Which preposition to use with circumstances
What the ideal-maker tries to do is to set holy standards that shall not pass away: to do abiding work, in thought, deed, word; work philosophically planned, and perseveringly carried out; work which he shall do regardless of the outer circumstances of his lifepoverty or wealth, of threats, misunderstanding, or hoots of scorn.
But," added he, after a short pause, "though to a superficial observer man appears to put on very different characters, to a philosopher he is every where the samefor he is every where moulded by the circumstances in which he is placed.
I reminded him of the peculiar circumstances under which our countrymen had commenced their career.
I've travelled on the cars in my day, when they made every thing gee again, but that kind o' goin' wasn't a circumstance to the way we tore along.
That reason which sets a measure to our souls in prosperity, will then suggest many things which we have seen and heard to moderate us in such sad circumstances as mine."
But in the interior they are placed in parallel circumstances with the natives of Europe: they are engaged in struggles for territory and dominionfor their altars and their homes; and this state of things, which has made some of them brave and warlike, has made none poets or painters, historians or philosophers.
We have progressed beyond being stirred by any little peccadillo such as the theft of a pig or a sheep, or even a watch or a purse, unless it contains a large amount, and was taken under the most aggravating circumstances from ourselves.
It is not improbable that the hint was taken from this circumstance for the anodyne necklaces, which, some time ago, were in such repute, as the Doctor, some little way further on, prescribes the same root for the looseness, fevers, and convulsions of children, during the time of teething, mixed, to make it appear more miraculous, with some elk's hoof.
" On account of the peculiar circumstances by which this dream was occasioned, it deserves the following short analysis.
Yet as it was daylight, and all was clear, I could not help noting one or two circumstances on my way.
Prudent conveys a sense of cautious foresight in judging the future and planning for it upon the basis of the circumstances at hand.
" "There is something so unusual and inexplicable in all this, Mr. Powis, that it strikes me you have been to blame, in not inquiring more closely into the circumstances than, by your own account I should think had been done.
With our arms covering the men, we woke them up, and told them that all they had to do was to walk out and drop their pistolswhich they saw was the best thing they could do under circumstances over which they had no controland you can just bet they did it.
This is especially the case with meadows circumstanced like the one we have describedembosomed in deep woods, with the ground rising gently away from it all around, the network of tree-roots in which all the ground is clasped preventing any rapid torrential washing.
How little did any of the actors of the scene suspect that a portentous Fate was overhanging them, and was so soon to transform all their present circumstances into others that were to be perfectly different!
Sir John French (now Field-Marshal Viscount French) himself had in the early days of the war pointed, out the great importance of securing the coast, but circumstances beyond his control were too powerful for him.
We have, therefore, says he, enlarged the Sphere of our Duty, and made many Things, which are in themselves indifferent, a Part of our Religion, that we may have more Occasions of shewing our Love to God, and in all the Circumstances of Life be doing something to please him.
And in both instances the contrasting modifications, from one extreme of glandular function to the other, supply us with the clue to the secret hand of their inner being and becoming, which worked upon the twists and turns of circumstance about them as a sculptor upon clay.
Had I known these circumstances before the completion 70 of my poem, I should have been tempted to add my feeble tribute of applause to the more solid recompense which the virtuous man finds in the recollection of his own motives.
Only, as I have represented thee to have been devoured by a tiger, thou wilt kindly say that I saved thy life, but concealed the circumstance out of modesty.
The Persons are such as might have acted what is ascribed to them, as the Circumstances in which they are represented, might possibly have been Truths and Realities.
Of her circumstances during her last years little can be discovered.
How could a man be shot dead under such circumstances without the murderer being seen and followed?" "You don't know Hull very well," remarked Allerdyke, who had been pulling his moustache and frowning over the telegram, "else you'd know how that could be done easy enough in High Street.
A telling circumstance against you, Ranelagh, not only contradicting your own story but showing that her after condition sprang from some sudden and extreme apprehension in connection with her sister.
Next morning a queer thing happened, but not uncommon under the circumstances among wolves and huskies.