And indeed such can receive no possible harm from its perusal, beyond a little temporary perplexity to be dispelled by inquiry; and this only in the case of those who are sufficiently instructed and reflective to perceive the discord in question.

And similarly those who have received the faith by tradition, who for years have assumed it in their daily conduct as a matter of course, in whom therefore it has become an ingrained psychological habit, who hold it, in what might be condemned as a narrow, unintellectual fashion, are just the very people who will fight and die for it, when its more cultivated and reflective professors waver, temporize, and fall away.

The story of a soul's passage from darkness to light, of its wanderings, vacillations, doubts, and temptations, must necessarily exercise a strong fascination over all minds of a reflective cast: "The development of a soul!" says Browning, "little else is worth study.

His eyes were a bluish gray, and looked out upon the world with a reflective attention through gold-rimmed eye-glasses, with which he had a habit of amusing himself while talking, examining their mechanism and the knot of the fine black cord with a bat-like air of blindness.

"I have often wondered why I have never clashedwith Evasio Mon," Sarrion once said to his son in the reflective quiet of their life at Torre Garda.

"But he will lie badly," murmured Marcos, with his leisurely reflective smile.

Do you understand, Smithy?" Smith sat silent and reflective for a while, then: "You say that her theory is that everybody owns one of those psychic currents?"

I subjoin two or three of them, to show what a tendency there is to frivolity and meaningless talk in young persons of a certain sort, when not restrained by the presence of more reflective natures.

Mr. Dawson balanced the package on two fingers for a reflective instant, then he snapped the string and opened the package.

Arnold has been called "the poet of the Universities," because of the reflective scholarly thought in his verse.

Goethe, on the contrary, wrote for readers, or cultivated, reflective hearers, not spectators.....

But leaving here Tennyson's speculations and beliefs,a most interesting part of the poet's analytical and reflective character,let us look for a little at the man personally, and record briefly the chief incidents in his quiet though ideal home-life.

Zooming in on one small section revealed details and textures reflective of those on other levels of magnification.

Really, it is quite unbearable!" Growler was quite indignant; but, being of a reflective turn, after the first gust of wrath had passed, he asked: "But was there no particular cause this morning?

Its distance from us and unfavourable position for observation must prevent us from obtaining any detailed knowledge of its actual surface, though its low reflective power indicates that the surface may be really visible.]

The Bromide is reflective, and the object is thrown back unchanged, unanalyzed; it is accepted without interrogation.

The very spirit of the old ballad writers, with their combinations of mysticism and objectivity, their freedom from any self-conscious attempt at reflective epithets or figures, runs through them all.

We are never jarred in them, as we are in all the attempts at ballad-writing and ballad-restoring before Mr. Tennyson's time, by discordant touches of the reflective in thought, the picturesque in Nature, or the theatric in action.

Yet although his monologue gave me an entirely new conception of life, no more of it lingers in my mind, save his last reflective criticism.

" Jack's eyes had worn a somewhat reflective look since he had gone to make the inquiry.

The hour can not be far away, when upright and reflective minds at the South will be astonished at the blindness which could welcome such protection as the Princeton argument offers to the slaveholder.

Its chairs matched its reflective sheen.

The deep green of the highly reflective metal hull was marvelously soothing to the eye.

She addressed her married daughter, a quiet young woman who reproduced Mrs. Charman's good-natured countenance, with something more of intelligence, the reflective serenity of a higher type.

To the reflective person it will be manifest that Moussa's reverence for the sanctity of human life received but little encouragement or development from the very beginning....