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...ruggled against this fascinating en- 5 Thomas de Quincey thralment with a religious zeal, and have at length accom- plished what I never yet heard at... ...I could express or illustrate them more briefly and elegantly by algebraic symbols than in the usual clumsy and loitering diction of economists, the w... ...ises without scruple that are made to a whole nation, who keep their faith religiously in all private engagements, breaches of promise towards the str...

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...om he suspected of being in possession of treasonable papers or Jesuitical symbols; and as there were to be a hundred and thirty-seven clauses in the ... ... or precentor, or what he will, let him be never so scrupulous in exacting religious duties from his twelve dependents, or never so negligent as regar... ...he hundred and seventh ordered the bodily searching of nuns for jesuitical symbols by aged clergymen, and was considered to be the real mainstay of th... ... and laughter), and attempt to lagalise indacent assaults on the bodies of religious ladies.’ (Deafening cheers and laughter, which were prolonged til...

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...t in- dustrial area of the Midlands.) We had shared each other’s secret of religious doubt, we had confided to one another a common interest in Social... ...st beyond endurance. It was clear to me that I had to think out for myself religious problems, social problems, questions of conduct, questions of exp... ... the spectacle and a great and growing awe. They were Dissenters, and very religious people out of business hours, and it seemed to them in those last... ...ast, the deepest, widest, and most enduring of all the vast inundations of religious emo- tion that go by that name. But indeed it differed essentiall... ...f health, it was altogether quieter, more intellectual, more private, more religious than any of those 159 H. G . Wells others. In the old time, and ... ... blaze, and all (saving a few truly glorious trophies and memories) of our symbols, our apparatus and material of war. Then innumerable triumphs of ou...

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... gave us credit for imbuing the ordinary rustic occupations with a kind of religious po etry, insomuch that our very cow yards and pig sties were as ... ...ger’s person. I wondered whether there had always been a chasm, guarded so religiously, betwixt these two. As for Westervelt, he was not a whit more w... ...e task belongs to woman. God meant it for her. He has endowed her with the religious sentiment in its utmost depth and purity, refined from that gross... ...y among the straw as they could burrow, four huge black grunters, the very symbols of slothful ease and sensual comfort. They were asleep, drawing sho... ...the throb of the soul’s life is too faint and weak to render us capable of religious aspiration. “Mr. Moodie,” said I, “shall we lunch together? And w... ...t, or virtue, only the forms into which he should see fit to mould it. The religious senti ment was a flame which he could blow up with his breath, o...

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...sts of Judæa—rose suddenly out of the quiet, out of the safety, out of the religious inspiration, rooted in deep pasto- ral solitudes, to a station in... ...tity over what else might have seemed a heathen wilder- ness. This sort of religious talisman being secured, a man the most afraid of ghosts (like mys... ...tatione, how pro- digious must have been the adaptation of the book to the religious heart of the fifteenth century! Excepting the Bible, but exceptin... ...owd to the windows—young and old understand the language of our victorious symbols—and rolling volleys of sympathizing cheers run along behind and bef... ...ans a death without warning, consequently without any available summons to religious preparation. The poor muti- neer, who kneels down to gather into ...

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...All that she would henceforth attempt and that most reverently, not to say religiously was to catch and reflect some of the glory which had been shed ... ...cture gets its immortality. Hilda was no such machine as this; she wrought religiously, and therefore wrought a miracle. It strikes us that there is s... ...men, now that words have been feebly substituted in the place of signs and symbols. He gave Miriam the idea of a being not precisely man, nor yet a ch... ...t night, and the ray cheered me, because you lighted it.” “It has for me a religious significance,” replied Hilda qui- etly, “and yet I am no Catholic... ...od. Or we might bow be- fore an artist, who has wrought too sincerely, too religiously, with too earnest a feeling, and too delicate a touch, for the ... ...sures im- mortality to whatever is wrought in it, and therefore makes it a religious obligation to commit no idea to its mighty guard- ianship, save s...

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..., Helen, Mr. Pepper, and the rest—be sym- bols,—featureless but dignified, symbols of age, of youth, of motherhood, of learning, and beautiful often a... ...?” asked Mrs. Ambrose. Rachel explained that most people had hitherto been symbols; but that when they talked to one they ceased to be symbols, and be... ...taken over a Spanish man-of-war, and had seen a great many processions and religious festivals, which were so beautiful that Mrs. Ambrose couldn’t con... ...aunt called Rachel, who put the life of Father Damien into verse. She is a religious fanatic—the result of the way she was brought up, down in Northam... ... liqueur, and deck-chairs; the hotel flourishing, some 218 The Voyage Out religious body had taken the place in hand, and it was now fitted out with ... ...ocks and the great cedar trees majestic figures of gods and of beasts, and symbols of the great forces, water, air, and forest among which they lived....

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... peculiar fashion; Margaret of Navarre was writing the “Heptameron” and some religious books,—the first survives, the others are forgotten, wit and in... ...Indians, near the site of the present city of that name, where they found a ‘religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the ... ...Mississippi Mark T wain 58 sown thick with what are to him the signs and symbols of hidden decay? Does he ever see her beauty at all, or doesn’t h... ...believe it, but many steamboat clerks al ways carried a large assortment of religious tracts with them in those old departed steamboating days. Indee... ...acts, tied to shingles. The amount of hard swearing which twelve packages of religious literature will command when impartially divided up among twelv... ...ned sev eral colleges besides those already mentioned; and all of them on a religious basis of one kind or another. He directed my attention to what ...

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...nal crossed letter, very laborious to read; a third will take up with some religious crotchet and treat you to sour looks thence-forward. So, in one w... ...le are malicious in drink, or brawling and virulent under the influence of religious feel- ing, some are moody, jealous, and exacting when they are in... ...here are some of an inert, uneloquent nature, who have been denied all the symbols of communication, who have nei- ther a lively play of facial expres...

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...is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexu- ality into religious emotion. And the great difference between man and monkey is in th... ...arynx, he continued,—in the incapacity to frame delicately different sound-symbols by which thought could be sustained. In this I failed to agree with... ...y evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless. “Then I am a religious man, Prendick, as every sane man must be. It may be, I fancy, tha...

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...t was in the days when the crusaders of the Christian world invented these symbols by which to recognize each other; the Guaisnics have never had it q... ...ht be rendered worthless. This human masterpiece of virtuous and noble and religious education, Calyste, might be destroyed; the happiness of his life... ...istences which cannot be judged like ordinary lives.” “My child,” said the religious Fanny, “nothing can excuse a woman for not conducting herself as ... ...ike the rays of a nimbus around the heads of divine personages in works of religious art; through it they see all Nature glorious, and woman radiant. ... ...n which Nature hoists over her most precious creations; it is the trust of symbols as it is the greatest of accidents. Did any one ever suppose that a... ...o urge it violently. But love in young men 169 Beatrix is so ecstatic and religious that their inmost desire is to win its fruition through moral con... ...plication. Good-bye, my dear Sabine; above all things, do not neglect your religious duties if you wish us to succeed.” “And if we do triumph, mother,...

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...ent stone beautifully clouded with rose and blood, and carved with Chinese symbols; then a litter of mementoes, rock-crystals, and shells and scraps o... ...ed her, and she went a little nearer. What was death to her but one of her symbols, the death of which the sagas talk—something grand, and sweeping, a... ...e acolyte touched them, one by one, delicately with his rod. The night was religious, then, with its proper order of worship. Day and night had their ...

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...ich he attributed to his ignorance of their taste; and assured them of his religious respect for their characters as ambassadors, and of his readiness... ...utward cave the Christian knight, though not without scruple, arising from religious reverence to the objects around, fastened up his horse, and arran... ...the hermit were now become composed, and apparently it was only a sense of religious humiliation which prevented his features, emaciated as they were ... ... sufficiently to continue their progress; so that, seen by the shadowy and religious light which the lamps shed through the clouds of incense which da... ...It was, therefore, with a glow of expectation that had something even of a religious character that Sir Kenneth, his sensations thrilling from his hea... ...lebrated fraternity of Christian knights were em- bodied under the foulest symbols of paganism. Conrade of Montserrat had a much more pleasing exterio...

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...e of men bent over the bowls inset along a prodigious slab of marble as in religious prostra- tion before their own images in the massy mirror. Voices... ...rce, just as the priests of the Presbyte- rian Church determined his every religious belief and the senators who controlled the Republican Party decid... ...othpastes, socks, tires, cameras, instantaneous hot-water heaters—were his symbols and proofs of excel- lence; at first the signs, then the substitute... ...en a bath-tub, never read any book save the Bible, McGuffey’s readers, and religious tracts; and he be- lieved that the earth is flat, that the Englis... ...ts of grand Old England which stand as sym- bols of the eternity of faith, religious and civil.” It was built of cheery iron-spot brick in an improved... ...e columns or the shoe-trade magazines. He bought half a dozen of them at a religious book-shop and till after midnight he read them and admired. He fo...

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... stone gateway, with its gilded bars and its magnificent array of colossal granite lions, and other the signs and symbols of English roy- alty. Was th... ...s ago; ah, yes, I was to be pope!—and I should have been pope, for Heaven had said it—but the King dis- solved my religious house, and I, poor obscure... ...veral of the most rigor- ous laws that ever had passed in England were annulled; and some dawn, both of civil and religious liberty, be- gan to appear...

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... rich and powerful, till it was known at last as one of the most luxurious religious houses in Christendom, with kings for its titular abbots (who, li... ...e left, rises the famous winding stair- case (plausibly, but I believe not religiously, restored), which even the ages which most misused it must vagu... ... by great apostles, by 151 Henry James winged beasts, by a hundred sacred symbols and gro- tesque ornaments. It is a dense embroidery of sculpture, b... ... than the manner of this excellent woman when she ar- rived; yet her small religious house seemed a very out-of- 157 Henry James the-way corner of th...

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...benign power of her feminine nature, which had so often enveloped him in a religious calm; recollections of many a holy and passionate outgush of her ... ...es in the air! It will be scattering curses abroad in the likeness of holy symbols!” “Giovanni,” said Beatrice, calmly, for her grief was beyond passi... ...om their lips come from as deep a spiritual source, and tend to as lofty a religious aim, as those of the sagest philoso phers of old. In justificati...

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...Dave Dyer, a sallow woman with a thin prettiness devoted to experiments in religious cults, illnesses, and scandal-bearing, shook her finger at Carol ... ... don’t know the things that go on under cover. This town—why it’s only the religious training I’ve given Cy that’s kept him so innocent of—things. Jus... ...ng enough to read Robert J. Ingersoll clean through. Ingersoll? Oh, he’s a religious writer. Sure. You’d like him fine.” When he drove off he waved to... ...play-reading com- mittee. Her jungle romance had faded, but she retained a religious fervor, a surge of half-formed thought about the creation of beau... ...ay would have made a wonderful rec- tor. He has what I call an essentially religious soul. My! He’d have read the service beautifully! I suppose it’s ... ...ic Beavers in shirt sleeves and frayed suspenders; but whatever his caste- symbols, every Beaver was distinguished by an enormous shrimp-colored ribbo... ...eping elders giving their unvarying weekly tes- timony in primitive erotic symbols and such gory Chaldean phrases as “washed in the blood of the lamb”...

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... thanked them for their courtesy, but observed that he had included in his religious vow, an obligation never to speak in the kitchen on matters which... ...at, then, would it avail the reader to know their names, or the evanescent symbols of their martial rank! Now, however, no whit anticipating the obliv... ...ncil of the clergy of England, as the sole reason for her having taken the religious habit. The assembled clergy admitted the validity of the plea, an... ...tled to hold a higher rank from her merit, than the arbitrary despotism of religious preju- dice permitted her to aspire to. Thus prepared to expect a... ...id upon their own.” “Pax vobiscum,” said Wamba, who was now muffled in his religious disguise. And so saying he imitated the solemn and stately deport... ... finisher of the sentence.” “If such prove the case,” said the master, “my religious or- ders are soon taken—Pax vobiscum. I trust I shall remember th...

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...ave always lacked good examples.” “Alas! I was never baptized, and have no religious teaching.” “All may yet be remedied then,” replied the priest, “p... ... any rate, you must give up seeing him,” he went on. “I will take you to a religious house where young girls of the best families are educated; there ... ...he was no longer the courtesan; she was an angel rising after a fall. In a religious institution, famous for the aristocratic and pi- ous teaching imp... ... “Yes, but in a state of grace and salvation,” said the Abbe. In Spain the religious question is supreme, above all politi- cal, civil, or vital consi... ...arm and stopped him. “Not a word, monsieur!” said he. The doctor, though a religious man and a Monarchist, looked at Esther with an expression of tend... ...the highest pitch of passion. Dynamics and mathematics have no formulas or symbols to express that power. Why, only yesterday, I witnessed an experime...