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...genu- ine environment. Thus the activities of the astronomer vary with the stars at which he gazes or about which he calculates. Of his immediate surr... ...s for the deterioration of taste, just as mea- ger and barren surroundings starve out the desire for beauty. Against such odds, conscious teaching can... ...upon it, intelli- gently; I respond to a meaning which the thing has. I am startled by a thunderclap whether I recognize it or not— more likely, if I ... ... formed into instrumentalities of action, into means for securing ends. We start not so much with superior ca- pacities as with superior stimuli for e... ... attempts to provide a working represen- tative of the absolute goal. Both start from the concep- tion of a whole—an absolute—which is “immanent” in h...

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...iving ten dollars difference. The next day Mr. Payne, of Georgetown, and I started on our return. We got along very well for a few miles, when we enco... ...g into anything. After giving them a little rest, to quiet their fears, we started again. That instant the new horse kicked, and started to run once m... ...d took passage on a freight wagon for Maysville. Every time I attempted to start, 11 U. S. Grant my new horse would commence to kick. I was in quite ... ... but one, drawn 16 Personal Memoirs in, and after the time advertised for starting had expired. On this occasion we had no vexatious delays, and in a... ...ppi within a few days after the receipt of this order. About the time they started I obtained a leave of absence for twenty days to go to Ohio to visi...

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...s Youth and Art had shunned; they had no doubt “sighed deep, laughed free, Starved, feasted, de- spaired,” and we need not question, that they had als... ...nevitable that there should be. Of directer and more imme- diate models or starting-points one is undoubted; the other, though less generally admitted... ...ut the coach, it was not easy to get over this difficulty which Joseph had started. The two gentlemen complained they were cold, and could not spare a... ...Sure, sir,” says Joseph, “there is nothing in the bags.” Upon which Adams, starting, and testifying some surprize, cried, “Hey! fie, fie upon it! they... ...n as many shillings as it would change for.”—“Not to preserve my life from starving, nor to redeem it from a robber, would I part with this dear piece...

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...o furnish his parsonage in the very best style of clerical comfort, and to start him on the road of life rejoicing. So much did Lady Lufton do for her... ...of a former curate, another protege of Lady Lufton’s; and there was a big, staring, brick house, in which the present curate lived; but this was a ful... ...fore you go, will you?’ the wife asked on the following morning. He was to start after lunch on that day, driving himself in his own gig, so as to rea... ...what you earn, as lawyers and doctors do. It is better that curates should starve than undergo such ignominy as that. ’ ‘It is a long subject, Miss Du... ...Harold Smith, it was expedient that she should give way a little. ‘You can start at noon as it’s daylight, you know, if you like it, Mr Robarts, ’ she...

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... not buy. He had told her that she was a beggar, and that it was better to starve than to beg. She had borne the rebuke without a word in reply, and h... ...ut a word in reply, and had then begged again for him, and had endured the starvation herself. Nothing in their poverty had, for years past, been a sh... ... nobleman was more puissant, if broad acres, many castles, high title, and stars and ribbons are any sign of puissance—and she was now, herself, March... ...father since they were in the dining-room on the previous evening. When he started, the marchioness had not yet come downstairs; but at eleven she bre... ... twenty pounds. ‘What is a man to do,’ he said, ‘when he sees his children starving? He should not have married on such a preferment as that.’ Mr Craw...