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She was indeed one of those who bore her honours meekly. I recall her vividly when she was well past youth, in the enjoyment of the substantial gains success had brought. In her childhood she had known pinching poverty, for her philosophic father could never exchange his lucubrations for bread and clothes, philosophising, however, none the less.
Perhaps the keynote to the charm of George Sand's art is given in her preface to her exquisite novel "La Derniere Aldini." Here is none of the accuracy and patience of the scientific enquirer into the "mysterious mixture" man, which we find in George Eliot's preface to "Middlemarch." Indeed these prefaces sum up the remarkably differing characteristics of the two writers. George Eliot is occupied with "the function of knowledge" in regard to the "ardently willing soul." She explains in her preface that the aim of her book is to trace the fate of the Saint. Theresas of a past age, in the ordinary environment and circumstances of our time. The problem was, how were detachment of mind and spiritual longing and love to find their developments in a modern prosaic setting. George Eliot brought to bear on this enquiry all her great powers of observation, discrimination and thought. Each page of the novel reveals the conscious endeavour of the born thinker to express in artistic form some conception that would help to clear the outlook on which the answer to the problem depended. George Sand, who had also her philosophising, and her analysing moods, was yet capable of feeling that novels may be romances. She could write under the sway of pure emotion and apart from theory. George Eliot never regarded her novels as mere romances. "Romances," said George Sand in her preface, "are always 'fantasies, and these fantasies of the imagination are like the clouds which pass. Whence come the clouds and whither do they go? In wandering about the Forest of Fontainebleau tête
The unsatisfactory character of all speculations having for their object 'nonentities with formidable names, should long ere this have opened men's eyes to the folly of multiplying causes without necessity another rule of philosophising, for which we are indebted to Newton, but to which no superstitious philosophiser pays due attention.
The unsatisfactory character of all speculations having for their object 'nonentities with formidable names, should long ere this have opened men's eyes to the folly of multiplying causes without necessity another rule of philosophising, for which we are indebted to Newton, but to which no religious philosophiser pays due attention.
The only pleasure we have in this dull hole is drinking and philosophising. . . . What an embankment, Lord have mercy on us!" he said admiringly, as we approached the embankment; "it is more like Mount Ararat than an embankment."
No more of this: proceed to your philosophical remarks. Berg. They are already delivered. Scip. How so? Berg. In those remarks on Latin and the vulgar tongue, which I began and you finished. Scip. Do you call railing philosophising?
To 'frame clear and distinct ideas of them' is impossible. In respect to the attribute of unknown ability all Gods are alike. But, according to a universally recognised rule of philosophising, of two difficulties we are in all cases to choose the least.
It is to be hoped that such criticisms would not now be made on the manners of the senior members of the University, and that in this respect Oxford has been reformed, to the approval of all concerned. While Wilkins was experimenting and philosophising in London, events had been marching rapidly in England and in Oxford.
He has seen the folly of explaining natural, by the invention of supernatural mystery, because it manifestly violates a rule of philosophising, the justness of which it would be ridiculous to dispute.
Harvey liked to gaze long at the little face, puzzled by its frequent gravity, delighted by its flashes of mirth. Syllables of baby-talk set him musing and philosophising. How fresh and young, yet how wondrously old!
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