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... Radnor’s clear-water eyes hardened to stony as their vision ran along the consequences of her having heard it. ‘Earlier this time!’ he added, thrumme... ...discomfort. But these good friends about him stood for the country, an il- logical country; and as he could not well attack his host Vic- tor Radnor, ... ...ey are packed with contrasts: they are full of sentiment, they are sharply logical; free-thinkers, devo- tees; affectionate, ferocious; frivolous, ten... ...s excessive and satiric, not to be read by the letter of his words: and in consequence, she could bear the lash from him, and tell her soul that he ov... ...ons might be summoned to rise for freedom, and strike a line to make their logically estimable sequence from a source not honourable before the public... ...an end she dreaded, impressed her physically; so far subduing her mind, in consequence, as to keep the idea of absolute resistance obscure, though her... ...ntly, later than usual, he performed his usual men- tal penance for it. In consequence, the wrath, and the wish, and the penitence, haunted him, each ... ...ed, the very argumentative, crashing, arrogant, pedantic, dogmatic, philo- logical German gentleman, Dr. Gannius, reeking of the T eu- tonic Professor... ...hey were so fa- tigued that sleep appeared to their minds the compensating logical deduction. Miss Dorothea suppressed a yawn, and inflicted it upon M...
...nrolled them- selves; and meanwhile the wheezy little pew-opener—partly in consequence of her infirmity, and partly that the marriage party might not ... ...most fiercely; ‘and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don’t undo it. Louisa, please to give... ...id. He might have been black as well as blue, and it would have been of no consequence to her. The perseverance with which she walked out of Princess’... ...atience. Impatience for the time to come, when his visions of their united consequence and grandeur would be triumphantly re- alized. Some philosopher... ... driest twigs of boys, under the frostiest circumstances. Nature was of no consequence at all. No matter what a young gentleman was intended to bear, ... ...that the Instrument-maker must have van- ished of his own accord; to which logical conclusion he was assisted by the letter addressed to himself, whic...
...account, but not to his prejudices. But if, with the same undefiledness of consequences to himself, a gentle- man could also sin by deputy, how shocki... ... Humanity, and in a Way which would Seem to Show Him to Be One of the Most Logical of Optimists YEARS AGO, a grave American savan, being in London, ob... ...erfully made. At least, something like this is claimed for certain psycho- logical novelists; nor will the claim be here disputed. Yet, as touching th... ...n the cradling would be such as almost to toss him back whence he came. In consequence, one less inexperienced, essaying repose on the uppermost shelf... ...t, with the reason for giv- ing, is the mark of a philosopher; just as the consequence is the penalty of a fool. A sick philosopher is incurable.” “Wh... ...I would not, indeed, hastily affirm of them that they are aware of the sad consequences to the public. Homicides and murderers, some call those contri... ...o loves not bread, dotes not on dough. As little of your man-child as your logical arrangements will admit.” “Anew regard the man-child,” with inspire... ...m—passes now in puzzled review. Fain, in his disfavor, would he make out a logical case. The doctrine of analogies recurs. Fallacious enough doctrine ... ...t to the trap, or the backwoodsman’s mislead him into ambuscade, there are consequences to be undergone, but no self-blame. As with the ‘possum, insti...
...mmediately to the point was the ques- tion of that supplement of situation logically involved in our gentleman’s impulse to deliver himself in the Par... ...ke the gentlemen who audit ledgers, he must keep his head at any price. In consequence of all which, for the interest of the matter, I might seem here... ...g for him, would have been then, on behalf of my man of imagination, to be logically and, as the artless craft of 9 Henry James comedy has it, “led u... ...ibi- tion was to be a muddle; if I could only by implication and a show of consequence make other persons tell each other about him, I could at least ... ..., in essence, Strether’s friend. She is the reader’s friend much rather—in consequence 17 Henry James of dispositions that make him so eminently requ... ... complete and functional scene, treat- ing all the submitted matter, as by logical start, logical turn, and logical finish) is discriminated preparati... ...that chamber resented by his condition. There he enjoyed at once the first consequence of their reunion. A place was too small for him after it that h... ...he had already adopted it. Pagan—yes, that was, wasn’t it? what Chad would logically be. It was what he must be. It was what he was. The idea was a cl... ...s. Newsome— was no more than salutary; but administered by Chad— and quite logically—it came nearer drawing blood. They hadn’t a low mind—nor any appr...
...case of the Sieur de Rubempre, whom Rastignac is setting up as a person of consequence,” said du Chatelet to the Secretary-General. “My dear Count,” r... ...t best that the loungers should go where they are to be found? What is the consequence? The gayest parts of the Boulevards, that delightfulest of prom... ...de Bauvan; for Ma- dame de Serizy told them the danger in which I stood in consequence of their allowing the source of their informa- tion to be guess... ...punity. At the death of Louis XVIII., Peyrade had not only ceased to be of consequence, but had lost the profits of his position as spy-in-ordinary to... ...ce to face with the Prefet, make your complaint, but as a man of political consequence, who will sooner or later be one of the motor powers of the hug... ...philanthropical romances; but the thief acts. He is as clear as a fact, as logical as a blow; and then his style! Another thing worth noting: the worl...
...d extermination of the Patriots, and the victory of established power; the consequences of legitimate despotism,—civil war, famine, plague, supersti- ... ...essed two remarkable qualities of intellect—a brilliant imagination, and a logical exactness of reason. His inclinations led him (he fancied) almost a... ...first scene of the fourth act Lucretia’s design in exposing herself to the consequences of an expostulation with Cenci after having administered the o... ...ief, rapid, irreversible, destroying _90 The consequence of what it cannot cure. Some such thing is to be endured or don... ...e light; Free as the earth-surrounding air; as firm As the world’s centre. Consequence, to me, _50 Is as the wind which stri... ... _80 Made it unutterable, and took from it All refuge, all revenge, all consequence, But that which thou hast called my father’s death? Which is or...
...r connected with a suppurated abscess that some boy had come home with, in consequence of his Y orkshire guide, philosopher, and friend, having ripped... ...ent, inasmuch as he had only acted upon it once, and had ruined himself in consequence. Mr Ralph Nickleby heard all this with a half-smile; and when t... ... one—that bore the impress of pity or compassion. Near to the jail, and by consequence near to Smithfield also, and the Compter, and the bustle and no... ... way , and it was supposed that these miraculous occurrences took place in consequence. And yet I hardly know how that could have been, either, becaus... ...alf-way up the troublesome flight of steps which leads to death’s door, in consequence of expo- sure to the cold. They were then regaled with a light ... ...ICKLEBY to advantage, she could not exactly remember. However, as she very logically remarked, there must have been some young person in that way of b... ...vailed upon to grant the promised interview. The last he held to be a very logical deduction from the premises, inasmuch as it was but natural to supp...
... strangle. However that may be, the good lady must have stepped with a circumspect foot over the thresh- old of this building. After the councilor had... ...dinal, pettishly, “seven.” Then, recol- lecting himself, “You understand, Bernouin,” added he, “that all this money is to be spent?” “Eh! monseigneur;... ...t an admirable thing chance is!” D’Artagnan pronounced these words with an indefin- able tone of feigned bonhomie, for he knew very well that the vict... ... England had come back to his old ally, William II. of Nassau, stadtholder of Holland. He learned also that the refusal of Louis XIV . had a little co... ...ich made Athos start. “Where do you wish us to go?” “Y ou shall see. A light! come, quickly!” “Y es, your honor. Does it please your honor that I shou... ...l resist, that you will fight, even; I know very well that you will prove the con- queror; but that amounts to rebellion, and you are an of- ficer you... ...ck as well as white. I will have Pierrefonds replastered in black; that’s all there is about it. If gray is handsome, you understand, my friend, black...
...swered D’Artagnan, who, reckoning upon entering into the king’s service in consequence of this recommendation, believed he could make this somewhat ha... ...e he is prejudiced by the cardinal. We will describe the thing to him as a consequence of the affair of yesterday, and the two will pass off together.... ...they entered D’Artagan’s chamber, it was empty; the landlord, dreading the consequences of the encounter 91 Alexandre Dumas which was doubtless about... ...in his apartment.” “But that will compromise me sadly, you know.” “Of what consequence? Nobody knows you. Besides, we are in a situation to overlook c... ...terest was almost foreign to this commencement of love, which had been the consequence of it. We say almost, for the idea that a young, handsome, kind... ...Amiens, Monsieur the Curate of Montdidier, and I are arguing certain theo- logical questions in which we have been much interested; I shall be delight...
... explanations founded rather upon conjecture and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to him. There is, however, one of these... ...ring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were submitte... ...t also.’ “ ‘Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.’ “ ‘Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.’ She smiled back at me, closed my door, and a... ...re found — never, Mary! Your affec tion for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gen... ...hem selves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province.” “And yet,” sa...
...s, and overthrow ing him out of his own mouth, or whether he is propounding consequences which would have been admitted by Zeno and Parmenides them ... ...ink that in visible objects you may easily show any num ber of inconsistent consequences.’ ‘Y es; and you should consider , not only the consequences... ...keness, motion, rest, genera tion, corruption, being and not being. And the consequences must include consequences to the things supposed and to othe... ...on on the negative as well as the positive hypothesis, with reference to the consequences which flow from the denial as well as from the assertion of ... ... is the object of these para doxes, some have answered that they are a mere logical puzzle, while others have seen in them an Hegelian propaedeutic o... ...en in two senses: Either one is one, Or , one has being, from which opposite consequences are deduced, 1.a. If one is one, it is nothing. 1.b. If one ... ...rocess is real, or in any way an assistance to thought, or , like some other logical forms, a mere figure of speech transferred from the sphere of mat...
... as we learn from the Memorabilia of Xenophon, first drew attention to the consequences of actions. Man- kind were said by him to act rightly when the... ...acknowledge that a large class of actions are made right or wrong by their consequences only; we say further that mankind are not too mindful, but tha... ... that mankind are not too mindful, but that they are far too regardless of consequences, and that they need to have the doctrine of utility habitually... ..., and the necessary foundation of that part of morals which relates to the consequences of actions, we still have to consider whether this or some oth... ...out entering on this wide field, even a superficial consider- ation of the logical and metaphysical works which pass under the name of Aristotle, whet... ...r of the other two, and in addition to them. SOCRATES: But do you see the consequence? 72 Philebus PROTARCHUS: To be sure I do. The consequence is,...
... regions of transcendental speculation back into the path of common sense. A logical or psy- chological phase takes the place of the doctrine of Ideas... ... ideal, in the de- lineation of which he is frequently interrupted by purely logical illustrations. The younger Socrates resembles his namesake in not... ...y the presence of Theodorus, the geometrician. There is political as well as logical insight in refusing to admit the division of mankind into Hellene... ...nd like rules might be extended to any art or science. But what would be the consequence? ‘The arts would utterly perish, and human life, which is bad... ... can tell?’ As in the Theaetetus, evil is supposed to continue,—here, as the consequence of a former state of the world, a sort of mephitic vapour exh... ...en it a single name. Whereas you would make a much better and more equal and logical classification of numbers, if you divided them into odd and even;... ...NG SOCRATES: Indeed I should. STRANGER: And there is a still more ridiculous consequence, that the king is found running about with the herd and in cl... ...hown in the previous argument. STRANGER: Thank you for reminding me; and the consequence is that any true form of government can only be supposed to b...
..., with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. Anyhow, Mr. Wopsle’s Roman nose so aggravated me, during the r... ...t his anwil. – Y ou’re a-listening and understanding, Pip?” “Y es, Joe.” “‘Consequence, my mother and me we ran away from my father, several times; an... ...g, Pip, or the pot won’t bile, don’t you know?” I saw that, and said so. “‘Consequence, my father didn’t make objections to my going to work; so I wen... ...First (to get our thoughts in order): Forty-three pence?” I calculated the consequences of replying “Four Hundred Pound,” and finding them against me,... ...re left alone together, he sat with an air upon him of general lying by in consequence of informa- tion he possessed, that really was too much for me.... ...t, as I should so put it. Both of which,” said Joe, quite charmed with his logical arrangement, “being done, now this to you a true friend, say . Name...
...haunted the cathedral; they cul- tivated the society of the clergy; and in consequence, when books of devotion were once more in demand, Cointet Broth... ...ng becomes impossible. Here this close sympathy was lacking, and Lucien in consequence was in the position of an angel who should endeavor to sing of ... ...bamboo. The Abbe Grozier had a Chinese book, an iconographical and techno- logical work, with a great many pictures in it, illustrating all the differ...
...utility of the theory implied in these and similar phrases, was an obvious consequence from the speculations of writ- ers even anterior to Mr. Ricardo... ...nterior to that of cost of production, and from which this last flows as a consequence,—namely, the prin- ciple of demand and supply. In order to appl... ...e same as before. Or it may not diminish it at all, or so little, that, in consequence of the higher price, a greater money value will be purchased th... ...consumers of linen, who pay a higher price for that imported commodity, in consequence of the tax on our exports, which at the same time they, in cons... ...ual to what its price without the duty was at first, it is not a necessary consequence that the fall will stop; for the same amount of exportation as ... ...hat the definition of a science would occupy the same place in the chrono- logical which it commonly does in the didactic order. As a treatise on any ... ... definition of the science itself as should not be liable to well-grounded logical objections. From this remark, we cannot except the authors of eleme... ...itical Economy has remained des- titute of a definition framed on strictly logical principles, or even of, what is more easily to be had, a definition... ... one cause, a knowledge of the law of that cause would, unless there was a logical error in our reasoning, en- able us confidently to predict all the ...
...Fettercairn, one of the Bar ons of the Exchequer in Scotland, and was, in consequence, sent to the University of Edinburgh, at the expense of a fund ... ... expression on the other), and had re duced it to rules, grounded on the logical analysis of a sen tence. These rules he strongly impressed upon me... ...e as anyone that Christians do not, in general, undergo the de moralizing consequences which seem inherent in such a creed, in the manner or to the e... ...eory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logical conse quences of the theory. Such is the facility with which man ... ...other, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recom mended to them by their feelings, that multit... ... fact. This point in my early education had, however, incidentally one bad consequence deserving notice. In giving me an opinion contrary to that of t... ...er, my father put into my hands Condillac’s Traité des Sensations, and the logical and meta physical volumes of his Cours d’Etudes; the first (notwi... ...ervice to me, by compelling precision in conceiving and expressing psycho logical doctrines, whether accepted as truths or only regarded as the opini... ...a desire to promote the exercise of other mental faculties than the purely logical, he advised me to make my next exercise in composition one of the o...
... fate is poignant, it is intensely in- teresting, and of not the slightest consequence. GUY DE MAUPASSANT—1904* TO INTRODUCE Maupassant to English rea... ...s Attitude before the Public Opinion, and so on to the chapter of the Last Consequences. We see, created for us in his outward form and in- nermost pe... ...soned con- viction; it has behind it the profound belief in the right of a logical necessity to be appeased at the cost of so much blood and treasure.... ...a State does not spring from such a contemptible source. It is a matter of logical growth, of faith and courage. Its inspiration springs from the cons... ...lance back at the last hundred years shows the invariable, one may say the logical, powerlessness of Russia. As a military power it has never achieved... ...he most repressive 82 Notes on Life and Letters measures with a perfectly logical duplicity, Prince Bismarck’s Empire has taken care to couple the ne... ...us- sia is to find her end, it can never be a revolution fruitful of moral consequences to mankind. It can- not be anything else but a rising of slave... ... all possible tones carrying conviction, the gently persuasive, the coldly logical; in tones Hegelian, Nietzschean, war-like, pious, cynical, inspired... ...ts renewed assertion) an object of dislike and mistrust. As an unavoidable consequence of the past Poland will have to begin its existence in an atmos...