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"I am not such a fool as to say that genius is of either sex; but it is an acknowledged fact that no woman ever was a great painter, poet, or musician. Genius, the mighty one, scorns to exist in weak female nature; and even if it did, custom and education would certainly stunt its growth.
You know he always scorns me as not being high-toned and elegant enough for his social confidences. He asked for you only." With an uneasy sense of some impending revelation, Christie descended to the drawing-room.
"The weapon of the Hottentot may be said to be the bow and arrow, but the Caffre scorns this warfare, or indeed any treachery; his weapons are his assaguay, or spear, and his shield; he fights openly and bravely. The Caffres also cultivate their land to a certain extent, and are more cleanly and civilised.
If you will not aid me for the sake of a poor, helpless, infatuated girl, who is on the brink of ruin " "Missis Dashwood," said the Bloater, with a look of serio-comic dignity, "I scorns bribery as much as you does. `No bribery, no c'rupt'ons, no Popery, them's my mottoes besides a few more that there's no occasion to mention. W'ether or not I gives 'im up depends on circumstances.
The Doctor is a pompous and outwardly severe man but inwardly weak and easy; loving a joke and a glass of port-wine. I get on with him, therefore, much better than Mr. Prince, who scorns him for an ass, and under whose keen eyes the worthy Doctor writhes like a convicted impostor; and many a sunshiny afternoon would he have said, "Mr.
For Dunkirk; he wonders any wise people should be so troubled thereat, and scorns all their talk against it, for that he says it was not Dunkirk, but the other places, that did and would annoy us, though we had that, as much as if we had it not. Afterwards he told me of poor Mr. Pepys.
For, in bold natures, there is a lavish and uncalculating recklessness which scorns self unconsciously and though there is a fear which arises from a loving heart, and is but sympathy for others the fear which belongs to a timid character is but egotism but, when physical, the regard for one's own person: when moral, the anxiety for one's own interests.
'Which is he? 'Our God. 'The God of Israel? 'Even so. 'A frail minority, then, burn incense to him. 'We are the chosen people. 'Chosen for scoffs, and scorns, and contumelies. Commend me to such choice. 'We forgot Him, before He chastened us. 'Why did we? 'Thou knowest the records of our holy race. 'Yes, I know them; like all records, annals of blood.
The Duke of Wellington proudly declared that truth was the characteristic of an English officer, that when he was bound by a parole he would not break his word; for the gentleman scorns to lie, in word or deed; and is ready to brave all consequences rather than debase himself by falsehood.
The short space of threescore years can never content the imagination of man; nor can the imperfect joys of this world satisfy his heart. Man alone, of all created beings, displays a natural contempt of existence, and yet a boundless desire to exist; he scorns life, but he dreads annihilation.
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