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He indicated that they were to remain where they were; then he went to the shed-like building, closed the door and locked it, placing the key in his pocket. "It would seem," observed Ashton-Kirk, "that we are not to be trusted implicitly." "Also," replied Pendleton, "that there is something of value in the shed." Returning, Locke led the way to a door upon the other side of the house.
It led to the conviction that instinct and natural affection are divine inspirations, that the beliefs and practices to which they constrain us are the perfection of wisdom and goodness, that to set them aside is inevitable ruin, that whenever reason says one thing, and our religious and moral affections and instincts say another, we ought to turn a deaf ear to reason, and follow implicitly the dictates of our moral and religious faculties.
I have a strong affection for him; and, perhaps, a year or two ago, I should, in the ignorance in which I was dogmatically brought up, have thought it my duty to submit implicitly to parental authority, and to receive a husband from the hands of a father, without consulting either my own heart or my own judgment.
Before we reached the third bridge we were overtaken by Levi Coffin with another young man, whom he had instructed implicitly to regard all the lessons I might give him. I gave them all a charge to say nothing of going farther than Toledo, Ohio, and talk of no farther back than Cincinnati.
With regard to one or two damnatory charges, he implicitly believed them to be true, but he failed to secure any substantial proof whatever. He presented himself once before the Committee, only to find, as he had expected, that he must not look to obtain a fair or patient hearing.
This Brunetiere implicitly admits when he says that most of Balzac's novels are, so to speak, inquiries, collections of documents. The year 1838 closed questioningly for the hermit at Les Jardies.
Of his moral qualities, the most prominent was his piety. He was more than anything else a religious man. From his trust in God, he ever derived support and consolation in the darkest hours. Implicitly relying upon Almighty wisdom and goodness, he looked danger in the face with a constant smile, and endured incessant labors and trials with a serenity which seemed more than human.
If man created the fetish which in process of differentiation generated all kinds of myths, he, like animals, was directly and implicitly conscious of the living subject, and in it of an active cause.
In spite of a certain flabbiness in its outward expression, deep down in Laura the supreme faith of childhood still dwelt intact: she believed, with her whole heart, in the existence of an all-knowing God, and just as implicitly in His perfect power to succour His human children at will.
It consumed all his money, all the supplies which he extracted from his mother by continual promises of victory, in which she implicitly believed, so great was her faith in him.
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