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...skin tone was slightly lighter than that of her husband, but all Kier- anis had a stunning natural golden sheen to their skin. Prince Amoni was dress... ...was held for life. Seated in the crowd was one of the priests who possessed a wonderful, natural artistic ability. He was sketching images from the... ...harom?” Victarius asked. “I have never heard of such a name, but then again I studied the sciences, not history.” “But Master Victarius, history is ... ...ke and looked at him while he slept. She was puzzled by what had just happened and by how natural it felt. She did not know why exactly, but she was... ...atement. “And you are reading me now?” “Just as you have been trying to read me. It is a natural response, would you not say, to an unfamiliar situ... ... “Amoni, Alaj is not a military man, he is not easily given over to fighting and he has a natural distaste for it. I am certain he wants this to end...

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...alloped for Kurt too, so of course he had an interest in her well being. Only natural. But Otto ignored him, and Kurt’s jaw tightened in frustratio... ... it's time to report in, and I still need to study the program.” Of course. Naturally she wouldn’t want to eat. Even if she met her riding weight, ... ...ra’s, and Kurt didn’t like the speculative gleam in her eyes. Didn’t want her natural nosiness turned on him. Sometimes he felt like he had ‘cop’ ta... ...yes, somewhat inebriated. Perfect. She was tiny and didn't eat before a race. Naturally, alcohol would have a big effect. It would be simple to ply... ...lushed, but she squared her shoulders. She’d just galloped three horses, only natural she’d look flushed. “He felt even, Barb,” she said to the bay'...

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... get from their people. He was never familiar, though perfectly simple and natural; he was the same with the mean- est man as with the greatest, and a... ... to the end of time? I am for having her rise up off her knees, and take a natural posture: not to be for ever performing cringes and congees like a c... ...xpelled the life out of it, which was nothing but corruption. The mother’s natural pang at losing this poor little child must have been increased when... ...to the very midst of winter, painting roses on her cheeks long after their natural season, and attiring herself like summer though her head was covere... ...yship in the late lord’s time, and, having her soul in that business, took naturally to it when the Viscountess of Castlewood returned to inhabit her ... ...on, in religion and morals, as well as in the rudiments of the tongues and sciences, the boy took ea- gerly and with gratitude from his tutor. When, t... ...matical studies under his father’s guidance, who was a proficient in those sciences, of which Esmond knew nothing; nor could he write Latin so well as...

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...y condescension to Miss Bridget, and by that means had a little soured her natural disposition, it was usual with her to walk forth among these people... ...ure bids us love our enemies, it means not with that fervent love which we naturally beat towards our friends; much less that we should sacri fice to... ...ad missed the advantage of a learned education, yet, being blest with vast natural abili ties, he had so well profited by a vigorous though late appl... ...d good teeth, and something affable, when he pleased, in his smile; though naturally his countenance, as well as his air and voice, had much of roughn... ...his cheeks from being cherry coloured, that you could not discern what the natural colour of his cheeks was, they being totally overgrown by a black b... ... and gardening, and read over many books on both these subjects; for these sciences, indeed, employed his whole time, and formed his only amusement. H...

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...nd liga- tures in the mangled confusion—and Mr. Polly had lost much of his natural confidence, so far as figures and sciences and languages and the po... ...d Mr. Polly had lost much of his natural confidence, so far as figures and sciences and languages and the possibilities of learning things were con- c... ...itting. 12 The History of Mr. Polly III III III III III MR. POLLY was not naturally interested in hosiery and gentlemen’s outfitting. At times, indee... ... of absolute impecuniosity. But he was hopeless in competition against the naturally gifted, the born hustlers, the young men who meant to get on. He ... ...Easewood Junction, and felt the re- sponsibilities of his position. He was naturally thoughtful and reserved, and greatly sustained in that by an inna... ...point of encouragement into him—with that strange passive cruelty which is natural to her sex and age. And Mr. Polly fell in love, as though the world...

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...ell lay aside.’ ‘I didn’t mean to say so, Edward dear. I forgot. It was so natural once, that it seemed at the moment the right word.’ ‘Oh yes!’ Miss ... ... it seemed at the moment the right word.’ ‘Oh yes!’ Miss Fanny struck in. ‘Natural, and right word, and once, and all the rest of it! Nonsense, you li... ...ld, and never exults now. Fanny is very graceful, quick, and clever. It is natural to her to be a lady; she has adapted herself to our new fortunes wi... ...eep it still.’ Blandois’ hand was unsteady; but he laughed, and that would naturally shake it. ‘He was formerly in some scuffle with another murderer,... ...pths in himself. She wondered whether his want of earnestness might be the natural result of his want of such qualities, and whether it was with peopl... ... peaceful public benefactors, and upon all the leaders of all the Arts and Sciences, with all their works to testify for them, during two centuries at...

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...arkness of the world; and this not as a kindled lamp only, but rather as a natural luminary shining by the gift of Heaven; a flowing light-fountain, a... ...ce swims as a mere superficial film. This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to ... ... we may say, out of many roots: every admira- tion, adoration of a star or natural object, was a root or fibre of a root; but Hero-worship is the deep... ...y in some sort the Portraiture of this man Odin? The gigantic image of his natural face, legible or not legible there, expanded and confused in that m... ...tells us they thought it a shame and mis- ery not to die in battle; and if natural death seemed to be coming on, they would cut wounds in their flesh... ...ogies, symbolic practices, speculations, allegories, songs and sagas would naturally grow. Grow,— how strangely! I called it a small light shining and... ...ndivine enough,—salable, curious, good for propelling steamships! With our Sciences and Cyclopaedias, we are apt to forget the divineness, in those la... ...hat once well forgotten, I know not what else were worth remembering. Most sciences, I think were then a very dead thing; withered, contentious, empty... ..., privileges, encour- agements, and named it Universitas, or School of all Sciences: the University of Paris, in its essential characters, was there. ...

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...and biographer, than of any other species of writing; for all the arts and sciences (even criticism itself) require some little degree of learning and... ...ed— not by the miraculous intervention of any heathen deity, but by a very natural though fortunate accident, viz., by the arrival of Partridge; who e... ...s vindice nodus, and the present security of Jones may be accounted for by natural means; for as love frequently preserves from the attacks of hunger,... ...which lay in a disordered manner on the floor. All these, operating on the natural jealousy of his temper, so enraged him, that he lost all power of s... ...ence, I think, we may very fairly draw an argument, to prove how extremely natural virtue is to the fair sex; for, though there is not, perhaps, one i... ...o that all the secrets there deposited run out. These sluices were indeed, naturally, very ill secured. To give the best natured turn we can to his d... ...But though a miracle of this kind might have engaged all the Academies des Sciences in Europe, and perhaps in a fruit less inquiry; yet the reader, b...

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.............................................................................. 703 Chapter XXI Of the Division of the Sciences ............................. ...EATISE, which is grown up under your lordship’s eye, and has ventured into the world by your order, does now, by a natural kind of right, come to your... ...your lordship; and its having some little corre- spondence with some parts of that nobler and vast sys- tem of the sciences your lordship has made so ... ...The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty de- signs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monu- ... ...h cumbered with the learned but frivolous use of uncouth, affected, or unin- telligible terms, introduced into the sciences, and there made an art of,... ... virtue and vice, yet we are better agreed than he thinks in what he says in his third chapter (p. 78) concerning “natural inscrip- tion and innate no... ...y “in order to the soul’s exerting them,” brings them into our knowledge. P. 52 I find him express it thus: “These natural no- tions are not so imprin... ...cerned us, whilst we let loose our thoughts into the vast ocean of Being; as if all that boundless extent were the natural and undoubted possession of... ... should only show (as I hope I shall in the following parts of this Discourse) how men, barely by the use of their natural faculties, may attain to al...

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...e the patient. He maintained, with peculiar satisfaction, it seemed, that maiden modesty is a mere relic of barbarism, and that nothing could be more natural than for a man still youngish to handle a young girl naked. He thought it natural because he did it every day, and felt and thought, as it seemed to him, no harm as he did it and consequently he considered modesty in ...

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...den mod- esty is a mere relic of barbarism, and that nothing could be more natural than for a man still youngish to handle a young girl naked. He thou... ... than for a man still youngish to handle a young girl naked. He thought it natural because he did it every day, and felt and thought, as it seemed to ... ...ought and feeling in another person’s place was a spiritual ex- ercise not natural to Alexey Alexandrovitch. He looked on this spiritual exercise as a... ...marveled, hear- ing herself, at her own capacity for lying. How simple and natural were her words, and how likely that she was simply sleepy! She felt... ...nd what’s the matter.” She spoke, and marveled at the confident, calm, and natural tone in which she was speaking, and the choice of the words she use... ...I’m talking of the science of agriculture. It ought to be like the natural sciences, and to observe given phenom- ena and the laborer in his economic,...

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...s it, and it presupposes in that being the development, and not merely the natural possession, of cer- tain relevant powers and capacities. The last i... ...ry and subordinate. These powers arise from the due development of certain natural aptitudes which belong (in various degrees) to human na- ture as su... ...ite in us admiration and praise of their possessors, and that they are not natural endowments, but acquired characteristics. But they differ in import... ...arac- ter? and (2) How is it formed? (for character in this sense is not a natural endowment; it is formed or produced). Aristotle deals with these qu... ...acts which have a similar or common quality. Such rep- etition acting upon natural aptitudes or propensities gradually fixes them in one or other of t... ... nature better than the acts of working. Again, since actions and arts and sciences are many, the Ends likewise come to be many: of the healing art, f... ... wealth; are respectively the Ends. And whatever of such actions, arts, or sciences range un- der some one faculty (as under that of horsemanship the ... ... actions, or something further beside them, as is the case in the arts and sciences we have been just speaking of.) [Sidenote: II] Since then of all t... ...ht to try to describe, in outline at least, what it is and of which of the sciences and faculties it is the End. [Sidenote: 1094b] Now one would natur...

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...and Nature His handmaid planted the roots of excellent morals and of famous sciences, but whom the poverty of their circumstances so oppressed that ... ...honour and the affection that we owe to our teachers. In fine, since all men naturally desire to know, and since by means of books we can attain the k... ...with pestiferous venom. In sooth, we who should be treated as masters in the sciences, and bear rule over the mechanics who should be subject to us, a... ...s of the plurality of human intellects and of their eternity, if the perfect sciences of the ancients had not been exposed to the calamities of hatefu... ...assus; and porches of the Stoics. There is seen the surveyor of all arts and sciences Aristotle, to whom belongs all that is most excellent in doctrin... ...as by this means that Avicenna edited his Canon, and Pliny his great work on Natural His tory, and Ptolemy the Almagest. For as in the writers of ann... ...ted by their Councils, and established by the mar tyrdom of many. Yet their natural slowness, as it happens, turns to the glory of the Latins, since ... ...shion of speech, or that where a fictitious but becoming subject is handled, natural or historical truth is pursued under the guise of allegorical fic... ...ued under the guise of allegorical fiction. Although it is true that all men naturally desire knowl edge, yet they do not all take the same pleasure ...

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...f initiating action. This category com- prises a large number and range of natural objects and phe- nomena. Such a distinction between the inert and t... ... and it still profoundly affects the prevalent theory of human life and of natural processes; but it does not pervade our daily life to the extent or ... ... in our time there is the knowl- edge of the dead languages and the occult sciences; of cor- rect spelling; of syntax and prosody; of the various form... ...on of the appearance of thrift. So, a predilection for the rustic and the “natural” in parks and grounds makes its appearance on these higher social a... ...objects which are primarily admired for the beauty that belongs to them as natural growths. The popular taste in these matters is to be seen in the pr... ...ful in dress should be a gradual approach to artistic perfection. We might naturally expect that the fashions should show a well-marked trend in 117 ... ...n implication of profound familiarity with magical practice and the occult sciences. There is a parallel fact nearer home, similarly going to show the... ...s today comprises a disproportionately large number of believers in occult sciences of all kinds and shades. By those whose habits of thought are not ... ...ly and in larger measure in magical practice than in the discipline of the sciences, even of the occult sciences. But there are, I apprehend, few per-...

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...en the well disposed are daily made the agents on injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file ... ... to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and con sciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpita... ...to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and bet ting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cas... ...hitest, most simply furnished, and probably neatest apartment in town. He naturally wanted to know where I came from, and what brought me there; and,... ...all, there is this difference between resisting this and a purely brute or natural force, that 24 On the Duty of Civil Disobedience I can resist this...

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...and beauty that a gallery of sculpture or of pictures addresses. Civil and natural history, the history of art and of lit- erature, must be explained ... ...nd. Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. The Greeks are not reflective, but perfect in their senses and in ... ...Letters, the Reformation, the discovery of new lands, the open- ing of new sciences and new regions in man. He shall be the priest of Pan, and bring w... ... an agreement in whatever variety of ac- tions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the actions will be harmonious, how... ... to come through some foreign virtue, and loses itself in endless mazes of natural and supernatural, and mediato- rial and miraculous. Prayer that cra... ... all the powers of nature. Every thing is made of one hidden stuff; as the naturalist sees one type under every metamorphosis, and regards a horse as ... ...ice, of love, of aspiration, stand already on a platform that commands the sciences and arts, speech and poetry, action and grace. For whoso dwells in... ... ment is final. I see not, if one be once caught in this trap of so-called sciences, any escape for the man from the links of the chain of physical ne... ... must not harbor such disconsolate consciences, borrowed too from the con- sciences of other nations. We must set up the strong present tense against ...

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... in his view of what is good for humanity. This assumption is all the more natural and inevitable because, watching the move- ment of history, we see ... ...sts think that their disagreements are the cause of this fresh pressure of natural forces; they anticipate war between their sovereigns; the position ... ...uch a conclusion: (1) that history is written by learned men, and so it is natural and agreeable for them to think that the activity of their class su... ...ies the basis of the movement of all humanity, just as a similar belief is natural and agreeable to traders, agriculturists, and soldiers (if they do ... ...anced people— that is, the crowd of ignoramuses—have taken the work of the naturalists who deal with one side of the question for a solution of the wh... ...s, but has never been denied. They do not see that the role of the natural sciences in this matter is merely to serve as an instrument for the illumin... ...hy of history can and should follow a path contrary to that taken by other sciences. Instead of first defin- ing the conceptions of freedom and inevit... ... while free will itself is the subject of metaphysics. In the experimental sciences what we know we call the laws of inevitability, what is unknown to... ...ing the causes of phenomena—the old method of history is moving. All human sciences have traveled along that path. Arriving at 107 Tolstoy infinitesi...

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... too as the T eacher and exem- plar of his age. For, to say nothing of his natural gifts, he has cultivated himself and his art, he has studied how to... ...moral problems is how to cast it off, or how to rise above it. Governments naturally at- tempt the first expedient; Philosophers, in general, the seco... ...orth the forms of things un- seen, his pen turns them to shape. This, as a natural endowment, exists in Goethe, we conceive, to a very high degree. Th... ...ngage the mind of man. In 1809 he finished The Elective Affinities. It was natural at the beginning of a new course of life that Goethe should write a... ...ferent shape. Besides, I had also to call to mind how I had labored in the sciences and other arts, and what, in such apparently foreign departments, ... ...g pertaining to Italy, was very decided. A small collection of marbles and natural curiosities, which he had brought with him thence, he often showed ... ...e of conceptions and general knowledge is necessary to us, as well for the sciences as for daily life, which can be learned out of no compendium. Our ...

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...each, their little red skiffs beating about among the alders;—such healthy natural tumult as proves the last day is not yet at hand. And there stand a... ...hen they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural im pulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany the... ...e, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents. They are the natural highways of all nations, not only levelling the ground and removing... ...h so much smothered sunlight, if you stood near enough, no work of art but naturalized at length. I often discovered him unex pectedly amid the pads ... ...y may be found in water in so many places, in greater or less numbers. The natural historian is not a fisherman, who prays for cloudy days and good lu... ...h strong and wilderness tints on any poet’s string. These modern ingenious sciences and arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting ...

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...ppear to me at all impertinent, but, consider ing the circumstances, very natural and pertinent. Some have asked what I got to eat; if I did not feel... ...er their shoulders “until it becomes impossible for them to re sume their natural position, while from the twist of the neck nothing but liquids can ... ...n our own internal, may not cookery properly be said to begin? Darwin, the naturalist, says of the in habitants of Tierra del Fuego, that while his o... ... young, he looked at shelving rocks, or any approach to a cave? It was the natural yearning of that portion, any portion of our most primi tive ances... ...w many things; But lo! they have taken wings The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that blows ... ...of men? I never in all my walks came across a man engaged in so simple and natural an occupation as building his house. We belong to the community. It... ...h as mathematics. If I wished a boy to know some thing about the arts and sciences, for instance, I would not pursue the common course, which is mere...