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On the other hand, the Imperial families, no doubt, considered that in entertaining us they were more especially entertaining the people of America than they could by showering attentions on a whole platoon of ministers plenipotentiary and therefore they gave to the event its fullest significance, as an expression of good will and friendly feeling toward the entire country.
She wanted to marry him to money: and if Leonora were to go, if he were left alone, forsaken, then despair and time, which can do all things would break his will; and eventually he would succumb, like a victim at the altar, who, in his terror and abasement, does not sense the real significance of the sacrifice forced upon him. The words reached a jealous spot in Leonora's heart.
The collation of the conditions under which mystical states of mind are experienced among savages with similar experiences among the higher races, proves at once that this statement contains no exaggeration of the facts. The continuity of the phenomena is, indeed, of profound significance, and is too often ignored.
Homer's supernatural machinery may be reckoned as a device a device to heighten the general style and action of his poems; the significance of Homer must be found among his heroes, not among his gods. But with Milton, it has become necessary to entrust to the supernatural action the whole aim and purport of the poem.
The emotional renaissance in Europe was not the wide-spreading of Christian doctrines, but it was through Christian doctrine that Europe came to know of the rediscovery of the emotional significance of the Universe.
"I merely suggested it," I was putting in, when he cut me short. "Aren't you the son of Matthew Paret?" "Yes," I said. He gave me a queer glance, the significance of which I left untranslated. My excitement was too great to analyze what he meant by this mention of my father.... When we reached the sidewalk my chief gave me a few parting instructions.
Well, that book disappeared a month ago." "The deuce!" said Velmont, "that looks bad. But it doesn't seem to be a sufficient reason for sending for Sherlock Holmes." "Certainly, that was not sufficient in itself, but another incident happened that gives the disappearance of the book a special significance.
Understood in its entirety, the law is that each plant or animal produces others of like kind with itself: the likeness of kind consisting not so much in the repetition of individual traits as in the assumption of the same general structure. This truth has been made by daily illustration so familiar as nearly to have lost its significance.
This was the journey of Kendall and Hongi to England. To understand the course of events and to appreciate its fell significance, it is necessary to keep in mind both what the Englishman was doing in New Zealand, and what the New Zealander was doing in England, during those same months of the year 1820.
That same Thursday, when the first families of the city were whispering jubilantly in each other's ears of the safe arrival of the artillery and stands of arms at Camp Jackson, something of significance was happening within the green inclosure of the walls of the United States arsenal, far to the southward. The days had become alike in sadness to Stephen.
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