The ordinary domestic life of the Indian is described in plain words and phrases, but whatever is mysterious or abstract must be brought under mythological figures and influences.
Hitherto, Indian opinion, onabstract subjects, has been a sealed book.
All the morning Mr. Hater and the boy did shut up themselves at my house doing something towards the finishing the abstract book of our contracts for my pocket, which I shall now want very much.
Up, and betimes to the office, where Mr. Hater and I together all the morning about the perfecting of my abstract book of contracts and other things to my great content.
An all too brief abstract of her story will be found in the chapter on Feminine Education.
There can be little doubt that if effective mathematical symbols had been devised the abstract sciences would have made even greater progress than they did in early Egypt.
This enabled them to make further progress in the abstract sciences.
They were led to these by the tendencies of the Greek mind to abstract thought and philosophical investigations.
Family pride is a stronger influence than abstract justice, isn't it?
Will you take this to her, for the sake of--'abstract justice'?
He led the conversation away from abstract subjects after a time, and fell into two or three small errors, but had wit to see and cover them.
Taste as to details may differ according to temperament, nationality, and social condition, but, broadly speaking, this delightful person with his eccentric combination of qualities figures in the abstract affections of all women.
A---- says there is no definite, abstract standard of beauty or perfection.
She had never taken kindly to the idea of marriage in the abstract as did the majority of women she saw about her.
Oak, almost before he had comprehended anything beyond the briefest abstract of the event, hurried out of the room, saddled a horse and rode away.
It was Wisdom in the abstractfacing Folly in the concrete.
Women write good letters because they are sympathetic; because they take personal rather than abstract views; because they stay at home a great deal and are interested in little things and fond of exchanging confidences and news.
The drama, in the abstractand as a form of literature, is of an ancient house and a noble.
Now, man likes to use his senses, and it is for this reason that he is fond of using for these abstract ideas, symbols that he can see and feel.
The Church of Christ always has understood and used this property of the visible and tangible symbol to enforce the claims of the abstract idea.
To those of authority and learning, he ought himself to exhibit them with all facility, courteously explaining their beauty and remarkable characteristics, the handwriting and miniatures, but observant that such abstract no leaves.
They should then be mounted and bound up in volumes, with abstract of contents in front of the volume.
Perhaps I should even have desired such reserve on abstractgrounds of feeling.
Few minds are strong enough first to abstract and then to generalize the characters of paintings hung at random.
With these illustrations of cohesion we may return again to the abstract consideration of this power with reference to water, in which we have noticed that the antagonist to this kind of attraction is the force or power termed caloric or heat.
Again music, not the music nor the symbolism of the emotions, but the abstract music of design.
Dugald Stewart, though mayhap less an original in the domain of abstract thought than some of his predecessors, belongs emphatically to the practical school.
Especially take the same ground in regard toabstract truth, the science of the mind.
Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.
I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye anabstract truth, and I cannot.
But of course they did not spend three hours discussing abstract theories.
When ye come to a determination of abstract qualities, his pagan beliefs are as good for him as the God of the Bible.
He is sent by the wife of his master to abstract the earrings of the wife of King Paushyas.
But into the place where it was laid, the chest having been taken away by a young prince, a tiger enters; the unworthy husband turns up himself to abstract the chest, and is torn to pieces by the tiger.
A good prose abstract of the poem, somewhat rearranged.
For further general information respecting the poem itself we will refer to the Introduction, and will now proceed to give a short abstract of the principal contents of the cantos, before proceeding to a more detailed analysis.
Instead of inflaming our passions against the abstract wrongfulness of holding fellow-men in bondage, we should consider that theoretical justice to the slaves as a whole would be practical inhumanity.
If freedom in the abstract is the best thing under the sun, of course you will prefer it to everything else.
Here my mind gets relief in contemplating this subject, not in abstract reasoning, not in logical premises and deductions, but by resting in Providence.
I do not refer to the bill of a hawk, or a heron, or an owl, or an ostrich, but to that which is the abstract of all these and a thousand more.
And if you abstract yourself from individuals and look at that thing, the ear, in the wide field of life, what a great, living reality it is!
But I am justified in committing a murder by myself, if I do not forbid it to myself, if I am not afraid of murder in the abstract as of 'something wrong.
He did not suspect or notice that he had done nothing more than express theabstract formula of existing relationships, the most general conception of the liberal scheme of economics.
To him the Anarchist theory appears to be nothing but a necessary adaptation of social science to that modern tendency in all other sciences which, leaving on one side abstract and collective generality, turn to the individual, as, e.
Under the aegis of freedom you become free from many things, but become subject again to some new thing; you are free from the Evil One, but abstract evil still remains.
It is too abstract a conception of personality on which to base a definition of justice.
The idea of humanity in the abstract has been attained as a moral ideal.
In last analysis Kant is trying to derive moral enlightenment from the most abstract principle of formal logic, the principle of Identity, that A is A!
Corporations organized for this purpose "have no souls," because they consist of merely the abstract economic interests.
Thus James says: "Whether the dog has the notion of your being angry or of your property being valuable in any such abstract way as we have these notions, is more than doubtful.
According to his logic, all general and abstract terms, all words designating relations rather than elements, are "fictitious entities.
Man comes into contact with others for the most part in an abstract way.
Their abstract form, the man's attitude towards the good, remains the same.
This was not stated by the Hebrew in abstract terms, but in the personal language of love to God.
Although legally they may be subjects of rights and duties, they have but one motive, and are thus so abstract as to be morally impersonal.
In all these cases it is of course no abstract theory of crime which leads the community to react; it is self-preservation.
It translates the formal and empty reason of Kant out of its abstract and theoretic character, just as it carries the cold calculations of utilitarianism into recognition of the common good.
The utilitarian account of the development of the consciousness of duty or its emphasis upon concrete facts of social arrangements and education affords a much-needed supplement to the empty and abstract formalism of Kant.
