You see the play thus altered is eminently probable, not to say realistic.

Even man's moral obligations, which are admitted, imply no real freedom in the shaping of results, for though man has the choice between pursuing his end voluntarily (which is virtue) or kicking against the pricks (which is vice), the sum total of his accomplishments is not altered by his choice: ducunt volentern fata, nolentem trahunt.

I now noticed with some anxiety that Malak's quiet and undemonstrative manner had completely altered to one of swaggering insolence and bravado.

I now find him so much altered for the better, and Farmer Tomkyns gives me such a good account of his behaviour, that I am quite ready to give him a trial.

Hamsun has returned, as it were, to the scene of his passionate youth, but in altered guise.

The last week has altered him frightfully.

"With this resolution he again altered his course, so as to strike the road leading to Mr. Young's.

I resolved, therefore, to fix his Face in my Memory for the future; but as I was walking in the Park the same Evening, he appeared to me in one of those Wiggs that I think you call a Night-cap, which had altered him more effectually than before.

C. F. Can we, then, always preserve that order of arrangement which we desire to adopt? C. P. Surely not; for the ears of the hearers are guides to a wise and prudent orator; and whatever is unpleasing to them must be altered or modified.

Forms have changed and words have altered,

The Science of Knowledge (the world a product of the ego) enters as it is into the later form of the Fichtean philosophy; the latter gives up none of the fundamental positions of the former, but only adds to it a culmination, by which the appearance of the building is altered, it is true, but not the edifice itself.

He adds to this an astonishing mobility of thought, in virtue of which every offered suggestion is at once seized and worked into his own system, though in this the previous standpoint is unconsciously exchanged for a somewhat altered one.

First of all, the doctrine of the divine potencies and of creation is repeated in altered form, and then there is given a philosophy of the history of religion as a reflection of the theogonic process in human consciousness.

" "It is a great pity; but that may be altered with time.

Since I sent you an account of Picton's Monument at Carmarthen, it has been altered.

It was with altered eyes that she must look on the poor girl, the victim of such an unheard-of fatality.

Even if it had, I doubt very much if my course would have been altered, for I was bewitched and fascinated and thrilled with the excitement of it all.

It had not altered in the least.

[Footnote 2: Mr. Carroll said, in explanation of the vote of Maryland, that he wished the phraseology to be so altered as to obviate, if possible, the danger which had been expressed of giving umbrage to the Eastern and Middle States.]

No man knows all this better than Mr. Collier; and yet we are called upon to believe that he, meaning to obtain authoritative position for the marginal readings in this folio, by making them appear to have been written by a contemporary of Shakespeare's later years, altered vild to vile in three passages of a single play, though he thereby made not the slightest shade of difference in the meaning of the passage!

Upon revisal, I altered and transcribed one of them, and, joining it with two others, despatched them together to the editor of a magazine.

A few years previous to the period in which our tale opens, an event occurred which altered the course of Captain Ellice's life, and for a long period plunged him into the deepest affliction.

You say that my nature is altered, "I've forgotten the how and the when, That my voice which was best when it faltered" Is rough by my converse with men: Believe me that still you will find me Of lovers the truest of all, And the spell that has bound still shall bind me, And I'll come, dearest girl, to your Ball.

"You have found it?" said she, reading the news in the altered expression of his face.

In this country, however, most of the Grand Lodges have altered this regulation, and the Wardens succeed according to seniority to the chair of the absent Grand Master and Deputy, in preference to any Past Grand Officer.