No one knew better than he how ready the world is to stigmatize as mere sham any uprightness of character as soon as appearances are against it.
To save mere appearances he sacrificed his honour, he lied with a brazen brow; but then he had not been in fault with regard to what had occurred; his life had fairly been in peril.
In neither of these appearances is there any account of Jesus ascending up into heaven, or of His instructing the disciples to preach His Gospel to all nations.
Its sounds are sounds of terror; its appearances all foster a sentiment of mystery.
But, in life, there is always a flavour of wormwood in the cup of joy; appearancesare proverbially deceitful; and Dr.
Here upon the very point of starting for the voyage, Captain Peleg and Captain Bildad were going it with a high hand on the quarter-deck, just as if they were to be joint-commanders at sea, as well as to all appearances in port.
Opportunities frequently occur when these appearances may be seen.
There are other appearances at nightfall which deserve consideration.
He speaks of airs, and breezes, and squalls, and gales, and hurricanes; or of such appearances of the sky as prognosticate them.
But it must not be supposed that they commence with precisely the same appearances in every case in winter; much less in summer.
There is no lack of material for solid paths in the neighbourhood; but judging from appearances the ravine gets none of it.
Such are some of the appearancesleft by the waves in their never-ending aggressions.
The lady, fatigued with doing the honours of her house to two separate companies on the same evenings, and disgusted with these appearances of distrust and resiliency, invented some decent pretext for receiving no more.
Appearances are against me," he said, but this is the work of the devil and his angels.
Mr. Pope knew this, and had the justice to own to me that I fairly followed appearances when I thought well of them, and ill of him.
The conviction that death is distant usually yields when appearances are against the supposition.
In the rear of these beliefs are numerous cases in which appearances are accepted for a symbolical language, not with an absolute faith, but with a fond acquiescence because they are the just reflection of our thoughts.
Two gentlemen sauntered into one of the cars, to all appearances the most unconcerned of individuals.
As a consequence, there has been developed an idea that there is some evidence of the distinct possibility of suchappearances when the soul leaves the body.
Occasionally such startling appearances occur in connection with people who are so slightly related, or whose existence bears such slight importance to each other, that it is hard to understand why the appearance may have come.
A very interesting commentary on some of these appearancesis to be found in Mark Twain's story of a disappearance, which could probably be duplicated many times if experiences in this line were collected and collated.
When they happen during the day it is sometimes at the moment of passing from very bright light to a darker hall that the occurrence takes place and evidently there is some physical occasion for the appearances in the eye itself.
Such wraith-like appearances are supposed to occur especially in connection with the deaths of persons at a distance.
This same thing holds for the day-dreams or sudden visual appearances that come when the attention has been wrapped in something else.
Especially does one find stories of wraith-like appearances of one to the other of such persons at the moment of death.
Brokers, speculators, actors, sometimes public speakers, on whom appearances in public in spite of apparent placidity are often a severe strain, may have to be guided into quieter paths of life.
Your best and most profitable public appearances will be before the common or working classes as a leader and teacher.
Some of the appearances presented by separate ova are not unlike the figures of Ludwig, but a growth such as he describes has, according to my observations, no existence.
In the region where the pancreas is being formed the appearances presented in a series of transverse sections are somewhat complicated (Pl.
If the series of ovaries which I have represented be examined, it will not, I think, be denied that the general appearances are very much in favour of my view.
Our interpretation of the appearances we have described in connection with the growth of the Muellerian duct can be stated in a very few words.
I have attempted to represent, as truly as I could, theappearances presented by the ovum.
The appearances of these folds in section have given rise, as has already been pointed out by Foulis, to the erroneous view that the germinal epithelium (pseudo-epithelium) became involuted in the form of tubular open pits.
In the next stage the appearances from the surface are rather more obscure, and in some of my best specimens a coagulum, derived from the fluid surrounding the ovum, covers the most important part of the blastoderm.
Professor Semper has described similar appearances in the male primitive ova of a later period.
The most careful examination that I have been able to make brings to light nothing tending to shew that the general appearances are delusive.
But since this is our feeling, and there is plenty of time, why should we not calmly and patiently review our own thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in us really are?
The necessity for maintaining appearances was small indeed, but such as it was, neither mother nor daughter could avoid it.
In the meanwhile, between April and August, Rex and Hilda met more often than before, and to all appearances they met on the best of terms, to the no small satisfaction of Greif himself.
That is not quite true," said Johnson; "I saved appearances tolerably well, but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
He has given a specimen of his nice observation of the mere external appearances of life, in the following passage in No.
A seed may to all appearances be all right and yet not have within it vitality enough, or power, to produce a hardy plant.
Those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious.
The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing.
That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
In vain did Chapman demur to the great expense and the folly of keeping up appearances under such circumstances.
Unfortunately the fools were not so plenty as formerly, the demand for Kidd Discovery stock had greatly diminished, and the expense of keeping up appearances in the city had far exceeded Chapman's calculations.
It is true, we saw but little of the island, though to all appearances there was not much to see.
A glen to which I often go is, like most others in the sequestered woods, really populous, while being to all appearances quite deserted.
If the bobolink's medley is not evidence of a light heart, then are appearances deceptive indeed.
But back of the window-dressing, the rhetoric of costume and medal and prepared ovation and patriotic tears, there is a reality as different from these appearances as roots are different from flowers.
But what leads me first to speak ofappearances is the huge responsibility that had gone to hygienists.
Thus it could hardly happen, that the majority of the Senate would feel any other complacency towards the object of an appointment than such as the appearances of merit might inspire, and the proofs of the want of it destroy.
There are appearances to authorize a supposition that the adventurous spirit, which distinguishes the commercial character of America, has already excited uneasy sensations in several of the maritime powers of Europe.
Provocations to produce the desired appearances might even be given to some foreign power, and appeased again by timely concessions.
Observations on the Geological Appearances and General Features of Portions of the Malayan Peninsula.
Discrimination, as resulting from the appearances of things, is without controversy an illusion.
