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...ry expression that wom- anly dignity could utter played around it with the flexibility of female grace. It spoke not only to the ear, but to the eye. ... ...e from a peacock’s tail. He had colored his sides so that they looked like anatomy, ribs and all, for Chingachgook had a great taste in such things, s... ...f grog,” interrupted the steward, his features settling down, with amazing flexibility, into their natural economy. “But, d’yesee, squire, I kept my h... ...t I can’t say so much for her flesh, d’ye see, for she looks somewhat like anatomy with another man’ s jacket on. Now for the skin of her face, it’s a...

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...onfidence on all subjects. His essays were a sort of literary 7 Montaigne anatomy, where we get a diagnosis of the writer’s mind, made by himself at ... ..., De Divin., ii. 57.] But as to the other prognostics, calculated from the anatomy of beasts at sacrifices (to which purpose Plato does, in part, attr... ...uthor ever wrote; to some it is merely a grammar study, to others the very anatomy of philosophy, by which the most abstruse parts of our human nature... ...ou with one faculty of my youth? I had great assurance of countenance, and flexibility of voice and gesture, in applying myself to any part I undertoo... ... though not with so necessary and absolute a dominion but that through the flexibility and inconstancy of the soul, those of less authority may upon o...

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...the great Cuvier, and John Hunter, and Lesson, those lights of zoology and anatomy. Neverthe- less, though of real knowledge there be little, yet of b... ...may possibly be conceived that, in the internal parts of the whale, in his anatomy—there, at least, we shall be able to hit the right classification. ... ...ication. Nay; what thing, for ex- ample, is there in the Greenland whale’s anatomy more striking than his baleen? Yet we have seen that by his baleen ... ...t part is relatively heavier than any other (excepting the side-fins), its flexibility even in death, causes it to sink low beneath the surface; so th... ...ale? Did erudite Stubb, mounted upon your capstan, deliver lectures on the anatomy of the Cetacea; and by help of the windlass, hold up a specimen rib...

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... of his high professional distinction had been located in that part of his anatomy, dismissed the point for the moment with a calm “I see.” Then leani... ... groping in the depths of decayed clothing. His form was squat and without flexibility. Stevie, slender, his shoulders a little up, and his hands thru...

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...ull too prominent. There is something inde finably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watch ful way of looking out of the corners of her ... ...t the flute. The old girl said it wouldn’t do; intention good, but want of flexibility; try the bassoon. The old girl bor rowed a bassoon from the ba...

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...ull too prominent. There is something inde finably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watch ful way of looking out of the corners of her ... ...t the flute. The old girl said it wouldn’t do; intention good, but want of flexibility; try the bassoon. The old girl bor rowed a bassoon from the ba...

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...f fairly systematic inquiry knows remarkably little. Save for some general anatomy, it is impossible to teach school-children anything true about the ... ...igue, folly—you have as much of it as one pen may condense in old Burton’s Anatomy—and through it all a vast multitude of decent, respectable bodies p... ...scent students in any subject, in philology just as much as in comparative anatomy, and in history just as much as in economics. The cheapening of pri... ...ject for “Huxley”—”Huxley” they will call the subject, and not Comparative Anatomy, on the model of “Euclid”—or for the retention of compulsory 196 M... ...e taken, and in addition some special department, ei- ther the Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrata chiefly, or of the plants chiefly , or of several... ...he general sea of thought and action. Thought is the life, the spontaneous flexibility of a com- munity. A community that thinks freely and fully thro...

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...e World? . . . And how are all things made for man? —Kepler (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy) BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS CHAPTER ONE CHAP... ...nowledge ended. He presented them as tilted, stiff tripods, without either flexibility or subtlety, and with an altogether misleading monotony of effe... ...n Mars they may have progressed upon them with some facility. The internal anatomy, I may remark here, as dissection has since shown, was almost equal...

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... act. Blinded by a kind of delirium, he did not even notice the unexpected flexibility of the piece of shagreen, which coiled itself up, pliant as a g... ... to that long work, for which I studied Oriental languages, physiology and anatomy. If I do not deceive myself, my la- bors will complete the task beg... ...ur- prised by the incompetence and failure of science and of fire; but the flexibility of the skin as he handled it, taken with its stubbornness when ... ...drugs of the pharmacopoeia, the formulae of algebra, the demonstrations of anatomy, and derides all our efforts; a sort of invisible, intangible flame...

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.... It would have been easier in Italy than anywhere else. Italian, from its flexibility and its analogy to French, would have lent itself admirably to ... ... Hence, however lucid and free be the style of his romance, and though its flexibility and ease seem at first sight to have cost no trouble at all, ye... ...d so wonderful that Democritus hath written a whole book of its figure and anatomy, as also of its virtue and propriety in magic. This I can affirm, t...

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...l read and write the same script. The Chinese language‘s continuity and flexibility has sustained China‘s culture down through the ages—perhaps mo... ...inuous process— a march in the direction of ever increasing simplicity and flexibility, unbroken for 1,500 years.‖ By the end of the eighth century,... ...ngland. English continued to develop as a ―borrowing‖ language of great flexibility and ever- increasing vocabulary. It remained in flux even after... ...s in plain English. English continued to evolve in both simplicity and flexibility for more than a century after Caxton. The language fully ripen... ...s alongside towering typesetting machines melt twenty-eight-pound lead-and-anatomy cylinders, ―pigs‖ needed to form the type characters. An operat...

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...he wisdom of our fathers, give me leave to say that their ignorance of the anatomy of man’s body have led them into the paths of error and ran them in... ...fe.” But many curi- ous physicians, searching the works of nature in man’s anatomy, do affirm that its chief seat is in the brain, from whence proceed... ...st alluring tempter that comes in the way, being, through the softness and flexibility of their nature, and the strong desire they have after what nat... ... HAVING GIVEN A DESCRIPTION of the organs of generation in women, with the anatomy of the fabric of the womb, I shall now, in order to finish the firs... ...cupping glasses to the breasts and also over the liver, and to correct the flexibility of the matter, purgative means, moderated by astringents, may b... ...Bartholomew Carbrolius, the ordinary doctor of 127 The Works of Aristotle anatomy to the College of Physicians at Montpellier in France, records the ...

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...homas Aquainas’ works; and tell me whether those men took pains.”—Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy, P . I, s. 2. THIS WA S MR. CASAUBON’S LETTER. My Dea... ...ht seem inconvenient to do so. The page he opened on was under the head of Anatomy, and the first passage that drew his eyes was on the valves of the ... ...ee hundred years ago, and had already begun a new era 415 George Eliot in anatomy.” “I can’t guess,” said Rosamond, shaking her head. “W e used to pl... ...ll tell you. His name was V esalius. And the only way he could get to know anatomy as he did, was by going to snatch bodies at night, from graveyards ... ... a pure voice, just trembling in the last words as if only from its liquid flexibility— “Y es, it must be right for you to do as you say. I shall be v...