captain Molineux, while he, at the same time, nodded to Middlemore, "Mighty little time, I calculate, had he to think of aggravatin', when I gripped him down at Hartley's pint, that day.
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