Dr. Johnson once observed, that what might be wonderful dancing for a dog would be a very poor performance for a Christian; and so, to us, "Helbeck" as a presentment of Catholic life is wonderful as coming from an outsider, and, perhaps, especially from Mrs. Humphrey Ward, but in itself it is grotesque enoughnot through any culpable infidelity to facts, but through lack of the visual power, the guiding idea, whereby to read them aright.

The view of an insider is as partial as the view of an outsider, though less viciously so; nor can we get at truth by the simple expedient of fitting the two together.

These considerations explain why One Poor Scruple seems to us so far truer a presentment of Catholic life than Helbeck of Bannisdalethe difference lying in the incommunicable advantage which an insider possesses over an outsider in understanding the spirit and principles by which the members of any social body are governed.

Of all religions, Catholicism which represents the accumulated results of two thousand years' worldwide experience of human nature applied to the principles of the Gospel, is least likely to be comprehended by an outsider, however observant and fair-minded.

Yet so excessive in quantity is the secondary cultus compared with the primary, that an outsider may well be pardoned for thinking that there is nothing beyond what meets the eye on every side.

"If I answer you as an outsider, a passer-bymind, though, one who thinks about men and womenI should say try one of her lesser sins, one of the sins that leaves you clean.

And so it was that, in spite of the entertainment she afforded, and a certain kind of respect in which her "smartness" was held, Becky was considered as rather an outsider, and an object of more or less suspicion.

He perceived that this was no meddler, but a man speaking of something very near his heart; no presuming and interfering outsider who deserved a snub, but a man suffering from some deep and hidden cause.

An outsider, being unprejudiced by anxiety, could judge more fairly.

"Perhaps I was extravagant, but if you don't want to be an outsider, you must do like the rest, and I understood you expected me to make friends among our own set.

Fanny Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, kept by her in the very year of Douglass's escape from bondage, but not published until 1863, too late to contribute anything to the downfall of slavery, is a singularly clear revelation of plantation life from the standpoint of an outsider entirely unbiased by American prejudice.

He had left the house of Mr. Hunt, the outsider at that time of Eastern Maine, with a squad of lumbermen, and with them tramped up the furrow of a land-avalanche to the top, spending wet and ineffective days in the dripping woods, and vowing then to return and study the mountain from our present camping-spot.

When I tell you how to fire an engine you will understand how important it is, The poor engineer is very apt to ask an outsider to stay at his engine while he goes to the separator to talk.

Even if the outsider is a good engineer, he does not know whether the pump is throwing more water than is being used or whether it is throwing less.

There may be a box or journal that has been giving the engineer trouble and the outsider knows nothing about it.

And what she had not found it possible to try to make clear to him was that the man who mended the boats seemed to her anything but an outsider.

She looked up at him with a faint smile, smiling at the fancy of his being an outsider.

But all in vain, and Madam Conway heard the discomfited outsider say, "They told me Theodoshy's grandmarm was here, but I guess she's in the street.

" It was a temptation to that aloof and isolated, yet anything but lonely or lonesome, household to discuss this new and strange phenomenonthe intrusion of an outsider, and he a young man.

Judge Torrey, the only outsider, was putting into form the speech he intended to make at the wedding breakfast.

THE OUTSIDER, a play in three acts by Dorothy Brandon.

The Inside story of an outsider.

But now enters the mischief-maker in the piece, a stranger, an ignorant outsider.

T. Sandys was invited to join the society, but declined, and thus never quite knew what they did, nor can any outsider know, there being a regulation among the Tommies against telling.

When it comes to treating of his relationship with Wilkinson all that can be said is that no single statement ever made by either man, whether during the conspiracy or after it, whether to the other or to an outsider, can be considered as either presumptively true or presumptively false.