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... looked about at the picture of a home which calmed the convulsions of his physical nature, in which a phenomenon was taking place analogous to that w... ..., comparable only 35 Balzac to the terrible power of certain gases in the physical world, beings who combine with other beings, penetrate them as act... ...tes of instinct; just as every motion revealed the perfection of the man’s physical apparatus, the flexibility of his senses, and their fidelity when ... ...eeks to represent the effects of the moral nature was well as those of the physical nature, there are glo- rious men who express ideas in marble. The ... ...ter subtilizes. If such were the question, I cannot see why He who has, by physical relations, studded with stars at immea- surable distances the heav... ...s well as the greatest of creations are distinguishable from each other by quantities, qualities, dimensions, forces,—all attributes created by Number...

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...t his talents and learning were fully equal to his task. He began with the physical ge- ography of this country, and examined the characteristics of ... ...is to arise. The voter is selected, under our laws, because he has certain physical qualifications – age and sex. His disqualifications, when any are ... ...progress of discovery some resemblance has been found to exist between the physical conformation, the language, and the habits of the Indians of North... ...progress of discovery some resemblance has been found to exist between the physical conformation, the language, and the habits of the Indians of North... ...ller and smaller at each division. This is the direct and, as it were, the physical effect of the law. It follows, then, that in countries where equal... ...s,” says the report, “reach the treaty-ground poor and almost naked. Large quantities of goods are taken there by the traders, and are seen and examin...

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...ute arose; the old father, warm already, became warmer; culinary and meta- physical irritations united to derange his liver: he took to his bed, and d... ... by the dying English soldier, and to comfort him with such ministrations, physical or spiritual, as his situation allowed. “Nolebat,” says the eviden... ...y had accomplished, seemed hard to explain. But on our side, be- sides the physical superiority, was a tower of strength, namely, the king’s name, “wh... ... could fall within the line of his terrors? Certainly not, as regarded any physical pretensions that I could plead; for Fanny (as a chance passenger f... ... distinctions in my favor might easily with Miss Fanny have compensated my physical defi- ciencies. Did I then make love to Fanny? Why, yes; mais oui ... ... founded on the ignotum. Even this biscuit was allowed in the most limited quantities; for which reason it is that the Greeks called this apology for ... ... “mouthful,” some- thing very much beyond either nine or nineteen ordinary quantities of that denomination, whereas the Roman “jentaculum” was literal... ...ties under which the ancient vocabularies express this model of evanescent quantities is gustatio, a mere tasting; and again it is called by another v...

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...ntems; old Bontems was a red repub- lican of the deepest dye, owning large quantities of the na- tionalized land, that he bought for a mere song. But ... ...ble impulse leads them to believe that moral perfection must co-exist with physical perfection. If Angelique had not been at liberty to give vent to h... ... many households as the result of in- compatibility of temper, of moral or physical malady, or of antagonisms leading to such disaster as is recorded ...

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...sic is an art conceived in the very bowels of nature. “Music is subject to physical and mathematical laws. Physi- cal laws are but little known, mathe... ...ese four great musicians, what may we not attain to if we can discover the physical laws in virtue of which—grasp this clearly—we may collect, in larg... ...in virtue of which—grasp this clearly—we may collect, in larger or smaller quantities, ac- cording to the proportions we may require, an ethereal sub-...

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... Dolliver could nowise account for this happy condition of his spirits and physical energies, until he remembered taking an experimental sip of a cert... ...his delicate scales, though it seemed impossible, dealing with such minute quantities, that his tremulous fingers should not put in too little or too ...

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...ay overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery, but we know now that even in... ... at Leatherhead. But that night the strangeness of things about me, and my physical wretchedness, prevented me, for I was bruised, weary, wet to the s... ...f some wounded thing were struggling for its life amid the waves. Enormous quantities of a ruddy-brown fluid were spurting up in noisy jets out of the... ...black with the streaming fugitives, each dot a hu- man agony of terror and physical distress. I have set forth at length in the last chapter my brothe... ... members of the government had gathered at Bir- mingham, and that enormous quantities of high explosives were being prepared to be used in automatic m... ... convinced of anything—that the Martians interchanged thoughts without any physical intermediation. And I have been convinced of this in spite of stro...

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...realized during my seasons of actual residence here. Indeed, so far as its physical aspect is concerned, with its flat, unvaried surface, covered chie... ...ncts, which, aided by the cheerful temper which grew inevitably out of his physical well being, did duty very respectably, and to general acceptance, ... ... piled one upon another, contain ing bundles of official documents. Large quantities of simi lar rubbish lay lumbering the floor. It was sorrowful t... ...ord—it seemed to me, then, that I experi enced a sensation not altogether physical, yet almost so, as of burning heat, and as if the letter were not ... ... child a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty, and a slighter physical frame, if not character of less force and solidity than her own. T... ... a physician. He described him as a man of skill in all Christian modes of physical science, and likewise familiar with whatever the sav age people c...

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...am striving to express is this strength itself, more as a thing apart from his physical semblance. It was a strength we are wont to associate with thi... ...hom I was thrown in contact. Intellectually they were children, inhabiting the physical forms of men. And they smoked, incessantly smoked, using a coa... ...aid time and again in the course of their attempts to persuade me to go in for physical culture fads. But I had preferred to use my head, rather than... ...e all right in half an hour,” he assured me. “And promise I won’t use any more physical demonstrations. Get up now. You can sit on a chair.” And, toy ... ...that old sickness at the pit of the stomach, caused always by the spectacle of physical violence. In this instance I could not see, but could hear the... ...being swamped by the whitecaps. As it was, spray and spume came aboard in such quantities that I bailed without cessation. The blankets were soaking. ...

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...s scars upon his con- victions. And even now he felt that he was afflicted physically rather than mentally, that some protective padding of nerve-shea... ...od but of tissue paper. But this intellectual insecurity extended into his physical sensations. It affected his feeling in his skin, as if it were not... ...rom his wife. He knew he ought not to take these things, he knew they were physically and morally evil, but a tormenting craving drove him to them. Su... ...e delicate China tea Lady Ella procured him. 5 5 5 5 5 These doctrinal and physical anxieties and distresses were at their worst in the spring and ear... ...s your health. It is easy enough to say, as some do, that all ideas have a physical substratum; it is almost as easy to say with the Christian Scienti... ...m?” “You’d get visions. They wouldn’t be divine visions. If you took small quantities very discreetly you might get a tempo- rary quickening. But the ...

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... I was sensible, with an exaggerated distinctness, of the intensity of her physical charm for me, of her every grace and beauty; she took to herself t... ...e slaughter and mangling of a multitude of people, the destruction of vast quantities of material, and the waste of innumerable units of energy, it ef... ...ye, now, he would seem the strangest figure, in the utter disregard of all physical beauty or dignity about him. You would find him extraordinarily od... ...early too strong for my heart and nerves and the tense powers of my merely physical being. I came down among the pale sand-heaps slowly toward that qu... ... Everything was as still as death. I felt very light, full of the sense of physical well-being. I perceived I was lying on my side in a little trample... ...ade a big brooding figure in the sun- light, he had an effect of more than physical largeness; he made me feel that it became me to wait upon his thin... ...e new age. Young people nowadays can scarcely hope to imagine the enormous quantities of pure 204 In the Days of the Comet litter and useless accumul...

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...dhood. What vanity could I have wounded,—I a child new-born? What moral or physical infirmity caused by mother’s cold- ness? Was I the child of duty, ... ...rde; I breathed an atmosphere of happiness. Has the moral nature, like the physical nature, its own electrical communications and its rapid changes of... ...ich were brown and prominent amid the general pallor of his skin, showed a physical structure which was likely to ensure him a long life. His hard, li... ...h ten years of emigration and ten years more of farm- life had changed his physical condition, he still retained cer- tain vestiges of nobility. The b... ...nd, he lived despoiled of everything, of his moral strength as well as his physical. Want of money made his name a burden. His unalterable opinions, h... ...enderest spot, for which she seemed to aim. Moral sufferings are not fixed quantities; they de- pend on the sensitiveness of souls. The countess had t...

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...s the house. It was one of those grimy brick houses which existed in large quantities be- fore the era of reconstruction dawned upon London. The shop ... ...as thoroughly domesticated. Neither his spiritual, nor his mental, nor his physical needs were of the kind to take him much abroad. He found at home t... ...orist, as if rooted suddenly to the spot by his morbid horror and dread of physical pain. Stevie knew very well that hot iron applied to one’s skin hu... ...d on the fatal darkness. This luminous and mutilated vision was so ghastly physically that Mr V erloc started away from the window, letting down the v... ...appened but rarely—the big Ossipon suffered from a sense of moral and even physical insignificance. However, he ventured an- other question. “Did you ... ...- able—lacked all suggestion but that of atrocious cruelty. Overcoming his physical repugnance, Chief Inspector Heat stretched out his hand without co...

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...at give one so vast a sense of the former. When I think of the progress of physical and mechanical science, of medicine and sanitation during the last... ... average efficiency, the power now available for human service, the merely physical increment, and compare it with anything that has ever been at man’... ...at we called at first sociological discussion. I can still recall even the physical feeling of those first tentative talks. I remember them mostly as ... ...s in modern philosophy, modern history, European literature and criticism, physical and biological science, education and sociology. We could in fact ... ...want to get clear of those two places… . Always I renew my old feelings, a physical oppression, a sense of lowness and dampness almost exactly like th... ...under a Siberian crab near the great bay window. There I sat and ate great quantities of cake, and dis- cussed the tactics of the Suffragettes. I had ...

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...ountry, should be put on rail instantly, and fed up to the ship in regular quantities every day. After drinking some hot coffee, like an Arctic explor... ...the main deck. Thereupon followed various and unpleasant consequences of a physical order—“queer symptoms,” as the captain, who treated them, used to ... ...mmand. There came three months of mental worry, hard rolling, remorse, and physical pain to drive home the lesson of insuf- ficient experience. Yes, y... ...y a grim, almost imperceptible, playfulness of tone and manner. He had the physical assurance of strong-hearted men. After half an hour’s interview in... ...l I have no doubt. An utterly, hopelessly depraved nature was expressed in physical terms, that taken each separately had nothing positively startling...

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... that it evokes heroic qualities that it has brought out almost incredible quantities of courage, devotion, and individual ro- mance that did not show... ...sat sideways to his table as a man might sit for a gossip in a cafe. He is physically a big man, and in my memory he grows bigger and bigger. He sits ... ...kbone process of the whole art of war is the manufacture in over- whelming quantities, the carriage and delivery of shell upon the vulnerable points o... ...reat caves or icebergs or the stars. They are a new aspect of the logic of physical necessity that made all these older things, and he seizes upon the... ...nderstandings, any fruitful unanimities? No doubt it is producing enormous quantities of cerebra- tion, but is it anything more than chaotic and futil...

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...traces of its former fairness and fineness of tissue, some vestiges of the physical charms of her youth still survived. M. Poiret was a sort of automa... ....” Stately Paris ignores the existence of these faces bleached by moral or physical suffering; but, then, Paris is in truth an ocean that no line can ... ...had taken that he might continue his career. The poor old man’s mental and physical condition afforded some grounds for the absurd rubbish talked abou... ... had as much flour as he wanted. My grandmother’s steward sold him immense quantities. No doubt Noriot shared the plunder with the Committee of Public... ...hat it was pleasant to be borne so quickly across Paris. This sensation of physical comfort left his mind 73 Balzac free to grapple with the thoughts... ... philosopher who shall investigate the ef- fects of mental action upon the physical world will doubt- less find more than one proof of the material na...

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... alms house, or to retain any but work ing bees in the hive. Those who by physical or mental imbecility are disqualified from work, are thereby dis ... ...e manual alphabet; in extending in every possible way her knowledge of the physical relations of things; and in proper care of her health. ‘At the end... ...They are generally those dyspeptic ladies and gentlemen who eat unheard of quantities of hot corn bread (almost as good for the digestion as a kneaded... ... sullen, and taciturn. If he be capable of smartness of any kind, moral or physical, he has a faculty of concealing it which is truly marvellous. He n... ... Port Hope and Coburg, the lat ter a cheerful, thriving little town. Vast quantities of flour form the chief item in the freight of these vessels. We... ...ess, are indispensable to this end; the custom of hastily swallowing large quantities of animal food, three times a day, and rushing back to sedentary... ...mazing changes I have seen around me on every side,—changes moral, changes physical, changes in the amount of land subdued and peopled, changes in the...

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...t of civilised people, as though they were of the nature of an approaching physical dis- comfort—a tight shoe or a draughty window. She was already un... ...g. Rachel stood up and went. Her head was cold, her knees shaking, and the physical pain of the emotion was so great that she could only keep herself ... ... beauties and singularities of the place, the streets, the people, and the quantities of unowned yellow dogs. “Don’t you think it dreadfully cruel the... ...by the same rule as her own did, and her mind dwelt on them with a kind of physical pleasure such as is caused by the contemplation of bright things h... ...h the wish to go on talking? No. It always began in his case with definite physical sensations, and these were now absent, he did not even find her ph... ... the room to stand by her side. This passage across the room amounted to a physical sensation, but what it meant she did not know. Thus the time went ... ... Alfred Perrott, and told me I’d no heart, and was merely a Siren, oh, and quantities of pleasant things like that. So at last I said to him, ‘Well, S...

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...heavy-laden, half-vanquished, still swimming painfully in seas of manifold physical and other bewilderment. Brow and head were round, and of massive w... ...hand. In those first London months, as always afterwards while it remained physically possible, I saw much of him; loved him, as was natural, more and... ...eeded from one source. Sterling’s bodily disease was the expression, under physical conditions, of the too vehement life which, under the moral, the i... ...id soul would abate with years. Nay the doctors sometimes promised, on the physical side, a like result; prophesying that, at forty-five or some matur... ...f wise and temperate man- hood in the country, and to diffuse the means of physical and moral well-being among all the people.... I will write to my F... ...Papers he saved a few, giving brief pertinent directions about them; great quantities, among which a certain Autobiography begun some years ago at Cli...