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...le to say, but he was an extremely amusing one; overflowing with opinions, theories, and sympathies, with disquisi- tion and gossip and anecdote. He w...

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...d in feeling?” From this the Doctor went on to unfold the most wonder- ful theories of sympathy. He set forth in Biblical language the phenomena of lo...

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...n as child- ish. I at once spent several months in recalling the principal theories discovered by my poor schoolmate. Having collected my reminiscence... ...vity of his spirit feeding on it- self. Louis had sought for proofs of his theories in the history of great men, whose lives, as set forth by their bi... ...o each chapter in the form of demonstrations, so as to give to many of his theories an almost mathematical certainty . The works of Cardan, a man gift... ...le work of nature. He had too much good sense to dwell among the clouds of theories which can all be expressed in a few words. In our day, is not the ...

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...ery gist and centrepoint of God’s creation, and demolishes our la- borious theories with a smile; in which our ideas are so bound up with the one mast... ...cean. We have no more than glimpses and touches; we are torn away from our theories; we are spun round and round and shown this or the other view of l... ... sphere of intellect, by which all things are transformed and seen through theories and associations as through coloured windows. We make to ourselves... ...onder, not always to admire, but to make and modify our little incongruous theories about life. It is no longer the uniform of a soldier that ar- rest...

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...upposed to be a freak of the brush, but which to him suddenly realized the theories of the ideal beauty which every artist creates for himself and whe...

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...a friendly but rather awkward way. It was the first practical trial of our theories of equal brotherhood and sisterhood; and we people of superior cul... ...emblance, it is true, than the world chose to imagine, inasmuch as the two theories differed, as widely as the zenith from the nadir, in their main pr... ...here, who lived with us in a familiar way, sympathized more or less in our theories, and sometimes shared in our labors. On the whole, it was a societ... ...many visits at Blithedale, especially from people who sympathized with our theories, and perhaps held themselves ready to unite in our actual experime... ...cal professors) was bringing forward, anew, a hoard of facts and imperfect theories, that had partially won credence in elder times, but which modern ...

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...HAPTER XV—RA CHAPTER XV—RA CHAPTER XV—RATIONAL TIONAL TIONAL TIONAL TIONAL THEORIES THEORIES THEORIES THEORIES THEORIES ‘These are the reasons, they a... ...ed the night was clear, and I told him 255 Yo n g e that all the rational theories I had ever heard were far more improbable than the appearance hers...

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...e—as how could her observation have left her so?—of the possibilities through which it could range, our young lady had ever since had in her mind a do... ...ng of stamps and the ring of change over the counter, the people she had fallen into the habit of re- membering and fitting together with others, and ...

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...countenance no symptom whatever of irritation. “My daughter has her little theories,” Mrs. Church ob- served; “she has, I may say, her illusions. And ...

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... him even to tremble at the audacity with which he overturned and invented theories, and to wonder at the depth at which he wrought beneath the superf...

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...- tigate the spirit of laws that have fallen into desuetude, to review the theories which mislead nations, or, like some meta- physicians, to explain ...

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... journey, one all-absorbing problem filled his mind—”Why did she go away?” Theories grew thickly on such ground for supposition, and naturally he incl...

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...embered we hadn’t talked of Miss Ambient. “And don’t you think some of his theories are very pecu- liar?” “Oh I guess I agree with them all.” I was ve...

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...hat it has any more bearing upon the essentials of religion, than have the theories we may hold about the relation of God and the moral law to the sta... ...e Sabellian or the Trinity of the Arian, any more than one thinks of those theories made stone, those gods with three heads and seven hands, who sit o... ... dead as the lore of the Druids. The emancipation of mankind from obsolete theories and formularies may be accompanied by great tides of moral and emo...

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.... There is more excuse for one here than for the amateur maker of chemical theories, or the man who evolves a system of surgery in his leisure. These ... ... small but definite ways bad. One thing I claim, I have got my beliefs and theories out of my life and not fitted them to its circumstances. As often ... ...eme. This movement is Socialism. Socialism is to me no clear-cut system of theories and dogmas; it is one of those solid and extensive and syn- thetic...

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...gles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had been previously established for the great... ...truct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the first time, that theories hith- erto unknown, or deemed impracticable, were to exhibit a spe... ...truct society upon a new basis; and it was there, for the first time, that theories hith- erto unknown, or deemed impracticable, were to exhibit a spe... ...esponded in many points with the most absolute demo- cratic and republican theories. It was this tendency which had aroused its most dangerous adversa... ...orld, and were accepted as the future creed of a great people. The boldest theories of the human reason were put into practice by a community so humbl... ...en men who are naturally so divided on religious opinions and on political theories agree on one point See Appendix K. 116 Democracy in America (and ... ...liament is at once a legislative and a constituent assembly. The political theories of America are more simple and more rational. An American constitu... ...ere of its authority would permit. The practical consequences of these two theories were exceedingly different. The question was, whether a league was... ...the Presi- dency is put forward as the symbol and personification of their theories. For these reasons parties are strongly inter- ested in gaining th...

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...his world at all, if quackery so grew and were sanctioned here. Alas, such theories are very lamentable. If we would attain to knowledge of anything i... ...f Job was written in that region of the world. I call that, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen. One fe... ...s, building up Religions, heroic Forms of human Exist- ence in this world, Theories of Life worthy to be sung by a Dante, Practices of Life by a Shaks... ...t it forever! We will say nothing at all, I think, of that sorrowfulest of theories, of its being some mean shop- keeper grudge, of the Augustine Monk... ...” says Lord Clarendon himself: “heats and jealousies,” mere crabbed whims, theories and crotchets; these induced slow sober quiet Englishmen to lay do...

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...wing eulogy or an accusation of levity? Should you like me to carry out my theories, daddy?” “By Jove, we should see some queer things!” cried Lord Wa... ...e.” “I don’t think I am; I’ve been told I’m not; I’m said to have too many theories. But you haven’t told me about the ghost,” she added. Ralph, howev... ...he empty drawing-room. CHAPTER VI Isabel Archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. It had been her for- tune ... ...s part an impulse more tender and more purely expectant. It was one of her theories that Isabel Archer was very fortunate in being independent, and th... ...atience one would find some happy work to one’s hand. Of course, among her theories, this young lady was not without a collection of views on the subj... ...el earnest,” Mr. Touchett allowed; “but it seems as if they took it out in theories mostly. Their radical views are a kind of amusement; they’ve got ... ...d had man- ners in the most splendid of the American styles. Ralph had two theories about this intervenes. Either his pas- sion was a sentimental fict... ..., she was not occupied in conversation she was usually occupied in forming theories about her neighbours. According to Isabel, if Miss Molyneux should... ...rywhere. She asked more questions than he could answer, and launched brave theories, as to historic cause and social effect, that he was equally unabl...

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...sion, which has left us little save the option of choosing which theory or theories we will follow. The personality of Shakespere is, perhaps, the onl... ...ating to the Spartan Confucius. I will conclude this sketch of the Homeric theories with an attempt, made by an ingenious friend, to unite them into s... ...n put off with a vile counterfeit got up at second hand. If we compare the theories of Knight, Wolf, Lachmann; and others, we shall feel better satisf... ...pon this subject, I must express my fears, that many of our modern Homeric theories will become matter for the surprise and entertainment, rather than... ...o, Scaliger, and others. But, after all, the main fault in all the Homeric theories is, that they demand too great a sacrifice of those feelings to wh... ...e men of old. Heeren, who is evidently little disposed in favour of modern theories, finely observes:— “It was Homer who formed the character of the G... ... use, than seek to make it a mere centre around which to drive a series of theories, whose wildness is only equalled by their inconsistency with each ...

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...ek alphabet— never listened to a word any one said—chock-full of idi- otic theories about the way to bring up children—I’d far rather talk to him any ... ...ver, to hear what they were saying, but it pleased him to construct little theories about them from their gestures and appearance. Mrs. Thornbury had ... ...iano? Music is different… . But I see what you mean.” They tried to invent theories and to make their theories agree. As Hewet had no knowledge of mus... ...ng that was said, at other times she refused to listen, and rammed Helen’s theories down her throat with laughter, chatter, ridicule of the wildest, a... ...thing was known. Thus talk- ing and displaying the most picturesque of his theories, Rachel’s attention was fixed upon him. She did not see that Hewet...