I can only put it sufficiently curtly in a careless simile.
The ugly exactitudes of business, the bells and clocks the fixed hours and rigid departments, were all meant for the male: who, as a rule, can onlydo one thing and can only with the greatest difficulty be induced to do that.
Why then should I trouble you with a book which, even if it achieves its object (which is monstrously unlikely) can only be a thundering gallop of theory?
He can only avoid it by destroying the family, driving both sexes into sexless hives and hordes, and bringing up all children as the children of the state--like Oliver Twist.
It is the attempt of a European country to create a kind of sham Europe which it can dominate, instead of the real Europe, which it can only share.
I hope any one who may read what I write will understand that if these pages contain a great deal about me, I can only suppose it must be because I have really something to do with them and can't be kept out.
But now he can only whisper, and what he whispers sounds like what it is--mere jumble and jargon.
But it can only come in one way now--in one of two ways, I should rather say.
True painting, he himself observed, can only be learnt in one school, and that is kept by Nature.
Excellence in art, as in everything else, can only be achieved by dint of painstaking labour.
Wrestling is to be pursued as a military exercise, but the meaning of this, and the nature of the art, can only be explained when action is combined with words.
He who is unable to acquire this knowledge, as well as the ordinary virtues of a citizen, can only be a servant, and not a ruler in the state.
As I understand, sir, she is suffering under some domestic anxiety which can only be mentioned to yourself.
I can only say, for both these young friends of mine, that you need feel no scruple about admitting them to your intimacy, if they happen to please you--and your niece.
My eyes are inflamed, and my throat is so bad that I can only speak in a whisper.
I can only offer to submit my system to public inquiry, without exacting any preliminary fee from ladies and gentlemen who may honor me with a visit.
I can only venture to say that your leaving us, as things are now, puts an obstacle in the way of my recovering your Diamond.
The Indian plot, Mr. Bruff, can onlybe a mystery to you, because you have never seriously examined it.
We can only hope to approximate to the conditions; and if we don't succeed in getting you nearly enough back to what you were, this venture of ours will fail.
As we find ourself in the predicament of not being able to describe (to our own satisfaction) nice little couples in the abstract, we purpose telling in this place a little story about a nice little couple of our acquaintance.
The neighbours were all too poor themselves to take any notice of ’em, but from what I could make out from the abuse of the woman up-stairs, it seemed the husband had been transported a few weeks before.
But its technical severity and its very conciseness, combined with the wealth it contains, render it irresumable; and I can only in a few words indicate its conclusions.
Therefore it appears most in place in the sketch I desire to trace of an exceedingly complex work, where I can only hope, evidently, to indicate the main lines and general direction.
You are but condemning yourself to symbolism, for one "thing" can only be in another symbolically.
This resolution now, which overcomes the state of doubting, can only be called forth by the intellect, and, in fact, by a peculiar tendency of the same.
With materials of this kind we can only say to ourselves that it is a sheer impossibility to construct for the Art of War a theory which, like a scaffolding, shall ensure to the chief actor an external support on all sides.
But I am no artist; I can only say he is a Confederate gray.
I can only repeat my love and prayers that every blessing may attend you and yours.
We can only get up provisions from day to day--which paralyses our operations.
The powers, therefore, that dwell in individuals, acting as a stage- coach company, can only be secured for right uses by applying to them a religion.
The powers, therefore, that dwell in individuals acting as a government as well as those that dwell in individuals acting for themselves, can only he secured for right uses by applying to them a religion.
I can only answer, that if this be a fault on my part, it is a deliberate one.
And that can only be done by Thrift; and that, again, can only be attained by knowledge.
I can only describe my sensations under the calamities that had now fallen on me in one way: I felt like a man whose mind had been stunned.
If this was dreaming, I can only say it was the most vivid dream I ever had in my life.
As things are, I can only leave my companion to go back to the vessel, and relieve the minds of our friends of any needless alarm about me.
I cannot venture on asking the question--I can only make my excuses in due form.
In return, I can only trust to you not to misjudge my motives, if I abstain from explaining myself any further.
Not being myself conversant with those subjects, I can only form an opinion of the value from extraneous circumstances.
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