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'We seem to see a fitness in it, says the cogitative Rev. Doctor. 'And an Island England in those waters, will do wonders for Commerce, adds the former. 'We think of things more pregnant, concludes the latter, with a dry gleam of ecclesiastical knowingness. Funds, universally the most convincing of credentials, are placed at Dr.
The mysteries of human character have seldom been presented in a way more fitted to check the judgments of facile knowingness than in Girolamo Savonarola; but we can give him a reverence that needs no shutting of the eyes to fact, if we regard his life as a drama in which there were great inward modifications accompanying the outward changes.
I 'lows Seth would hate to worrit Rosie wi' things, but as I said we've got our dooty, an' it seems " "Dooty?" Ma chuckled. "Say, Rube, we'll write to the girl, you an' me. An' we don't need to ask no by-your-leave of nobody. Not even Seth." "Not even Seth." The two conspirators eyed one another slyly, smiled with a quaint knowingness, and resumed their supper in silence.
As it is, vulpine knowingness sits yet at its hopeless problem, "Given a world of Knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action;" how cumbrous a problem, you may see in Chancery Law-Courts, and some other places! Till at length, by Heaven's just anger, but also by Heaven's great grace, the matter begins to stagnate; and this problem is becoming to all men a palpably hopeless one.
How little there was on the surface of Scott of the literary keenness, subtlety, knowingness of later producers, and yet how far his contribution surpasses theirs in real human pathos and suggestiveness! The same might be said of Count Tolstoï, who is also, back of all, a great loving nature.
The truth is, mothers take their leisure time for what seems to them to be first in importance. It is easy to see what they consider essentials, and what, from them, children are learning to consider essentials. The "knowingness" of some of our children on subjects connected with dress is simply appalling.
He carries a whip beneath his arm, which adds wonderfully to the knowingness of his appearance, which is rather more that of a gentleman who keeps an inn on the Newmarket road, "purely for the love of travellers, and the money which they carry about them," than of a native of the rock.
The lawsuit was begun and prosecuted with all the hatred of a great lady treated with contempt, and with all the knowingness of an unscrupulous lawyer eager to serve, in point of fact, his patroness, and to demonstrate, in point of law, the thesis he had advanced.
A scuffle, a squeak, and he was back again, dropping a big rat at the landlord's feet and, wagging his tail with pride. "Weel done, Bobby! There's a bite and a bone for you here ony time o' day you call for it. Ay, a sensible bit dog will attend to his ain education and mak' himsel' usefu'." Mr. Traill felt a sudden access of warm liking for the attractive little scrap of knowingness and pluck.
It stands out by itself from all the others, the sharp, critical knowingness, sparkling with puns, of a Beckett, the inimitable, wise, easy, playful, worldly, social sketch of Thackeray. In imagery he had no rivals there; for his mind had a very marked tendency to the ornamental and illustrative, even to the grotesque.
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