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It is the basic principle underlying all religion; take out of it the personal, selfish consideration, 'Be good and you can go to Heaven! be bad and go to Hell! and your whole religion falls to pieces. Take selfishness out of the world and the world will stagnate and rot." "I have never heard you wax so eloquent in your own defence!" "I am not defending myself, I am explaining.
If the town of Bellevue was to stagnate mentally, it would not be the fault of George F. Castleton, A.M., M.D.
It fell to its lot to invade the elevated plain of Lithuania: there are the sources of the rivers which empty their waters into the Black and Baltic seas. But the soil there is slow in determining their inclination and their current, so that the waters stagnate and overflow the country to a great extent.
The most offensive employments, for the want of a better, have often been resumed, to relieve the mind from the intolerable load of nothing, the heaviest of all weights, as it needs must be to an immortal spirit: for the mind cannot stop, except it be in a mad-house; there, indeed, it may rest, or rather stagnate, on one thought, its little circle, perhaps of misery.
We don't stagnate at least I hope not I have a horror of stagnation. I said so to the Archdeacon the other day, and he said that there was nothing stagnant about Windlow." "No, I am quite sure there is not," said Howard politely. "It's very good of you to say so, Howard," said Mr. Sandys delightedly. "Really quite a compliment!
You shall be honorably known you shall be illustrious, as the brother of Nugent Dubourg. Do you think I could stand in the way of such a career as that? After what he has sacrificed for me, could I let Such a Man stagnate here for no better purpose than to keep me company? What does it matter about my feeling lonely?
Analogous with that wonderful Gulf Stream, once a myth, still a mystery, the strange current of human existence bears each and all of us with a strong, steady sweep from the tropic lands of sunny childhood, enameled with verdure and gaudy with bloom, through the temperate regions of manhood and womanhood, fruitful or fruitless as the case may be; on to the often frigid, lonely shores of old age, snow-crowned and ice-veined; and individual destinies seem to resemble the tangled drift on those broad gulf billows, strewn on barren beaches, stranded upon icebergs, some to be scorched under equatorial heats, some to perish by polar perils; a few to take root and flourish, building imperishable landmarks; and many to stagnate in the long inglorious rest of the Sargasso Sea.
That is the reason why people who live out of town are so absolutely uncivilized. Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate." "Culture and corruption," echoed Dorian. "I have known something of both.
Narrow streets with modern buildings are generally dirty, for want of these natural helps; as Digbeth, St. Martin's-lane, Swan-alley, Carr's-lane, &c. The narrower the street, the less it can be influenced by the sun and the wind, consequently, the more the dirt will abound; and by experimental observations upon stagnate water in the street, it is found extremely prejudicial to health.
"Come, now, old mother Prim, don't throw cold water on our little party," said Alicia. "You know how the conversation would run, with uncle at the helm!" "It wouldn't run at all," laughed Bernice, "it would stagnate!" When the girls began to dress for the tea, there was a wide diversity of opinion as to appropriate costumes. "Our very best," said Alicia decidedly. "Nothing's too good for Bayne!"
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