This constitution of the atmosphere, and its capability of dilating objects, and altering their position by reflection and refraction, will easily account for many phenomena which have been considered miraculous and preternatural in early ages, by the ignorant; and in our own, by the weak and superstitious.

After some time the capability of speaking much again forsook him; yet he lingered some months longer, and when M.Y. beheld him soon after our arrival, he appeared like a precious lamb purified, and waiting to be gathered to the everlasting fold.

Heaven's vastest capability.

The coolness, the power of hitting, above all the capability of taking punishment, count for so much.

It was at the close of an autumn day that Anna, who had been walking since early morning with scarcely an interval of rest, found herself, in spite of her great capability of enduring fatigue, somewhat foot-sore and weary on arriving at the town of .

It was the wife of the famous Mondragon who commanded the place in her husband's absence; and by her heroism gave a new proof of the capability of the sex to surpass the limits which nature seems to have fixed for their conduct.

The old inflections, genders, formative prefixes, and capability of making self-explaining compounds were for the most part lost.

With more majesty and grandeur his character arose before her; for now in all the past, as she surveyed it, she beheld a living power, a capability, and a necessity of new and grand significance, and her heart reverenced the spirit she had nursed into being.

This Shylock fils Sarah proceeds to describe as equally beautiful with Abel and Moses, which seems to give Shylock père great comfort,though I am bound to admit the lowly whispered doubt on the part of a pit-neighbor of mine as to Sarah's capability of judging in the matter.

She was but a woman, sheer woman, with the woman's one capability, and the exercise of that denied her.

We do not mean, nor do we know, that his hold over women as his readers is greater than his command or influence over men; but that he has studied, sounded, painted woman in form, in motion, in character, in office, in capability, with rare devotion, power, and skill; and the poet who best achieves this end does also most and best for man.

In conformity to this law, Frederick the Great, through superior tactical capability and striking strength, had always the upper hand of an enemy far more powerful in mere numbers.

They tell us that there is the same infection of nature, the same capability of sin, in us, that there was of old.

But, as she said the other day, putting on what Evan calls her "capability-for-better-things" air, "One's scope is so limited here, and one never can tell whom one may meet in New York," which is, of course, perfectly true.

The services of regularly qualified lady physicians are now eagerly sought, not only in the United States, where they in later times first proved their capability, but also in foreign countries.

No fearful calamity having ensued as a consequence of the admission of ladies to one university, others also began slowly, and with great caution, to open their doors to them; and now their admission on the same footing as their brothers to the same universities, and their capability to complete the same curriculum is no longer an experiment, but an established fact.

Rejoice that the noblest capability of your eternal inheritance has been made known to you; treasure it, as the highest honor of your being, that ever you could so feel,that so divine a guest ever possessed your soul.

I know how great a thing I am asking, but I also know your generous nature, your steadfastness, your capability to carry through discreetly and swiftly any undertaking you engage in.

BROWN, Launcelot, (Capability), account of him, iii. 400, n. 2; improves Blenheim park, ii.

CHATHAM, William Pitt, Earl of, Boswell, correspondence with, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1; Capability Brown, account of, iii. 400, n. 2; Cardross, Lord, offers a post to, ii. 177; Cumming the Quaker's account of him, v. 98, n. 1; Dictator, iii.

128; 'born a Briton', i. 129, n. 3, 353; v. 204; Boswell's relation, v. 379; Capability Brown, intimacy with, iii. 400, n. 2; carelessness in sentences of death, iii. 121, n. 1; Chatham's and Garrick's funerals, iv.

Negative capability; the intuitive approach in Keats.

Some of the songs and stories of this race seem to reveal even a capability for romantic love such as would do credit to a modern novel.

In sculpture as in literature, where appreciators are possibly more numerous, we must admit that knowledge and capability or even sincerity are rarely of any weight in the balance of the grand juries of history or in the verdicts of contemporaries.

No doubt he was fond of his niece in accordance with his own capability for fondness.