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...oes—now, unhappily, ruined by resto- ration—is untroubled by the snares of anatomy and perspective. Could anything be more majestic, more pathetic, be... ... could worship him and love him, would he but trans- late his visions into human words, and his experi- ences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; c... ..., are flimsy things; whereas Lucy would be his parishioner. Lucy, with one eye upon the weather, finally said that she thought the Emersons were nice;... ...terary hacks are shameless creatures. I believe there’s no se- cret of the human heart into which we wouldn’t pry.” She marched cheerfully to the foun... ...t her. We had a long talk yesterday. She believes in justice and truth and human interest. She told me also that she has a high opinion of the destiny... ... incidents of her streets? Was there more in her frank beauty than met the eye—the power, perhaps, to evoke passions, good and bad, and to bring them ... ...had ascended it, that diligent and rather obscure master, possibly with an eye to business, possibly for the joy of ascending. Standing there, he had ... ...ople sat in the room. One—a boy of nineteen—was studying a small manual of anatomy, and peering occasionally at a bone which lay upon the piano. From ...

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... and had just got his head on one side for a good purchase on it, when his eye fell on me, and he saw that my bread-and-butter was gone. The wonder an... ...able-cloth, with the table in my chest, and the Pumblechookian elbow in my eye, nor because I was not allowed to speak (I didn’ t want to speak), nor ... ...on that we might be truly grateful. Upon which my sister fixed me with her eye, and said, in a low reproachful voice, “Do you hear that? Be grateful.”... ...h the ridgy effect of a wedding-ring, pass- ing unsympathetically over the human countenance.) When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean ... ...quaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone. I never have been so surp... ...t off upon me. I am very sorry to see it, and it’s a – it’ s a bad side of human nature. I did intend to ask you to use any little opportunities you m... ...sorry to see this in you, Biddy,” I repeated. “It’s a – it’s a bad side of human na- ture.” “Whether you scold me or approve of me,” returned poor Bid...

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...lf. The syllabus that he read on the notice-board stunned him; lectures on anatomy , lectures on pathology , lectures on physi- ology, lectures on pha... ...s bristling in the cold morning wind. The flat country stretched as far as eye could see, and the tufts of trees round the farms at long intervals see... ...lours, that, darker in the centre, grew paler towards the sur- face of the eye. His own eyes lost themselves in these depths; he saw himself in miniat... ...e put her linen in order for her in the presses, and taught her to keep an eye on the butcher when he brought the meat. Emma put up with these lessons... ...a of having begotten a child delighted him. Now he wanted nothing. He knew human life from end to end, and he sat down to it with serenity. Emma at fi... ... quite unbearable companions. But from the general background of all these human faces Emma’s stood out isolated and yet farthest off; for between her... ...ntinued the chemist, “it doesn’t concern me. It’ s for your sake, for pure humanity! I should like to see you, my friend, rid of your hideous caudicat...

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...s for the convales- cent, and with the ornaments likely to please a girl’s eye, she suddenly broke into a little irrepressible cry of joy and de- ligh... ...print on the walls, every ornament on the brackets, seemed to speak to her eye and to her soul both at once, and the sense of comfort and beauty and h... ...wn sounds of arrival, and darted down stairs, meeting indeed the welcoming eye and smile; but “Ah, here she is!” was said so hoarsely and feebly, that... ...and more frightful—of con- vulsive cocks and hysterical hens, mingled with human scufflings and hushes and snortings and snigglings that made the elde... ...rear, half-frightened, and a good deal distressed, and could not, for very humanity’s sake, be left behind. “And after all,” thought Mary, as peals of... ...ery turbid.” “For shame, Clara.” “Well, Mary, you must allow something for human nature’s reluctance to be treated as something not quite worthy of a ... ...e groups of children, illustrating Wordsworth’s poems. She had been taught anatomy enough to make her work superior to that of most women, and Mr. Act...

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...was curious to observe in what a strange procession they passed before the eye. Emporiums of splendid dresses, the materials brought from every quarte... ...y handle, and with it laid open one side of his antagonist’s face from the eye to the lip. He saw the gash; knew that the mare had darted off at a wil... ...ntrance of a third party—the individual in question— who, bringing his one eye (for he had but one) to bear on Ralph Nickleby , made a great many sham... ...m- plete answer to those who contend for the gradual degenera- tion of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the ... ...w that it’s a hanging matter—and I an’ t quite certain whether it an’ t an anatomy one besides—to walk off with up’ards of the valley of five pound fr... ...as she cottoned to this chap. What’ s my return? What’s come of my milk of human kindness? It turns into curds and whey when I look at him.’ ‘Well it ... ...uel to the fire of youth. The waiter was touched. Waiter as he was, he had human passions and feelings, and he looked very hard at Miss Squeers as he ... ...moderate allowance of brandy- and-water, most wise men conversant with the anatomy and functions of the human frame will consider that it ought to hav...

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....” Nor did Ethel know that that caricature had been the cause of the black eye that Harry had brought home last summer. Harry returned, to protest tha... ...tch her cradle by, No blight is on her slumbers found, No touch of harmful eye. —Lyra Innocentium SUCH a strange sad Sunday! No going to ... ...papa,” she could hardly answer, and a large drop gath- ered slowly in each eye, long in coming, as if the heart ached too much for them to flow freely... ...e much evil arise in the best-planned in- stitutions; nay, in what are not human. Don’t you think we ought to do our utmost to have no flaw in the fou... ...e. I will not say there are none, for that would be answering too much for human nature, or that they are fanciful—for that would be as little comfort... ... airy form soon caught my eye; Its texture frail, and colour various, Like human hopes, and life precarious. Sudden, my second caught my ear, And fill... ...says he makes a scientific study of gossip, as a new branch of comparative anatomy), found out from the Clevelands that Mr. Esdaile meant to retire, a...

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...onged look at him. “Very well, thanks,” said he, grinning and avoiding her eye. “Sit down, Byron,” said the doctor. Byron suddenly forgot how to sit d... ...he lightest tone of which a piece of ebony would have appeared pale. Not a human being was stirring within a mile of Moncrief House, the chimneys of w... ...n pirate, and achieve eminence in that profes- sion by adding a chivalrous humanity to the ruder virtues for which it is already famous. Cashel waited... ...ds; leaves rustling, grasshoppers chirp- ing, and birds singing; but not a human voice or footstep. She began to think that the god-like figure was on... ...erself that she was not thoroughly a lady; but she felt that Lydia, in the eye of a stranger, would answer that description better than she. Still, as... ...id he. “Perhaps—” Here he broke down, and looked at Alice to avoid Lydia’s eye. Then they went out to- gether. When they had walked some distance in s... ...s a calling or occupation of some kind. I fancy it means a demonstrator of anatomy. However, it does not matter.” “Where did you meet with it?” “Mr. B...

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...ble with—what was the expression you used?—with your full development as a human being: I think that was how you put the Ibsenist view—our view. So I ... ...o your duty, and ac- cept your notice. JULIA. Never! We are engaged in the eye of—the eye of— CHARTERIS (sitting down quickly beside her). Y es, Julia... ...tting down quickly beside her). Y es, Julia. Can’ t you get it out? In the eye of something that advanced women don’t believe in, en? JULIA (throwing ... ...rtson wears his fur collared overcoat, which, with his vigilant, irascible eye, piled up hair, and the honorable earnestness with which he takes him- ... ...A guinea pig’s convenience is set above the health and lives of the entire human race. CUTHBERTSON (vehemently). It’s not ignorance or super- stition,... ...yes, it’s very easy for you to talk, Paramore. But what am I to say to the Humanitarian societ- ies and the Vegetarian societies that have made me a V... ...anatomical preparations, with a framed photograph of Rembrandt’s School of Anatomy hanging on the wall above it. In front, a little to the right, a te...

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...s own way right. The wide differences in character and quality between one human being and another may quite conceivably involve not only differences ... ...of no practical importance what- ever, which make such disastrous waste of human energy. Now the point of view which will be displayed in relation to ... ...in my mind, lies in attaching pre-eminent importance to certain aspects of human life, and in subordi- nating systematically and always, all other con... ...s a consequence, one finds, I am told, a skilled operative already with no eye (or only an an- gry eye) for tips, sociable shopmen, and shareholding f... ...f fairly systematic inquiry knows remarkably little. Save for some general anatomy, it is impossible to teach school-children anything true about the ... ...tem of hereditary rulers in a state, looking at the thing entirely with an eye to the mak- ing of a greater mankind in the world? How does it compare ... ...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... ...l man working that problem out upon purely materialistic lines and with an eye to all physiological and pathological peculiarities. The Tasmanians (no... ...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...

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..................................................................... 247 THE HUMAN ADVENTURE .............................................................. ...teen years 11 H. G . Wells ago. It shows the flight of the first piece of human machin- ery heavier than air that ever kept itself up for any length ... ...to the lightest side wind. A sneeze might upset it. We contrasted our poor human equipment with the instinctive balance of a bird, which has had ten m... ... I am never quite happy in a car now; I can’t help keeping an apprehensive eye ahead. But you fly with an exhilarating assurance that you cannot possi... ...till flourishes, a most valuable summary of fact and theory in comparative anatomy, called Rolleston’s “Forms of Animal Life.” I figure to myself a si... ...y distinguished himself, and who did not stand for something in the public eye, would have a chance of election. There alone we have a sufficient reas... ...wires, telephone connections, tracks of various sorts, but to the European eye these are mere scratchings on a virgin surface. An empty wilderness man...

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..., of the commonplace and the out-of-the-way, of popular verve and polished humanism, of mother-wit and learning, of baseness and nobility, of personal... ...eins, so to speak, of our literature. The art that addresses itself to the eye had likewise its share of this coarseness. Think of the sculptures on t... ... mass of laborious trifling and cold-blooded exaggerations but a satire on human life of the highest genius? Still there are points common to the two.... ...cation of the Edict of Nantes—is excellent. They are pretty volumes to the eye, but, as in all the reprints of the seventeenth century, the text is fu... ...ou would have found within it a heavenly and inestimable drug, a more than human understanding, an admirable virtue, matchless learning, invincible co... ...mstresses (when the point of their needle (Besongner du cul, Englished The eye of the needle.) was broken) began to work and occupy with the tail. The... ...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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...he took up women’s cases at double the fees. Cutler himself worked hard at anatomy to find some- thing fresh to operate on; and at last he got hold of... ...ossible. WALPOLE. I tell you, blood-poisoning. Ninety-five per cent of the human race suffer from chronic blood-poisoning, and die of it. It’s as simp... ...he knighthood. Good-bye. B. B. [stopping at the door, with the beam in his eye twinkling a little] By the way, who’s your patient? RIDGEON. Who? B. B.... ... Sir Ralph comes from the inner room and hastens between them, 71 GB Shaw humanely concerned, but professionally elate and communica- tive. B. B. Ah,... ...ept that you are to hang my pictures at the one-man show. I can trust your eye. You wont let anyone else touch them. MRS DUBEDAT. You can trust me. LO... ...ntly; for B. B.’s feeling, absurdly expressed as it is, is too sincere and humane to be ridiculed] Yes, B. B. Death makes people go on like that. I do...

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...se and imagination and common language to that of opinion and reflection the human mind was ex posed to many dangers, and often ‘Found no end in wand... ... ing religious thought of the later works of Plato. 19 Sophist – Plato The human mind is a sort of reflection of this, hav ing ideas of Being, Same... ...nides, the Sophist stands in a less defined and more remote relation. There human thought is in process of disorganization; no absurdity or inconsist... ..., and alter the proportions of figures, in order to adapt their works to the eye. And the Sophist also uses illusions, and his imitations are apparent... ...him in the notion, seem to be never really concrete; they are a metaphysical anatomy , not a living and thinking substance. Though we are reminded by ... ...n to both the corporeal and incorporeal, and which they have in their mind’s eye when they say of both of them that they ‘are.’ Perhaps they may be in... ... being, is also dark from excess of light; for the souls of the many have no eye which can endure the vision of the divine. THEAETETUS: Y es; that see...

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... conceit. That was essentially a woman’s book. She saw with a woman’s keen eye, and described with a woman’s light but graphic pen, the social defects... ...ts than Boston. But as I have said, it is not specially interesting to the eye; what new town, or even what simply adult town, can be so? There is an ... ...f brilliant colors. These aprons at first I confess seemed tawdry; but the eye soon becomes 33 Trollope used to bright colors, in carriage aprons as ... ...t the slave—a slave well treated, and fattened up to the full endurance of humanity, but yet a slave. From Gorham we went on to Island Pond, a station... ...s aptitude for good is so finite that he cannot see and comprehend a wider humanity. He can hardly bring himself to under- stand that salvation should... ...iling, and that, when once turned on, it cannot be turned off again by any human energy. Everything is done by a new and wonderful patent contrivance;... ...s, and bones, till the animal was a heap of atoms, and assured me that the anatomy of the horse throughout was one of the neces- sary studies of the p...

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..., the reason ings by which he establishes the existence of God and of the Human Soul, which are the foundations of his Metaphysic; in the fifth, the ... ...ustomed to think lowly enough of myself, and although when I look with the eye of a philosopher at the varied courses and pursuits of mankind at large... ...rity of the streets, one is disposed to allege that chance rather than any human will guided by reason must have led DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD 9 to suc... ..., must be incompara bly superior to that of every other. And, to speak of human affairs, I believe that the pre eminence of Sparta was due not to the... ...at I am about to say on this subject, I advise those who are not versed in anatomy, before they commence the perusal of these observations, to take th... ...e very arrangement of the parts, which may be observed in the heart by the eye alone, and from the heat which may be felt with the fingers, and from t...

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...abour and expenditure, of which the direct effect and object are, to endow human or other animated beings with faculties or qualities useful or agreea... ... that the first principles of all sciences belong to the philosophy of the human mind. The observation is just; and the first principles of all scienc... ...he three laws of motion, and the law of gravitation, are common, as far as human observation has yet extended, to all matter; and these, therefore, as... ...d from the art. This science stands in the same relation to the social, as anatomy and physiology to the physical body. It shows by what principles of... ...ing confident, that whatever he has carefully contemplated with his mind’s eye he has seen correctly; but no one can be sure that there is not somethi...

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...terest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity. But that is pre- cisely what we have done. And the more appalling... ...be proved against him, is to go wildly beyond the ascertained strain which human nature will bear. It is simply unscientific to allege or believe that... ...o be very fond of them, or even when, if you are not fond of them, you are human enough to forget every personal grudge before the spectacle of a fell... ...If machines were as cheap as frogs, engineers would not only be taught the anatomy of machines and the functions of their parts: they would also have ... ...good deal more: for instance, a cutthroat learns (and perhaps teaches) the anatomy of the carotid ar- tery and jugular vein; and there can be no quest...