A whimsical originality of mind comes out also in the curious "B" of "Boz" (No. 10).

Notice the originality in the position of the flourishes shown in No. 9, and compare the ungraceful movement of it with the much more dignified and pleasing flourishes in some of the later signatures.

Perhaps he wouldn't have done anything at all; he might have become, at best, a mediocre imitator of the great masters in what they have already done to a finish, or one of the modern innovators who strive after originality by seeing how cleverly they can dodge about through the rules of harmony and at the same time avoid melody.

I gained much by my delay in publishing from about 1839, when the theory was clearly conceived, to 1859; and I lost nothing by it, for I cared very little whether men attributed more originality to me or to Wallace; and his essay no doubt aided in the reception of the theory.

Of less power and originality than Swift, he nevertheless wields, and deserves to wield, a more lasting influence.

There was an air of originality about the manner and the man.

Even where he seems dull and common-place, his brightness and originality at other times make it look like a good-natured condescension to our own common habits of thought and discourse; as though he did it but on purpose to leave nothing unsaid that could bring him within the category of ourselves.

As the book which bears my name claimed no originality for any of its doctrines, and was not intended to write their history, the only author who had preceded me in their assertion, of whom I thought it appropriate to say anything, was Humboldt, who furnished the motto to the work; although in one passage I borrowed from the Warrenites their phrase, the sovereignty of the individual.

But short of such an impossible independence of the past, Benedict de Spinoza had perhaps as much originality as any man who ever lived.

'He certainly does not encourage originality among those who surround him.

And these are quite a fair specimen of his originality during those wonderful days.

No two authors spelled alike at that time, however, and the literature of the day was characterized by the most startling originality along that line.

Yet, with all the freedom and originality with which he wrought out the new advent, he was perhaps rather too timid than too bold in his reforms,adhering too strictly to the original letter of Greek examples, especially with regard to the orders.

Time-tables must be approved by the proper authorities, and the superintendents and inspectors must be satisfied as to the character of a teacher's work, but, when those conditions are fulfilled, originality on the part of teachers is welcomed, and completely happy relations between teacher and children are possible.

He brings wit and originality into these essays on plants, lakes, spiders, etc.