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He married an accomplished and charitable lady, and she did not spoil the stock in refining it.
These monarchies which are decried have been the fostering arms of genius and art; and in Italy and the rest of the countries here lie the grand achievements of all time, which draw the noblest and best from America to contemplate them and suck the heart of their beauty for the refining and adorning their own land. And why fear imitation!
Mary grimly told herself that her school was to have refining influences, even if it had no furniture. The books, pencils, and paper arranged in decorous little piles, Miss Carmichael announced to her patroness that school was ready to open. Mrs.
Tucker, soothingly. "His eyes were quite wild," continued the widow. "If anything happens to him I shall never forgive myself. I have spoilt his life." Mr. Tucker pressed her hand and spoke of the well-known refining influence a hopeless passion for a good woman had on a man. He cited his own case as an example.
When she was putting them on she always felt she was slipping her hands in his. And then there was yet a further consolation. For the gloves had also a subtle effect on Lancelot. They gave him a sense of responsibility. He had started refining her, and he must go on till she was, so to speak, all gloves. He must cover up her coarse speech, as he had covered up her coarse hands.
The refining agencies which finally raise the animal up to the man are essentially the same that on the lowest scales of the pedigree have caused the development of the lower organisms into the higher, namely: favorable individual variations, inheritance, acclimatization, survival of the fittest in the struggle for existence, natural, and especially, sexual selection.
A mere reference to the status of manufactures in which the trust is now the all-prevailing fact will make the contrast clear. In 1865 thousands of independent companies were drilling oil in Pennsylvania and there were more than two hundred which were refining the product.
Does one fear the change from gross to fine, from force of freezing to the winged energy of steam, from solid zinc to lightning? Our whole desire for education is a desire for refining influences. We know there is a higher love for country than that begotten by the fanfare of the Fourth of July.
"You seem to me, if you will forgive the expression, to be more than half a Pagan; to put Christianity on a level though you allow it a certain pre-eminence with other refining influences.
He is with you; but if you plead the promise of the Father, 'which, says Christ, 'ye have heard of Me, He will be in you. He will fill your souls with His light, love, und glory, according to that verse which we have so often sung together: "Refining Fire, go through my heart, Illuminate my soul; Scatter Thy life through every part, And sanctify the whole.
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