The hypothesis of the independent creation of all species, irrespective of their antecedents, leaves this fact just as mysterious as is creation itself; that of derivation undertakes to account for it.
Ennui, like Natural Selection, accounted for change, but failed to account for direction of change.
For this, one was in some degree prepared, for the old man had been a stage-type since drama began; but one felt some perplexity toaccount for failure on the opposite or mechanical side, where nothing but cerebral action was needed.
This sudden blossoming of youth in the heart of a stockbroker, of an old man, is one of the social phenomena which must be left to physiology to account for.
I scarcely know how to account for it; but, though I anxiously wished to do this, my resolution always failed, when the moment approached, and I constantly deferred my visit.
But I know not why I should undertake to account for so trifling an occurrence.
As usual, I am not able fully to account for my liking of these books, and I am so far from wishing to justify it that I think I ought rather to excuse it.
I used to talk with the machinist about them, and with the organ-builder, and with my friend the printer, but no one seemed to feel the intense fascination in them that I did, and that I should now be quite unable to account for.
This, however, I must own, had not a great deal to do with my liking him so much, and I should be puzzled to account for my passion, as much in his case as in most others.
But none of the passions are reasoned, and I do not try to account for my literary preferences or to justify them.
She knew now that he was plotting to obtain her fortune, and she would be forced to yield it to him; that he had squandered his brother's fortune, and was now frightened at the prospect of having to account for it.
The marquis was about fifty years of age, more worn than his years would account for, yet younger than his years in expression, for his conscience had never bitten him very deep.
But his features had a graver impress than his age seemed to account for, and the sober tone of his letter to Susan implied that something had given him a maturity beyond his years.
I don't believe there is an hour we can't account for,--Kitty and I between us.
Cause I have attempted to account foras I decended.
Cause of those disorders we are unable to account for.
Contain Some timber in their bottoms which is verry extincive,- on the North Side the Indians have latterly Set the Praries on fire, the Cause I can't account for.
Drewyer and Shannon and that they would not return untill the expiration of two days; the cause why Drewyer and Shannon had not returned with these men we are at a loss to account for.
None of the direct affections seem to merit our particular attention, except hope and fear, which we shall here endeavour to account for.
This leads us backward upon our footsteps to perceive our error in attributing a continued existence to our perceptions, and is the origin of many very curious opinions, which we shall here endeavour to account for.
Before we leave this subject, it may not be amiss to account for a pretty curious phaenomenon, viz, why we commonly keep at a distance such as we contemn, and allow not our inferiors to approach too near even in place and situation.
There is only one difficulty in this experiment, which it will be necessary to account for, before we proceed any farther.
By some capricious revulsion of feeling which it seemed impossible to account for, my whole mind was now absorbed on the one subject which had been hitherto so strangely absent from it--the subject of Mrs. Van Brandt!
He spoke English perfectly; and he received me with an appearance of interest which I was at a loss to account for at first.
What excuses I made to account for my strange conduct I cannot now remember.
His wife and he played into each other's hands in their jeux d'esprit; and kept Olive's inquiring Boston mind at work in the vain endeavor to account for and to place them socially.
We can't do women a greater injustice than not to account for a vast deal of human nature in them.
This might be alleged in any case, and any delay of travel might be brought forward to account for non-appearance as plausibly as this trumped-up accident in which nobody was hurt.
For the study of Moral Teratology will teach you that you do not get such a malformed character as that without a long chain of causes to account for it; and if you only knew those causes, you would know perfectly well what to expect.
It is a surprise,--there is nothing to account for it.
I've heard it said that people with the jaundice see everything yellow; perhaps I saw things looking a little queerly, with that black and blue spot I could n't account for threatening to make a colored man and brother of me.
What dread, terror, or frightful apprehension can there be put into a revelation of sin, where there is no sense of a day of judgment, and of our giving there unto God an account for it.
Look to it, thou wilt have strength little enough to appear before God, to give an account of the loss of thy own soul; thou needest not have to give an account for others; why, thou didst stop them from entering in.
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