Hence too were derived his profusion to favourites, his attachment to strangers, the variableness of his conduct, his hasty resentments, and his sudden forgiveness and return of affection.

Yet this variableness of standard seems inherent in the nature of things.

Variableness must ever be the characteristic of a currency of which the precious metals are not the chief ingredient, or which can be expanded or contracted without regard to the principles that regulate the value of those metals as a standard in the general trade of the world.

He is "without variableness or shadow of turning."

He is "without variableness or shadow of turning."

But let me except always the few steadily luminous spirits I know, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

And this devotion ran on, without variableness or shadow of turning, year after year, giving itself no rest until her eyes were closed in death.

" The gentle moon, as she sheds her borrowed light from the blue chambers of the sky, throwing her silver mantle overnight's sable form, performs her varied evolutions without "variableness or shadow of turning."

To all names worthy to be known, it is natural to wish a perpetual uniformity; but if any one thinks the variableness of these to be peculiar, let him open the English Bible of the fourteenth century, and read a few verses, observing the names.

He was not always so, for his curiously undeveloped nature was subject to moods which were almost childish in their variableness.

The problem is thus set to the child's understanding: how to reconcile to his comprehension the apparently contradictory facts of the invariableness of the object together with the variableness of its appearance.

The Variableness of Fashion turns the Stream of Business which flows from it now into one Channel, and anon into another; so that different Sets of People sink or flourish in their turns by it.

These two portraits illustrate the variableness of the painter; both were probably done about the same timethe one seemingly con amore, the other left unfinished, as though the artist or his sitter were dissatisfied.

The long winters, the persistent rains, the dampness, the variableness of the climate, obliged the Hollander to stay within doors the greater part of the year.