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Then, of course, Meadowsweet was quite a gentleman." "My dear friend! A draper a gentleman?" "I grant the anomaly is not common," said the Rector. "But in Meadowsweet's case I make a correct statement. He was a perfect gentleman after the type of some of those who are mentioned in the Sacred Writings. He was honest, courteous, self-forgetful.

If the Lord was then concerned to have preachers set right on water baptism, even when their gospel knowledge was accurate in every other particular, does he not have a similar concern now? and if our hearts are in perfect accord with his, will his concern not be our concern? "Baptism a mere form?"

Every moment of her days was laid out in some duty imposed upon her by the regimen she had arranged after a study of all that science says on the subject. As perfect tranquillity was a fundamental of the régime, she permitted nothing to ruffle her. But Ed more than made up for her calm.

In this shape, he represents the ideal element in things solely, and is our champion and our helper and we his helpers, against the bad parts of the universe. Fechner was in fact too little of a metaphysician to care for perfect formal consistency in these abstract regions.

To be sure, if Nettie was not here, what a charming opportunity to make himself disagreeable, and give the other two a piece of his mind! Edward Rider was anything but perfect. He decided on that expedient with an angry satisfaction. Since he could not have Nettie, he would at least have this relief to his feelings, which was next best.

But Love, that most god-like of all emotions, has many phases, and a merely sexual attraction is the least and worst part of the divine passion. There is a higher form, one far more lasting and perfect, in which Self has very little part, and though I cannot give it a name, I am certain of its existence!"

With his understanding he might have succeeded in anything, but the impossibility of applying himself, and his turn for dissipation, prevented his acquiring a perfect knowledge of any subject. His talents are however various, and this is sufficient for the circles in which he wishes to distinguish himself.

From the top, beside a little crag full of clinging trees, that held on tenaciously to the crevices and ledges, with so perfect an accommodation to their precarious situation, Hugh surveyed the wide valleys, and saw the smoke ascend from hamlets and houses, the lake as still as a mirror, while the shadows lengthened on the hills, which seemed indeed to change their very shapes by delicate gradations.

Blackwood thinks his magazine "so perfect that no addition to its power would be either possible or desirable", and whether it is pride that actuates him, or custom, or prejudice, and conjures him: "Be a man, sir!" Nothing came of it. Mr. Blackwood refused to be a man. Yet Branwell had his chance. He went to London, but nothing came of it.

And thus he continued in that School, till he came to be perfect in the learned languages, and especially in the Greek tongue, in which he after proved an excellent critic.