There is in him something of the Stoic god, as I can see now: he has neither heart nor head.

I am an appreciable factor in universal development and a being of elemental power.

There were of course all sorts of meetings and conversations at our house, with Leon Say, Jules Ferry, Casimir Perier, and others.

Probably there was at the back of his attentions to Mrs Ottley a vague idea that he wanted to get her on his sidethat she might be a useful ally; but he was always charming to elderly women, and inclined to be brusque with younger ones, excepting Edith; he remembered his own mother with so great a cult of devotion, and his late wife with such a depressed indifference.

"How long I could have withstood the corrosive effects of my hopeless passion, irritated as it was by my being in the vicinity of its objectby hearing perpetually of her beauty, and sometimes catching a glimpse of it,I know not; but the Omrah, after a few months spent with his father-in-law, returned with his bride to his castle in the country.

That's all there is to it."

and yet there was with me, all the way, and all the time, one who can talk, reason, philosophise, understand things as well as you or I; and one, to all appearance, as much and distinctly human as you or I." "Impossible!"

If it be for His glory and the advantage of His cause there to let another join in it, I will be grateful.

Or, if you be on a holiday, you strain yourself on the sights of the city, against being caught in an omission.

The sun went down with one swift, clear plunge, and there was about me, for a few seconds, the darker growing grey of the gloaming.

There was quite as much difference between the quiet moderate men of the Left Centre and the extreme Left as there was between the Legitimists and any faction of the Republican party.

To the east of these hills the dress of the common people is of coarse materials, as in our country of Ts'in, but here also there were among them the differences of fine woollen cloth and of serge or haircloth.

If the refined and pure-minded lady does not pity such beings as that, I know not of what her refinement is made.

I cannot tell you of it, nor make you believelet it pass Then by a slow process of successive perceptions I became aware that I was watched by other eyes, other wax figures, other human beings with unwavering gaze.

Mercer on a matter of this sort was a different being from the decayed landlord of the water-side tavern.

" "There is from Sprotsfield.

" The surpriseit might almost have been taken for alarmwhich he had shown at the first sight of Alec seemed to have given place to a gentle and amiable weariness, which persisted through the recital of the Captain's experienceshow his errand of courtesy, or gallantry, had led to his being on the road across the heath so late at night, and of what he had seen there.

There are in that whitish tract which separates the countries on the southern shores of the Mediterranean from the rest of Africa, thousands of human beings at this moment toiling over that dreary ocean of sand, to whom a draught of fresh water would be a blessing, and the simplest meal a luxury.

The number of books in the mosque is unknown, unless it be by God.

But when I am told that I must believe this, and at the same time call this being by the names which express and affirm the highest human morality, I say in plain terms that I will not.

That a scion of such blood as this has reduced a fellow-being to a condition of inanimate protoplasm, is to be regretted for his sake; but more for that of a country in which the philosophy of COMTE finds in a corrupt radical pantarchy all-sufficient first-cause of whatsoever is rotten in the State of Denmark."

While Mr. Tylor asserts "that no savage tribe of monotheists has ever been known," but that all ascribe the attributes of deity to other beings than the Almighty Creator, it appears in fact that many of the rudest savages "are as monotheistic as some Christians.

Your histories, your books on philosophy, your whole literature, glorify the State; and you have accepted the dangerous doctrine that the individual exists to serve the State, forgetting that the State is not the mystical, divine thing you picture it, but a government carried on by human beings like yourselves, most of them reasonably upright, but some incompetent and others deliberately bad, just like any other human government.

Russia has always had a latent force of development; there is within her a vis inertiae equivalent to a mysterious energy of expansion.

"But just think, Aunt Linnyif Ophelia, instead of going mad so prettily, and dying in a way to break everybody's heart, had soberly set herself to consider that there were as fine fish yet in the sea as ever were caught, and that it was best, therefore, to cheer up and wait for better times!