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... dysentery, we shall have sharp shot; and then!— Dumouriez, with force and firm front, looks on from a neighbouring height; can help only with his wis... ...sive, to the welkin, like rolling-fire from side to side: our ranks are as firm as rocks; and Brunswick may recross the dell, ineffectual; regain his ... ...on every Baker’s door-rabbet an iron ring, and coil of rope; whereon, with firm grip, on this side and that, we form our Queue: but mischievous deceit... ...ne another; still more because they seem to differ! Men’s words are a poor exponent of their thought; nay their thought itself is a poor exponent of t... ...in the early July days, there is a drumming and parading, a perorating and consulting: Staff and Army; Council; Club of Carabots, Anti-jacobin 148 Th...

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... splendor, but simply to the luxury of rapid motion. But Lord Altamont was firm in resisting this petition at that time. The remote consequence was, t... ...objects. In vain did Lady Carbery back me in this representation. He stood firm, and never once accompanied us to any dinner- party. Northamptonshire,... ...e, as I insisted, vulgar and trivial. Vulgar, that is, when put forward as exponents or adequate expressions of intellectual grandeur. The whole reste... ...hat distinction which ex- torted the rapturous admiration of Lipsius as an exponent of enormous wealth, but which I now mention as applying, with ruin... ... with ruinous effect, to the late calumnies upon Oxford, as an inseparable exponent of her meritorious discipline. She, most truly and severely an “Al... ...or even six hundred years after the birth of Christ, you find people still consulting the local Oracles of Egypt, in places sheltered from the point-b... ... away , or mocked with outrage and insult; but that they should be settled firmly on those foundations which Nature herself has furnished in abundance... ...dgrave now walked apart from the rest of the household, and were obviously consulting together on the next step to be taken, or on the proper moment f...

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... character of a vindictive proceeding to the whole affair, and so far con- firmed the current rumor that the quarrel between Williams and Marr had ori... ... his situation, being civil, and not at all morose, but, at the same time, firm in maintaining order; 2. Mrs. Williamson, his wife, about ten years yo... ...expected to see torn away by any strain upon the half-carious wood, stands firmly when tried against the pressure of his own weight. He has rapidly fa... ...o either. English people, to whom I have occasionally mentioned this as an exponent of the hollow refinement of manners in France, have uniformly excl... ... other man; by asking her repeatedly to select furniture for his house; by consulting her on his own plans of life.’ Q. ‘Did Epicurus maintain any doc...

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...ike towards God and man; the vague shoreless Universe had become for him a firm city, and dwelling which he knew. Such virtue was in Belief; in these ... ...the eye, and pride of life! So rolls and dances the Procession: steady, of firm assurance, as if it rolled on ada- mant and the foundations of the wor... ...gods; scarcely a Pa- triot or two will drive out so far, and bid you be of firm cour- age. You are in furnished lodgings, far from home and domes- tic... ...ssions, what they call pouvoirs, or pow- ers, in their pockets; inquiring, consulting; looking out for lodgings at Versailles. The States-General shal... ...from the Cha- teau, having now finished haranguing, sits with his Officers consulting: at five o’clock the unanimous best counsel is, that a man so to... ...e itself. There are men with ‘Tickets of Entrance;’ there are chiv- alrous consultings, mysterious plottings. Consider also whether, involve as it lik... ... another; still more because they seem to dif- fer! Men’s words are a poor exponent of their thought; nay their thought itself is a poor exponent of t...

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...re each man is drawn in a different direction); they must, therefore, most firmly decree and estab- lish that they will be guided in everything by rea... ...r they are bound to consult their own interests, and retain their power by consulting the public good and acting according to the dictates of reason, ... ...is whole heart determines to obey another’s commands; and consequently the firmest dominion belongs to the sovereign who has most influence over the m... ...over the minds of his subjects; if those who are most feared possessed the firmest dominion, the firmest dominion would belong to the subjects of a ty... ...ly elect Moses’s successor; for having transferred to Moses their right of consulting God, and abso- lutely promised to regard him as a Divine oracle,... ...im should wield the sole right of government, possessing the sole right of consulting God, and consequently of making and abrogating laws, of deciding... ..., the power of a sovereign may be, however implicitly it is trusted as the exponent of law and religion, it can never prevent men from forming judgmen...

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...They were so; and yet, with the single ex- ception of my healthy frame and firm animal organization, I feel that I have mentioned hitherto nothing but... ... of ours was waiting in her anteroom for the purpose of taking her turn in consulting the prophetess pro- fessionally, that she had witnessed a scene ... ...ading an of- fence, that contributed most of all to rob her of her natural firmness, by suddenly revealing to her terrified heart the depth of the con... ...ich she made in the same instant, and not one only, which had disarmed her firmness and ordinary presence of mind. One I have mentioned—the fact of Ba... ...s hardest to be understood of the two. If, finally, TIME be assumed as the exponent of the dreadful magnitudes, time combining itself with motion, as ... ...h Paley meant by final or remotest. But we could never use this idea as an exponent of integrity, or interchangeable criterion, because happiness cann...

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...nd. T ruly, a grain of seed that has lighted on the right soil! For if not firmer and fairer, it has grown to be taller and broader than any other tre... ...eeply important to modern minds, but for which our elder poetry offered no exponent, and perhaps could offer none, because they are feelings that aris... ...oats vaguely in darkness and regions of dreams, but rests in light, on the firm ground of human inter- est and business, as in its true scene, on its ... ...that they should have mar- ried. She afterwards thanked him deeply for the firmness with which he overcame a temptation to which she would have yielde... ... to her, replying that she could at once convince herself on that point by consulting the wise woman likewise; that I would do so myself, for I had lo...

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...sents itself to Labour almost invariably in a legal guise. The natural in- firmities of humanity rebel against an unimaginative legality of attitude, ... ...king fine pieces, or an artist of almost any sort, or a story writer, or a consulting physi- cian, or a scientific investigator, or a keeper of wild a... ...is, of mankind. With less arrogance and con- fidence, but it may be with a firmer faith, we declare that we believe a more spacious social order than ... ...you upon these points, and all you needed in any novel you read was a con- firmation, implicit or explicit, of these vivid, rather than charming, prej... ...t it would also necessarily take into itself all those large and grow- ing exponents of extra-parliamentary discontent that now darken the social futu...