They satisfy, it would seem, in perfection, that mysterious instinct of devotionthat inborn craving to look upward and adore, which, let false philosophy say what it will, proves the most benighted idolater to be a man, and not a brutea spirit, and not a merely natural thing.

In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway.

For example, James Martineau, while a Christian philosopher, discusses the question of veracity as a philosopher, rather than as a Christian, in his "Types of Ethical Theory;" and he insists that "veracity is strictly natural, that is, it is implied in the very nature which leads us to intercommunion in speech.

Which was humanly natural, but more than maddeningto Racey.

He remained unaffectedly natural, and in a true sense Christian.

You have slipt in your rhymes as if they grew there, so natural-artificially, or artificial-naturally.

From being kind and indulgent, she was exacting and imperious: an old and scarcely natural dislike of her son seemed to be reawakened, and which she now took little pains to conceal.

" "Well," replied the Doctor, "while it may be curious, it is exceedingly natural.

" "It seems to me the most delightfully natural thing in the world," said Bellew, in his slow, grave manner.

We find one transported with a Passage, which another runs over with Coldness and Indifference, or finding the Representation extreamly natural, where another can perceive nothing of Likeness and Conformity.

[Footnote 2: wonderfully natural]

"And he could say the most nakedly natural things.

The gradual progress which Iago makes in the Moor's conviction, and the circumstances which he employs to inflame him, are so artfully natural, that, though it will, perhaps, not be said of him as he says of himself, that he is "a man not easily jealous," yet we cannot but pity him, when at last we find him "perplexed in the extreme.

She had a peculiar swing in her gait, caused by a long stride rarely natural to so slight a figure.

And so between these separate social aggregates arises the feeling of Ishmael and the spirit of Cain, warfare becomes the chronic and seemingly natural relation of societies to each other, and the powers of men are expended in attack or defense, in mutual slaughter and mutual destruction of wealth, or in warlike preparations.

The hair on head and beard is singularly natural; one feels it to be characteristic of the person.

"I like this Mr. Denbigh greatly," said Lord Chatterton, as they drove from the door; "there is something strikingly natural and winning in his manner.

Now, in a while, the Maid did come to composedness, and to be very gentle and sweetly natural.

" This is one of the most terribly natural pictures of agonised astonishment ever painted.]

Shall we, then, be so untrue to our craft,shall we, in short, be so unguardedly natural, as to confess that "Bitter-Sweet" has surprised us?

At war with all former experience it was so novel, so unnaturally natural, that I feel while now writing and thinking of it, as if my own senses might have deceived me with a mere figment of the imagination.

* Wednesday, February 25.Today, Goethe showed me two very remarkable poems, both highly moral in their tendency, but in their several motives so unreservedly natural and true, that they are of the kind which the world styles immoral.

It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.

But improve conditions, whether by law or otherwise, and you will have a more independent "spunky" child, a better prospect of having him, when grown up, a more wholesomely natural rebel.

In particular she played one episode, the trying over of a new song, in a winningly natural manner.