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...nd perhaps illustrating some sense of human kindness. "When you do obsessive acts it isn't exactly nutty. You are trying to seek order in past trauma... ... was selfish, altruistic, curious, and indifferent went into the simplest of acts. She could see there, in this dog centering its actions on her boy a... ...e loathed contemplation. And so the months passed by in a vapid and dizzying succession of things to do. Real existential pondering or the internal c...

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...utterfly-except that situations do not always follow one another in clear succession, but often c 17 there is a. happening profoundly twofold, con... ...re stock of objects, and whose life is built up within a narrow circle of acts highly charged with presentness. The nuclei of this speech, words in... ...me lovingly and unforgettably aware of a complete body. Neither of these acts is experience of an object, but is the correspondence of the child-to... ...For the present let the paramount contribution made by the perception and acts of the world of Thou be left out of account.) Hence, in general, the ... ... response to the Thou: but about this response he preserves silence. His succession among the peoples, however, that e< great vehicle", has contrad... ...w I cause my attitude of soul to the world to grow to life, to life tha.t acts upon the 'World, to real life-and in real life the ways of very diffe... ...ecomes '8.n object of faith.' ,At first faith, set in time, completes the acts of relation; but gradually it replaces them. Resting in belief in an...

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...erile; but the other nine (from 1805 to 1815 inclusively) furnished a long succession of victories, the least of which, in such a contest of Titans, h... ...e racing along a train of gunpowder, will be kindling at every instant new successions of burning joy, has an obscure effect of multiplying the vic- t... ...visionary sympathy with the yet slumbering sym- pathies which in so vast a succession we are going to awake. Liberated from the embarrassments of the ... ...of a sudden death from the disposition to lay a false stress upon words or acts simply because by an accident they have become final words or acts. If... ...been a thousand times more, I saw, not discur- sively, or by effort, or by succession, but by one flash of hor- rid simultaneous intuition. Under this... ...*“Averted signs”:—I read the course and changes of the lady’s agony in the succession of her involuntary gestures; but it must be remembered that I re... ...ll, both were found true and loyal to any promises involved in their first acts. Enemies it was that made the difference between their subsequent fort...

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...o any real story , thoughtfully and faith- fully related, moving through a succession of scenes suffi- ciently varied, that are not suffered to remain... ...e character of my thoughts changed greatly; for so representative are some acts, that one single case of the class is sufficient to throw open before ... ...s in the development of opium, repeat with marvellous accuracy the longest succession of phenom- ena derived either from reading or from actual experi... ...ex the images, and that, perhaps, it is which gives him the air of one who acts reluctantly or evasively. Now, again, the sun shines more brightly, an... ...rd the entire list of my brothers and sisters, according to their order of succession; and Miltonically I include myself; having surely as much logica... ...to his capricious opinions. And these opinions sometimes took the shape of acts. Twice, at the least, in every week, but some- times every night, my b... ...re days of rest) the same scene rehearsed itself in pretty nearly the same succession of cir- cumstances. Between four and five o’clock we had crossed... ...ere had darkened the days of people known to my- self through two distinct successions—not, as was natural to expect, of parents first and then childr... ...njured sol- dier any practical redress—he could look for no retaliation by acts. Words only were at his command; and, in a tumult of indignation, as h...

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...he evacuated two large stones after supper. On quitting Venice, he went in succession to Ferrara, Rovigo, Padua, Bologna (where he had a stomach-ache)... ...phy. He then took my hand, and continued: “Brother, friend, there are many acts of my life, I think, which have cost me as much difficulty as this one... ...And, come the worst that can come, the distribution and variety of all the acts of my comedy are performed in a year. If you have observed the revolut... ...thers and nephews only inherit; and elsewhere, nephews only, saving in the succession of the prince: where, for the regulation of community in goods a... ...iged to do the same, and the right of the kingdom devolves to the third in succession: where they vary the form of government, according to the seemin... ...at we ought not to follow, but to contemplate with the greatest reverence: acts of His per- sonage, and not for us. Cotta very opportunely declares: “... ...ther nations do letters. Plato tells us that the eldest son in their royal succession was thus brought up; after his birth he was delivered, not to wo... ...rammar or poetry, and only busy themselves in studying the genealogies and successions of their kings, the foundations, rises, and declensions of stat... ...understanding that improves everything, that orders every- thing, and that acts, rules, and reigns: all other faculties are blind, and deaf, and witho...

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...ssions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers: and for any such acts of gratuitous self-humiliation from those who can be supposed in sympa... ...open to doubts of casu- istry, according as that name shall be extended to acts aim- ing at the bare relief of pain, or shall be restricted to such as... ...quences by the necessity of interposing long intervals between the several acts of indulgence, in or- der to renew the pleasurable sensations. It was ... ... meet with a thousand occasions for moderating and tempering this sense by acts of courteous condescension. With the families of bish- ops it is other... ...pal bench taken from noble families is not at any time very large, and the succession to these dignities is so rapid that the pub- lic ear seldom has ... ...stood in the relation to each other (not sate in any relation whatever) of succession, as the meta- physicians have it, and not of a coexistence; in t... ...of organic sound an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic character... ...white cottage, embowered with flowering shrubs, so cho- sen as to unfold a succession of flowers upon the walls and 60 Confessions of an English Opiu... ...ough it is eminently an organic science (no part, that is to say, but what acts on the whole as the whole again reacts on each part), yet the several ...

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...the more occasion to remark the extraordinarily desolate nature of that country, through which the drove road continued, hour after hour and even day ... ...ies. People are arrested, in nine cases out of ten, not because the police are astute, but because they themselves run short of money; and I had here ... ...ome an eligible suitor. What advances I had made in the past, as a private soldier in a military prison, or a fugitive by the wayside, could only be q... ...m? Your uncle burned the papers! I told you so—but doubt- less you have forgotten—the day I first saw you in Edinburgh Castle. It was an act of genero... ...my throat, the sight of my eyes, the tears that now sprang there, the whole man of me, was fashioned of French earth and born of a French mother; I ha... ..., bedewed with tallow, at the ‘Hunters’ Rest.’ I was introduced; and we set off by way of Newhaven and the sea beach; at first through pleasant countr...

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...fter-thought, six years below our sister. She was always performing little acts of conscientiousness, little as we guessed it. Thus though her unremit... ...y merit, and her Fairchild Family indulged in such delicious and eccentric acts of naugh- tiness as quite atoned for all the religious teaching, and f... ...pt for the insufferable dulness of the country, en- livening it by various acts of monkey-mischief, in some of which Martyn had been implicated. That ... ...- pose, as well as with my father’s conduct in the matter; and so, after a succession of private interviews, very tantalising to us poor outsiders, it... ...standing by my fire, telling me the vari- ous humours of the night, when a succession of shrieks ran through the house. He dashed away to see what was...

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...the truth. The world must return some day to the word duty, and be done with the word reward. There are no rewards, and plenty duties. And the sooner ... ...een having a good time; in the end of my verandah, I hear Simi, my present incapable stew- ard, talking Tongan with the nondescript papa. Simi, our ou... ...e return in disarray. Fanny quite sick, but I think slowly and steadily mending; Belle in a terrific state of dentistry troubles which now seem calmed...

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...his force is, but there is a force, and these are the conditions in which it acts. Let the scientific men find out what the force consists in. Not, I do... ...eps, cat drove, as he had intended, to the Italian opera. He sat through two acts there, and saw every one he had wanted to see. On returning home, he... ...words did not check his imagination for long. Again in extraordinarily rapid succession his best moments rose before his mind, and then his recent hum... ...were, with perplexity or reproach in her eyes. Shots followed shots in rapid succession. The smoke of the powder hung about the sportsmen, while in th... ...aid in another group; “the wife must be registered as noble.” “Oh, damn your acts! I speak from my heart. We’re all gentlemen, aren’t we? Above suspic... ...ok, and gazing before her with her fine pensive eyes, “that is how true faith acts. You know Marie Sanina? You know about her trouble? She lost her onl... ...aking of the last telegram stating that the Turks had been for three days in succession beaten at all points and put to flight, and that to morrow a de...

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...Delusions needs must come: yet how gently, in softening diffusion, in mild succession, was it hereby made to fall;—like no all-destroying avalanche; l... ...hought in their hearts, but is some fraction of the great Battle. Add many successions of angry words together, you have the manual brawl; add brawls ... ..., at once of a Lieutenancy and Regency; debates in the Assembly itself, of succession to the Throne ‘in case the present Branch should fail;’ and Phil... ...roject these people have on foot to get the King away; or of the perpetual succession of manoeuvres they employ for that.’ Nobody: the watchful Mother... ...l hence- forth have no one Commandant; but all Colonels shall com- mand in succession, month about. Other Deputies we have met, or Dame de Stael has m... ..., known to us by name, Able Editor, and wit of all work. Poor Sulleau: his Acts of the Apostles, and brisk Placard-Journals (for he was an able man) c...

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...itution of the empire, the fre- quent change of dynasty, the many disputed successions, had combined to render the sovereign authority uncertain and ... ... full vigour, and with an able and enterprising son already elected to the succession, was making his rule felt, and it was fast becoming apparent tha... ... and savagely desolate and bare. She now saw that the Eagle’s Ladder was a succession of bare gigantic ter- races of rock, of which the opposite side ... ... the sake of giving a lift to a holy wayfarer was one of the most esteemed acts of piety of the Middle Age, so that no one durst object to it, and the... ...h the Church. He could think, but could not act; and now we have a man who acts, but WILL not think. It may have been a good day for our German reputa...

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... him in that light and airy shape. When she has frolicked through her five Acts to surprise you with the information that Mr. Aimwell is converted by ... ...er Farce. Five is dignity with a trailing robe; whereas one, two, or three Acts would be short skirts, and degrading. Advice has been given to househo... ...to the fact of our not producing matter for original study, is repeated in succession by Wycherley, Congreve, and Sheridan, and as it is at second han...

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...eeping vaults her hallow’d earth contains! 300 With Edward’s acts 50 adorn the shining page, Stretch his long triumphs down through eve... ...of English poetry; who flourished in the time of Henry VIII. 50 ‘Edward’s acts:’ Edward III., born here. 51 ‘Henry mourn:’ Henry VI. 52 ‘Once-fear’... ...pe – V olume One This needless labour; and contend no more To prove a dull succession to be true, Since ’tis enough we find it so in you. ODE ON SOLIT... ...bitious fools!’ (the Queen replied, and frown’ d) 350 ‘Be all your acts in dark oblivion drown’d; There sleep forgot, with mighty tyrants gone... ... of, as we lived unseen; ’Tis all we beg thee, to conceal from sight Those acts of goodness which themselves requite. Oh let us still the secret joy p... ...silent shade: ’Tis hers the brave man’s latest steps to trace, Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. 30 When interest c... ...Swears every place entail’d for years to come, 160 In sure succession to the day of doom: He names the price for every office paid, An...

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...s is holding its breath, to see what stroke will fall on it. Poor Peltier! Acts of Apostles, and all jocundity of Leading-Articles, are gone out, and ... ...lorn Hope, and Enfant Perdu of the Revolution, is his quality,—and the man acts according to that. “We must put our enemies in fear!” Deep fear, is it... ...s towards the Left side of the Hall;’ President has ‘broken three bells in succession, ’—claps on his hat, as signal that the country is near ruined. ... ...the reader. For the Romme Calendar, in so many Newspapers, Memoirs, Public Acts, has stamped itself deep into that section of Time: a 165 Thomas Carl... ...does by small Volition and great Necessity, verily issue,—in such and such succession; destructive so and so, self-destructive so and so: till it end.... ...ad. Thouret like- wise, ci-devant President, father of Constitutional Law- acts; he whom we heard saying, long since, with a loud voice, “The Constitu... ...not so. Alas, there is yet but the first-act finished; three or four other acts still to come; and an uncertain catastro- phe! A huge City holds in it...

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...sink on the pillow. I waited for a little and again knocked three times in succession. Tyeglev sat up again and listened. I tapped again. I was lying ... ...the following, apparently insignificant, circumstance: for two mornings in succession his dog, sitting before the windows, had kept up a prolonged and... ...egor; but he had been sent to Siberia in the year 1797 for some “seditious acts and Jacobin tendencies” (those were the words of the accusation). Yego... ...ye, diamond-merchant, good-bye, good-bye,” Latkin drawled several times in succession, making a low bow, seeming delighted at having at last got hold ... ...aying to one of the corners, crossing himself fer- vently several times in succession, tapping first one shoulder and then the other with his fingers ...

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...ut, two shots, a loud shout that was almost a scream, three shots in rapid succession and a splintering of wood. All these sounds were very clear and ... ...isputable quality, a dinner that should be followed by all that glittering succession of im- pressions the Music Halls of those days were so capable o... ... 163 H G Wells Then, having few words, he sought to express his thought in acts. He took a track half filled with chalk, lifted it, and flung it, smas... ...ments about him still. It was real, surely it was real—as real as spiteful acts! More real, for these great things, it may be, are the coming things, ...

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..., and offered by the pages and do- mestics who bore them, to each guest in succession, who cut from them such a portion as he pleased. Beside each per... ... and the independent nobles, who followed their 56 Ivanhoe example in all acts of tyranny, maintained against this devoted people a persecution of a ... ...ning his own faction in the king- dom, of which he proposed to dispute the succession, in case of the King’s death, with the legitimate heir, Arthur D... ...n, having little reason to desire the return of Richard to England, or the succession of Arthur, his legitimate heir. For the opposite reason, Prince ... ...mined by lot their order of precedence, were to shoot each three shafts in succession. The sports were regu- lated by an officer of inferior rank, ter... ...ion, and he glanced his eyes fiercely from one to another, as if the quick succession of so many injuries had prevented his replying to them in turn; ... ...!—it is irresistible—Watch and ward, knight and squire, foot and horse, it acts as a charm upon them all. I think, if they bring me out to be hanged t... ...re chiefly Front-de-Boeuf’s followers, hated by the English for a thousand acts of insolence and oppression.” “The better,” said De Bracy; “the rugged... ...rding to the text, Auferte malum ex vobis. For various and heinous are the acts of transgression against the rule of our blessed Order in this lamenta...

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...consideringly disposed, something told him, here was occupation enough for a succession of days. It may be added, in summary fashion, that the imagina... ...r Miss Stackpole? Never in the world. Isabel Archer has acted on me—yes; she acts on every one. But I’ve been absolutely passive.” “You’re too passive... ... her to a clamorous world wherever she might be? After breakfast she wrote a succession of letters, as those arriving for her appeared innumerable: he... ...ing of a friendship than their meeting had been. “I’m going to six places in succession, but I shall see no one I like so well as you. They’ll all be ... ...sentiment which proved usually to have been a blank. She performed all those acts of mental prostration in which, on a first visit to Italy, youth and ... ...ed, too everything. She’s too complete, in a word. I confess to you that she acts on my nerves and that I feel about her a good deal as that intensely... ...r I suppose he’d behave like a gentleman. The Countess jerked herself into a succession of attitudes. “Do you mean as most gentlemen behave? That woul... ...ate. She had wanted to see life, and fortune was serving her to her taste; a succession of fine gentlemen going down on their knees to her would do as ...

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... his temper is wonderfully even, and he per- forms, as a matter of course, acts on which most men would plume themselves. In short, if I do not love h... ...rudence of the wife who guards her family from destruction through its own acts? One calcula- tion or a thousand, what matter, if the decision no long... ...or he might drown himself in a pond. A mother’s life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but ha...