The work of sages has been to rule the thinking of the race.

W., who had retired to a corner to practise a little by himself, told me that one of his friends, Comte de Pourtales, not at all of his way of thinking in politics, an Imperialist, was much pleased with a little jeu d'esprit he had made at his expense.

" "What do you mean by that?" Willie set forth Hector Macallaster's way of thinking about such matters.

These books do all the children's thinking for them.

If a teacher is to take handwork seriously, and not as a pretty recreation with pleasing results, she should be fully conscious of all that it means, and apply this definitely in her work: it is so easy to be trivial while appearing to be thorough by having well-finished work produced, which has necessitated little hard thinking on the child's part.

" It would seem by the saddened manner in which Willoughby moved away, that he was of the same way of thinking as the serjeant, on this melancholy subject.

But the constrained tone of the letter pained her, and excited her mind to that most unsatisfactory of all occupations, the thinking over what might have been.

It is only in extreme exigencies that pure thinking by a single person becomes a crime.

All this set her thinking to some purpose.

No swaying and swinging with Axel, no thinking with his head among the stars.

If the methods of science may be truly said to regulate our modes of thinking at the present time, it is no less true that, during the Renaissance, art exercised a like controlling influence.

John Randolph did some hard thinking during the weeks which followed Richard Trueman's death.

"Nay lady, indeedindeed I know of women noughtnought of myself, but I have heard tell that they belight-minded, using their beauty but to lure the souls of men from high and noble thingsmaking of love a jesta sport and pastime" But now the Duchess laughed, very soft and sweeter, far, to Beltane's thinking than the rippling music of any brook, soever.

Too frequent doses of original thinking from others, restrain what lesser portion of that faculty you may possess of your own.

In politics party-organization saves us the pains of much thinking before deciding how to cast our vote.

In my opinion it is not impossible that in the future this road, indeed abandoned at present, will once more be followed with good results, if only because it can lead to the thinking out of new experimental tests.

But though neither spoke, they looked at one another, each thinking within himself that he had never seen a more lusty fellow than the one across the board.

Yussuf did some thinking behind that genial Turkish mask of his.

" "Yes, I should say it was a very good thing for Alec to be as much under the influence of such a man as could be brought about, until he is where he can do his own thinking along the right lines.

"If one could put all his thinking into a few pages, that would be big work."...

Consider Lord Harcourtheir to the most sacred traditions of the party gamehurling scorn at a project that would introduce "faddists, mugwumps," and so on and so onin fact independent thinking meninto the legislature.

They're up against what we agreed to call Potterismthe Potterism, that is, of second-rate sentimentalism and cheap short-cuts and mediocrity; they stand for brain and clear thinking against muddle and cant; but they're fighting it with Potterite weaponsself-interest, following things for what they bring them rather than for the things in themselves.

" "And thou, who art a father, what has been thy manner of thinking under this insult?" Balthazar was meek by nature, and, as he had just said, he had been trained to the exercise of his functions; but he was capable of profound affections.

And, surely, this doth seem but a sane thinking unto me; but yet without proof, and to be said to you, only as the shapings of my thoughts.

This way of considering the Misfortunes which this Battle would bring upon Posterity, not only on those who were born immediately after the Battle and lost their Fathers in it, but on those also who [perished ] in future Battles which [took their rise ] from this Quarrel of the two Earls, is wonderfully beautiful, and conformable to the Way of Thinking among the ancient Poets. 'Audiet pugnas vilio parentum Rara juventus'.