39823 examples of nature in sentences

His losing the stolen money in the hollow of a tree, and finding it again when he was in despair, and then being in equal distress at not knowing how to dispose of it, and several similar touches in the early history of the Colonel, evince a deep knowledge of human nature; and, putting out of question the superior romantic interest of the latter, in my mind very much exceed Crusoe.

My dear Miss LambI have enclosed for you Mr. Payne's piece called Grandpapa, which I regret to say is not thought to be of the nature that will suit this theatre; but as there appears to be much merit in it, Mr. Kemble strongly recommends that you should send it to the English Opera House, for which it seems to be excellently adapted.

I do now sit under my own vine, and contemplate the growth of vegetable nature.

Words phrases fashions pass away; But Truth and nature live through all.

unletter'd minds to sway, It is not these that most display Thy sweetest charms, thy gentlest thrall, Words, phrases, fashions, pass away, But TRUTH and NATURE live through all.

A visit to Lamb's cottage to-day, bearing in mind that the ribbon of green between iron railings that extends along Colebrooke Row was at that time an open stream, will make the nature of G.D.'s misadventure quite plain.

They are full of quaint conceits, and running over with good humour and good nature.

He is a humble disciple at the foot of Gamaliel S.T.C. Judge how his own sectarists must stare when I tell you he has dedicated a book to S.T.C., acknowledging to have learnt more of the nature of Faith, Christianity, and Christian Church, from him than from all the men he ever conversed with.

He there acknowledges his obligation to S.T.C. for his knowledge of Gospel truths, the nature of a Xtian Church, etc., to the talk of S.T.C. (at whose Gamaliel feet he sits weekly)

But that tumultuousness is passing off, and I begin to understand the nature of the gift.

[Illustration: Handrawn sketch] neither altogether, it is that beautiful compound, which Nature must have made in Paradise Park venison, before she separated the two substances, the dry & the oleaginous, to punish sinful mankind; Adam ate them entire & inseparate, and this little taste of Eden in the knuckle bone of a fried... seems the only relique of a Paradisaical state.

This and the connected tale of Io, which is but the sequel of the Prometheus, stand alone in the Greek Mythology, in which elsewhere both Gods and Men are mere Powers and Products of Nature.

I do not know that among your many kind presents of this nature this is not my favourite volume.

It is the most ungenial part of the Year, cold crocuses, cold primroses, you take your blossoms in Ice a painted Sun Unmeaning joy around appears, And Nature smiles as if she sneers.

The mention of Greece fills the mind with the most exalted sentiments and arouses in our bosoms the best feelings of which our nature is susceptible.

But while his daily habits presented scarcely any visible change, Marner's inward life had been a history and a metamorphosis as that of every fervid nature must be when it has been condemned to solitude.

Poor Marner went out with that despair in his soulthat shaken trust in God and man which is little short of madness to a loving nature.

He was of a very firm, not to say obstinate disposition, but there was no brute-like rebellion or recklessness in his nature; the human sensibilities predominated, and he was anxious to acquire Mr. Stelling's approbation by showing some quickness at his lessons, if he had known how to accomplish it.

We had not, however, lived one month together before I plainly perceived the curate's wife had taken a great prejudice against my wife, though my Amelia had treated her with nothing but kindness, and, with the mischievous nature of envy, spread dislike against us.

Mr. Abraham Adams was an excellent scholar, a man of good sense and good nature, but at the same time entirely ignorant of the ways of the world.

" When, however, Adams began to describe the nature of his sermons the bookseller drew back, on the ground that the clergy would be certain to cry down such a book.

Rush from the troubled clouds, and o'er me roll; In this chill pause a deeper horror lies, A wilder fear appals my shudd'ring soul. 'Twas on this day[A], this hour accurst, That Nature starting from repose Heard the dire shrieks of murder burst From infant innocence they rose, And shook these solemn towers!

He saw that he had owed some duty to this son of his,that neither law nor custom could destroy a responsibility inherent in the nature of mankind.

Mr. GOUVERNEUR MORRIS was compelled to declare himself reduced to the dilemma of doing injustice to the Southern States, or to human nature; and he must therefore do it to the former.

Some sort of comeliness, picturesque though rude, showed in the scant attempts to modify nature in the arrangement of the grounds.

39823 examples of  nature  in sentences