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Yet, step by step, and with every step pondered reverently ere another was laid to Its fellow's foundation; with full knowledge of the end ere yet was the beginning accomplished; In every gesture, every pause, intonation, invocation, stave of song, phrase of prayer; by painful degrees wrought in the soul's sweat and tears, unadorned, cold as fine stone, yet glittering none the less like fair marble set in the sun was that solemn Mass sung through in the bare Church to the glory of God and His angels, who must ever rejoice in a work done so that the master-mind is straining and on watch over heart and voice.
He goes much farther at times than simply to play pranks, however. A wide range of expression is possible in the Scherzo when manipulated by a master-mind like that of Beethoven.
"Now, padre, I have got something to amuse me. You do just as I tell you, and we'll checkmate this quiet game. "We are not on the bedrock yet, but we've struck the vein. Don't you say a word to a living soul here. "I'll have that maid watched, and tell Vimont to give you all the particulars of her cuttings-up. "She's not the master-mind of this. She has never been to the convent.
From time to time men went to the stairs-head and watched the seas washing green and slimy in the corridors, or spoke of them beating upon the very steps of the great hall and threatening to rise up and up until they engulfed us all and conquered even the citadel we held. Nevertheless, iron gates held them back. Not vainly had Czerny's master-mind foreseen such a misfortune as this.
Lincoln and his Cabinet An Odd Assortment of Officials Misconceptions of Rights and Duties Frictions and Misunderstandings The Early Cabinet Meetings Informal Conversational Affairs Queer Attitude toward the War Regarded as a Political Affair Proximity to Washington a Hindrance to Military Success Disturbances in the Cabinet A Senate Committee Demands Seward's Removal from the Cabinet Lincoln's Mastery of the Situation Harmony Restored Stanton becomes War Secretary Sketch of a Remarkable Man Next to Lincoln, the Master-mind of the Cabinet Lincoln the Dominant Power.
He loses all power of volition, and his very thoughts are such as are suggested to him by the master-mind. The same end may be attained without any preliminary process. A strong will can, simply by virtue of its strength, take possession of a weaker one, even at a distance, and can regulate the impulses and the actions of the owner of it.
In this way he acquired a vast hoard of all sorts of learning, and had it pigeon-holed in his head where he could put his intellectual hand on it whenever it was wanted. Nobody could infer the master-mind in the top of that edifice from the edifice itself. He was an orator by nature in the first place, and later by the training of experience and practice.
It was one of those intervals in history when the whole genius of a people is concentrated on great architectural works, and art becomes an epitome of the age. For the Taj was not a creation of a single master-mind, but the consummation of a great art epoch.
"Let's leave them alone, boys, and return to the castle, while the master-mind and his faithless guard have it out between themselves," suggested the Earl. Whereupon we all followed him quietly back to the library, filled with mixed emotions. When we were back again in the seats from which we had recently been so sharply disturbed, the Earl said to me: "Well, Doctor Watson, what do you make of it?
When Root had gone away, Master-mind in his girl form lived with his beloved, and in a few days came to know her in an intimate and loving way, as girl friends do. Then when he saw that she was pining away and tossing on her couch, he asked the princess one evening: "My dear girl, why do you grow pale and thin day by day, grieving as if separated from your love? Tell me.
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