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Yet people in general do not perform these actions, but taking refuge in talk they flatter themselves they are philosophising, and that they will so be good men: acting in truth very like those sick people who listen to the doctor with great attention but do nothing that he tells them: just as these then cannot be well bodily under such a course of treatment, so neither can those be mentally by such philosophising.
Had we been writing novels instead of authentic histories, we might have carried them anywhere else we chose: and we had a great mind to make Hayes philosophising with Bolingbroke, like a certain Devereux; and Mrs. Catherine maitresse en titre to Mr.
One very sultry forenoon Mark and his party while out botanising, entomologising, philosophising, etcetera, not far from but out of sight of the great procession came to the brow of a hill and sat down to rest.
"What are you philosophising about, young ladies?" asked Mr. Langford, coming up as Henrietta said these last words. "Only about the spirit of the chase, grandpapa," said Beatrice, "what the pleasure can be of the field of slaughter there." "Something mysterious, you may be sure, young ladies," said grandpapa.
Nature's course is always zigzag, and no one can predict a human action." "Well, then, my good friend, when you have done philosophising I don't mean to be rude, but you see my nerves have been at strain for the last four-and-twenty hours; you will excuse me. My notion now is that everything has happened for the best."
The sentimental, wavering Alexander I. had been succeeded by his stern, energetic brother Nicholas, and the command went forth that there should be no more fireworks, no more dilettante philosophising or political aspirations. There was, however, little need for such an order. Society had been, for the moment at least, effectually cured of all tendencies to political dreaming.
And just at that moment he irritatingly discovered a dead mole, and fell to philosophising upon it and its soft, velvet, dainty skin as if a girl's fingers were not softer and daintier! "Look at its poor little pale-red mouth," he went on, "gaspingly open, as in surprise at the strange great forces that had made and killed it." "I dare say it had a good time," said Amber, pettishly.
The apathy that exists in regard to the subject of philosophy is not easy to explain. It is not that philosophising is only possible to the greatest intellects; it is indeed natural for the normal mind to do so. In a quiet hour, when the world with its rush and din leaves us to ourselves and the universe, we begin to ask ourselves "Why" and "How," and then almost unconsciously we philosophise.
Perhaps you may be passed in with even a solfeggio, but just think! suppose you are asked to "describe the most expressive movement in the action of a man throwing a stone," or "how many heads there are in the Milo!"... Such philosophising is quite the thing here at Benares everyone does.
"And that's what you women can't understand, isn't it? that the best of things is the wishing for them. Once there, and they are nothing only another delusion. The happiest man is the man whose wishes are never fulfilled. He always has a moon to cry for." "Come, come now," said Madeleine. "We know your love for paradox. But not to-day. There's no time for philosophising today.
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