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...any, with every external furtherance, it is of such internal quality as to set Neglect at defiance.... A work,” concludes the well-nigh enthusiastic R... ...ho am I; what is this me? A Voice, a Motion, an Appearance;—some embodied, visualized Idea in the Eter- nal Mind? Cogito, ergo sum. Alas, poor Cogitat... ...ad alone, were it screwed off, and (like the Doctor’s in the Arabian Tale) set in a basin to keep it alive, could prosecute without shadow of a heart,... ... I could reach by climb- ing, or still more easily if Father Andreas would set up the pruning-ladder, my porringer was placed: there, many a sunset, h... ...s say, What moneys, in Literature and Shoeblacking, are realized by actual Instruction and actual jet Polish; what by ficti- tious-persuasive Proclama... ...ngs, in this so surprising world, strike me with more surprise. Two little visual Spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst ... ... existence; would admit him to be a living object; or even failing this, a visual object, or thing that will reflect rays of light. Your silver or you... ... carried home the work in triumph, expecting to find in it some particular instruction in regard to the tying of their neckcloths, or the cut of their...

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...ink it had been bought out of an exhibition, with the pieces numbered, and set up again.” And they had proceeded to enumerate, with humorous preci- si... ...legend to crystallize about it, and after a time the Boynes had laughingly set the matter down to their profit-and-loss account, agreeing that Lyng wa... ... brary. But the library was still empty, and with an unwonted precision of visual memory she immediately observed that the papers on her husband’s des... ...t vain preamble,—in the manner of a man who has his watch in his hand,—had set forth the object of his visit. He had “run over” to England on business... ...the Lunch Club has reached such a pass that it has to go to Fanny Roby for instruction on a subject like Xingu, it had almost better cease to exist!” ... ...ld French print, in its narrow black frame, faced her on the landing. This visual continuity was intolerable. Within, a gaping chasm; without, the sam...

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...detract. Mr. Pericles grimaced bitterly at any claim to excellence be- ing set up for the mysterious voice in the woods. T apping one forefinger on th... ... too deeply impressed to pursue their play with him. Real emotions at once set aside the semi-credence they had given to their own suggestions. “Hush!... ...ough they could discern nothing save the glimmer of the instrument and one set of fingers caressing it. How she viewed their rather impertinent advanc... ...rrid edge between a false laugh and a starting blush, Arabella said: “That visual excommunication has been pronounced years ago, Freshfield.” “Ah! the... ...ou seen what a nature it is? You have not alluded to her beyond answers to instructions, but her character can- not have escaped you. I am never mista... ...lously eyed any chance person promenading the neighbourhood. She wrote for instructions concerning this gentleman calling himself Sir Purcell Barrett,... ...a. Hitherto Emilia had refused to sing, and Madame Marini, faithful to her instructions, had never allowed her to be pressed to sing. Emilia would bro...

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...at Nobility was not the simple thing he had at first supposed it to be, he set himself in a mood only slightly disconcerted to the discovery of Nobili... ...d upon him, as it did, that one cannot be noble, so to speak, in vacuo, he set himself to discover a Noble Society. He began with simple beliefs and f... ...ltogether, and adopt some such phrase as The Larger Life. Once it was Life Set Free. He had fallen away more and more from nearly everything that one ... ... of bread-and-butter, reported on the day’s weather, stood deferential for instructions. “You will be going out for lunch, sir. V ery good, sir. White... ...being discussed about him, a most difficult language demanding new sets of visual images because of its strange alphabet. Is it any wonder that for a ...

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... and I wished, too, to do justice to the flattering latitude of my owners’ instructions contained in one noble phrase: “W e leave it to you to do the ... ...ged to look rather more sleepy than before. “In accordance with my owners’ instructions,” I explained. “Y ou have had their letter, of course?” By tha... ...in precise and incisive tones that I had called in obedience to my owners’ instructions. “Oh! Y es. H’m! I didn’t understand what that fool was say- i... ...f tone: “There’s only my girl there.” 25 Joseph Conrad It is difficult to set everything down in due order; so I must revert here to what happened a ... ...e became of age to 29 Joseph Conrad put her hair up I don’t think she has set foot outside that gar- den once. She must be over eighteen now.” Thus m... ...n this infernal hole of a port!” Before I had uttered my last words we had set off at a swing- ing pace. We turned a couple of corners and entered a s... ...lot of potatoes. My bargain with all its remotest associations, mental and visual—the garden of flowers and scents, the girl with her provoking contem...

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...o her own room and shut the door, leaving me alone on the verandah with my instructions. Long before the brig’s sails were furled, Jasper came up thre... ... calmed him so? Y et these were the very things one must believe which had set his imagination ablaze—if love begins in imagination. But I am no man t... ...d a surly way of casting side glances without mov- ing his head, which was set low on a short, round neck. A thick, round trunk in a dark undress jack... ...asper Allen in the future. He emitted an earnest “Thank God!” which nearly set me laughing again, but he did not brighten up proportionately. It seeme... ... looking up to heaven. And very soon after dinner was over, mindful of his instructions, he declared that it was time for him to go on board his ship.... ...high red roof of the bungalow crowning the very smallest of them all. This visual reminiscence was profoundly disturbing. I knocked at the door with a...

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...duty, Darrow had had time to feel her safe in the custody of his devotion, set apart for some inevitable hour; and the last evening, at the theatre, b... ...pins and a glass would have restored her self-possession... The reflection set him wondering whether the “sheltered” girl’s bringing-up might not unfi... ...ace fall at this re- minder of the change in her prospects, he hastened to set forth his plan. As he did so, he saw how easy it was to explain things ... ... all broad wet washes of white and blue; but Darrow again noticed that her visual sensitiveness was less keen than her feeling for what he was sure th... ...e showed her all intent on the same thought as himself. He transmitted his instructions with mechanical precision, and she answered in the same tone, ... ...gnation died down, and all her consciousness resolved itself into the mere visual sense that he was there before her, near enough for her to lift her ... ... but only, if possible, to learn from her where Owen was. With these brief instructions Miss Painter had started out; but she was a woman of many occu... ...ant to be away for some time, and he presently asked her if she would give instructions about packing and sending after him some winter clothes he had...

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... her hand, and she leaned towards the children, absorbed in the passion of instruction. She heard, but did not notice the click of the door. Sud- denl... ...burdened to death with consciousness.’ ‘Imprisoned within a limited, false set of concepts,’ he cried. But she took no notice of this, only went on wi... ...is: you want the lie that will match the rest of your furniture.’ Hermione set hard and poisonous against this attack. Ursula stood covered with wonde... ...kin stopped short. A spasm of anger and chagrin went over Ursula. His face set. And he bade good-bye, as if he had ceased to notice her. They were gon... ...s brows in sudden exasperation. ‘Don’t you see that it’s not a question of visual apprecia- tion in the least,’ he cried. ‘I don’t want to see you. I’... ...ed. ‘Y es,’ he said, ‘you are invisible to me, if you don’t force me to be visually aware of you. But I don’t want to see you or hear you.’ ‘What did ... ... than a visible object, Gerald was aware of him completely, but not really visually. Whereas Gerald himself was concrete and noticeable, a piece of pu...

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... Hawthorne, given in ‘Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife,’ his daily life is set forth. The letter is dated June 1, 1851. ‘Since you have been here I ha... ... platform. Our author’s tendency to philosophical discussion is strikingly set forth in a letter from Dr. Titus Munson Coan to the latter’s mother, wr... ...ase. True to his ruling passion, philosophy had claimed him to the last, a set of Schopenhauer’s works receiving his atten- tion when able to study; b... ...on, they burn, slaughter, and destroy, according to the tenor of writ- ten instructions, and sailing away from the scene of devas- tation, call upon a... ...tly met had the hollow of his eyes tattooed in two regular squares and his visual organs being remarkably brilliant, they gleamed forth from out this ...

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...Introduction: Recently I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a book, but at the suggestion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in ...

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...INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION RECENTLY I set myself to put down what I believe. I did this with no idea of making a ... ...h them as constant difficulties. I will only instance one trifling case of visual deception in order to lead to my next question. One draws two lines ... ...s included some of the more elementary aspects of psychology and logic and set me thinking and reading fur- ther. From the first, Logic as it was pres... ...u know them well enough you will find an individual differ- ence even in a set of machine-made chairs—and it is only because we do not possess minds o... ...is libel. The artistic method in this field of beliefs, as in the field of visual renderings, is one of great freedom and initiative and great poverty... ...te child. It must intervene between all who would keep their children from instruction in the business of citizenship and the lessons of fraternity. I...

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...topia conscientiously resumed. The entertainment before you is neither the set drama of the work of fiction you are accustomed to read, nor the set le... ...lism there, in numbers the same—only, as I say, with an entirely different set of traditions, ideals, ideas, and purposes, and so moving under those d... ...r terrestrial experience that whenever economic and political developments set a class free to travel, that class at once be- gins to travel; in Engla... ... a well-oiled engine beside a scrap- heap. It has even got this confounded visual organ swivelling about in the most alert and lively fashion. But tha... ...servation, inquiry and experiment were far more important factors than any instruction, or rather perhaps the instruction I received was less even tha...

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...get, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old no tions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must b... ...t hereafter be the subjects of his discourses.” Melesigenes consented, and set out with his pa tron, “examining all the curiosities of the countries ... ...at he wrote memoirs of all that he deemed worthy of preservation. Hav ing set sail from Tyrrhenia and Iberia, they reached Ithaca. Here Melesigenes, ... ... testifies his gratitude to Phemius, who had given him both sustenance and instruction.” His celebrity continued to increase, and many persons ad vis... ...ies will become matter for the surprise and entertainment, rather than the instruction, of posterity. Nor can I help thinking that the literary histor... ...r repentant rarely won, Afflicts the chief, to avenge his giant son, Whose visual orb Ulysses robb’d of light; Great Polypheme, of more than mortal mi... ...wift decay The wealth of kings, and made my youth a prey. But now the wise instructions of the sage, And manly thoughts inspired by manly age, Teach m... ... a distinguish’d mark, and cried aloud: “E’en he who, sightless, wants his visual ray May by his touch alone award the day: Thy signal throw transcend... ... Urged my some present god, they swift let fall The pointed torment on his visual ball. Myself above them from a rising ground Guide the sharp stake, ...

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...should run their ship upon them.” —Schouten’ s Sixth Circumnavigation. “We set sail from the Elbe, wind N.E. in the ship called The Jonas-in-the-Whale... ...inity of London and elsewhere may recollect having seen large curved bones set upright in the earth, either to form arches over gateways, or entrances... ...nded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water th... ...vision is imperfect; they are short-sighted; what use, then, to strain the visual nerve? They have left their opera-glasses at home. “Why, thou monkey... ...s, as the vein is pre- sumed to expand or contract); but never exceeds the visual sweep from the whale-ship’s mast-heads, when circumspectly gliding a... ...r devils, cringed, and some of them fawned before him; in obedience to his instructions, sometimes rendering him personal homage, as to a god. Such th... ...s. A curious and most puzzling question might be started con- cerning this visual matter as touching the Leviathan. But I must be content with a hint....

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... to me the most dangerous of the lot. I saw him sideface and his lips were set very tight. I had never looked at mankind in that light before. When on... ...ut of the night close to a cast iron lamp-post. It was the quay side. They set down their load in the light and honest Ted asked hoarsely: “Where’s yo... ...hony” being produced in connection with nothing less recondite than a sun- set. And little Fyne never failed to add “The son of Carleon Anthony, the p... ...And the disclosure which so often rewards a moment of detachment from mere visual impressions gave me a thrill very much ap- proaching a shudder. I se... ...be, I feared, since, for me, that idea was inseparably associated with the visual impression of Fyne. Where, why, how, a rapid striding rush could be ... ...g; and (you know how one’s memory gets suddenly stimulated) I was reminded visually, with an almost painful distinctness, of the ghostly white 104 Ch... ...on deck yet. I want you to stay down here till I come back. There are some instructions I want to give you.” And before the young man could answer, An... ...wer, Anthony had dis- appeared in the stern-cabin, burdened and exulting. “Instructions,” commented Mr. Powell. “That was all right. V ery likely; but... ...nted Mr. Powell. “That was all right. V ery likely; but they would be such instructions as, I thought to myself, no ship’s officer perhaps had ever be...

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...wever, she seemed to have a short cut for getting back to cheerfulness and set her face to signify archness. ‘It wouldn’t do, Mr Oak. I want somebody ... ...cally. If report spoke truly they were as hardy, merry, thriving, wicked a set as any in the whole county. Oak resolved to sleep at Weatherbury that n... ...ts into the form of feeling, and its feelings into the form of commotion — set to work with a remarkable confusion of purpose. ‘Stop the draught under... ...n of her from a distance, and the absence of social intercourse with her — visual familiarity, oral strangeness. The smaller human elements were kept ... ...ces which this man of the woods had introduced into his wares. Leaving her instructions with Gabriel and Maryann, that they were to see ev erything c...

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...ere described, the papers now pre- sented to the public, like many another set of papers nomi- nally published, were not so in any substantial sense. ... ...se of a laboring man, the father of a favorite female servant. The sun had set when she returned, in the company of this servant, through mead- ows re... ...d have reversed his sentence? But the consequences were distressing. A new set of characters in every act brought with it the necessity of a new plot;... ... Greenhay; and to him we went over daily, for the benefit of his classical instructions. One sole cotton factory had then risen along the line of Oxfo... ...e half of his mouth, whilst he sang with the other half, had given me some instructions in the art of chanting; and, as to my brother, he, the hundred... ...ly described amongst many other modes of cryptical communication, oral and visual, spoken, written, or symbolic. And, as the bishop does not speak of ... ...temptible coin, received, in a network purse, six glittering guineas, with instructions to put three immediately into Mr. H——’s hands, and the others ... ...hould rather indicate that the sounds were not su- pernatural, since, if a visual object, falling under hyper-physi- cal or cata-physical laws, loses ...

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... B A L A H 26 However, we must make sure we are studying in the right path of instruction, otherwise the opposite result may be achieved: the more w... ...oks,” or “Torah,” from the Hebrew word Ohr (light) Ohr (light) Ohr and Hora’a (instruction), meaning instructions for entering the spiritual world. T... ...tly. The spiritual world is attained from below upward. But in order for this instruction to be suitable for everyone, Kabbalists wrote it from Abov... ...ith the Creator, phases of closeness to the Creator. The goal that the Creator set for us is that while being in this world, we will work on ourselve... ...d understand the universe. • Allow Creation the freedom of choice. The Creator set up these conditions in a gradual process. The prob- lem is that as ... ...ifferent names and a high- er spiritual degree. The male and female states are set in each of the 125 degrees. If that is the case, then how should m... ...ituals. Drawings or pictures of the worlds, Sefirot, or Gima- tria, are simply visual aids. The essence of the wisdom of Kabbalah is the individual e...

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...p wind out of a long-closed vault, the door of which has accidentally been set, ajar—here comes Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon! Forth she steps into the dusky... ...ss the ceiling, panelled with dark wood, and having a large chimney-piece, set round with pictured tiles, but now closed by an iron fire- board, throu... ... about to renew the enterprise of that departed wor- thy, with a different set of customers. Who could this bold adventurer be? And, of all places in ... ...d departed. “Who can it be?” thought Hepzibah, who had been screw- ing her visual organs into the acutest focus of which they were capable. “The girl ... ... Take your purse, with money in it, and come along!” Hepzibah obeyed these instructions, as if nothing else were to be done or thought of. She began t...

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...il! T rue, and it must be done. Ministers were authoritatively summoned to set to work immediately. They replied that they had been at work all the ti... ...bed his writing, ‘Messieurs les Colo- nels de la Garde Imperiale.’ This he set down. The point was that a stand must be made against the flood of sarc... ... odds. Nevil attempted to beg them off because of their boldness. ‘I don’t set my traps for nothing,’ said his uncle, silencing him. But the boy refle... ...’s until some of the apparatus of an Institute for literary and scientific instruction revealed itself to him, and he heard Mr. T omlinson exalt the m... ... he had enough of canvassing. But he was not suf- fered to escape. For his instruction, for his positive and ex- treme good, Beauchamp determined that... ... of Beauchamp: ‘Not a stiver; purity of election is the first condition of instruction to the people! Principles! Then they’ve got a capital orator: T... ... Rosamund Culling had a whole collection of photographs of him, equal to a visual history of his growth in chapters, from boyhood to midshipmanship an...

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...ditions; of Chateaus in the West, especially of Charter-chests, Chartiers, set on fire; for there too the overloaded Ass frightfully recalcitrates. Of... ...uld ye but have understood it: hunt them out, as if they were wild wolves; set fire to their Chateaus and Chartiers as to wolf- dens; and what then? W... ...ne thing, what a multitude of low-lying figures are sifted to the top, and set busily to work there! Dogleech Marat, now for-seen as Simon Stylites, w... ...in Mesmerean Cagliostric Occult- Philosophy, has inspired them to jot down instructions and predictions for a much-straitened King. To whom, by Higher... ...his day present it; and save the Monarchy and World. Unaccountable pair of visual-objects! Ye should be men, and of the Eighteenth Century; but your m... ...nstables have shut the Thespian barn, and her Antony pleaded in vain? Such visual spectra flit across this Earth, if the Thespian Stage be rudely inte... ...rom home, in the interim, over to Montmedi. These are of the Phenomena, or visual Appearances, of this wide-working terrestrial world: which truly is ...