Nevertheless, the doings of so exquisite a creature as Clara de Mowbray, are worthy of the contemplation of our readers, for both in station and disposition she was considerably elevated above the ordinary fragments of the world.
He was the exact surveyor of the inanimate world as he travelled through it, and his descriptions in after-life were grafted from the contemplation of things as they really existed.
I hear again of formidable preparations being in contemplation to avenge the destruction of his ships.
That youth may be regarded as fortunate indeed who in early life can restrain his wandering thoughts and tie down his mind at will to the contemplation of whatever he wishes to comprehend and to make his own.
But the character in our contemplation was of no ordinary proportions.
The crowd have been too deeply absorbed in the contemplation of my face to notice this side-show; but they quickly see the point, and follow my lead with a general round of merriment.
The boat-wife stands at the stern and regulates the length of the tow-line; the baby puts in the first few hours in wondering contemplation of myself.
A few miles above Chin-yuen the river enters a rocky gorge, and the marvellous beauty of the scenery rivets me to the spot in wondering contemplation for an hour.
Happy in the contemplation of a whole chicken for supper, I sit around and chat and drink tea with my disinterested friend for the space of an hour.
To-night this power seemed regained, for she passed from thecontemplation of concrete images into a vague and pleasant state, an absolute idleness of the intellect akin to that which people call daydreaming.
Seth vanished, grinning, and he returned to his contemplation of the garden.
Margaret said never a word, but covered her head with her veil and glided noiselessly away, leaving Claudius with his white face and staring eyes to the contemplation of what he had done.
The whole tenor of his philosophy thus leads up to virtue and to the intellectual contemplation of the eternal, as source of the same; so that the soul is brought to happiness of life therein.
In this pure thought or contemplation the νοῦς is actual; and this is divine activity itself.
For when Plato begins to talk on this subject, he says of the difficulty of distinguishing and recognizing the individual, that in the contemplation of nature there are “two causes to be distinguished, the one necessary and the other divine.
Contemplation in accordance with necessity is the external contemplationof objects, their connection, relation, &c.
He who contemplates must retire into his secret heart as into a temple, and remain there at rest, being elevated above all things, and in such contemplation as admits of no change.
It has been my anxious contemplation for many a year, how to promote the interests and comfort of the three persons who seem especially placed under my guidance and direction, Rose, yourself, and Chazeul.
Nevertheless he could have gone on for hours, and yet not have exhausted all the bitter subjects of contemplation presented to him.
She would fain have shut out every sight and sound, in order that she might bend the whole energies of her mind to contemplation of that one question--were the dreadful tidings she had heard, true or false?
In fact, Djalma, until now occupied with the contemplation of the scene which reminded him of his country, had remained insensible to the enticements of Rose-Pompon, and had not yet perceived Adrienne.
Adrienne, still completely absorbed in the contemplation of the Indian forest, and in her own sweet thoughts, had not observed the newcomers.
His apparition caused surprise and curiosity in the theatre; the majority of the spectators not having, like Adrienne, a thousand reasons for being absorbed in the contemplation of a picturesque set scene.
Absorbed in the contemplation of the scenery and the thoughts it awakened in her heart, she paid no attention to what was passing in the house.
After action and contemplation I left her as amorous as she had been eighteen years before, but my passion found too many new objects to remain constant long.
I stripped her naked, and after due contemplation I made her feel how much I loved her.
Very--for a person who professes himself so given to the contemplation of things above the world.
Then, do you know that I think it infinitely more probable Mr. Cartwright may have it in contemplation to make you his wife.
Indeed, the contemplation of the cheque she had drawn pleased her nearly as much as what the cheque had accomplished.
Then, "a lecturer should appear easy and collected, undaunted and unconcerned, his thoughts about him, and his mind clear and free for the contemplation and description of his subject.
Humour and action are not so prominent as contemplation of a pageant reflected in a fairy mirror.
I once met a stranger who, having become acquainted with him, spoke of him with a touching fondness and pride, his fancy reposing, as it seemed, in a fond contemplation of so much genius and charm.
The fun is of the cruel primitive sort, arising merely from the contemplation of somebody's painful discomfiture.
Hill men" is a term applied to those who desire to become worthy of joining the ranks of the Immortals, and for this reason lead a life of contemplation among the hills.
He finally sat in contemplation until the "vital essence" issued from his body and descended to the World of Shades.
Human beings may attain "Hsien-ship," or Immortality, by living a life of contemplation in the hills.
Her days were lost in contemplation of the wonder which had happened.
To the eye ofcontemplation it is one of the most memorable of landscapes; a stand-point for historical reverie, which attunes the mind for subsequent and less discursive retrospection.
One step advanced beyond this, Jerry's uttermost, the folk of Somo, from the contemplation of death, had achieved concepts of the spirits of the dead still living in immaterial and supersensuous realms.
Actually was he hungry when he had megapode eggs, and the well-nigh dried founts of saliva and of internal digestive juices were stimulated to flow again at contemplation of a megapode egg prepared for the eating.
An original poet, he seems to speak from a sweeping contemplation of the universe.
Here, at all events, the imagination cannot gain that imperfect repose which it finds in the contemplation of an eternal series.
The merecontemplation of abstract character--its delineation by the graphic representation of the human form, had ceased to be the principal object of genius.
Seated by each other, and looking on the silver Arno, Godolphin and Constance, hand clasped in hand, surrendered themselves to the contemplation of their future happiness.
The contemplation of the crucifix seems to afford her strength and vigor.
Happy to repose in the artistic emotions that shook her so deeply, she relaxed into the serene contemplation of the truth toward which her father conducted her.
Our suspicion at last strengthened into conviction, and we became confident that contemplation of the subject of the cause of variation alone could furnish us with a solution of the whole question.
One must have advanced far into the spiritual ways of devout contemplation to endure the horrible cacophony without suffering indescribable tortures of soul.
It is in contemplation to cover the chapel with a roof of glass, in order to make the voices of the speakers more easily audible, as the chapel is equal in size to an ordinary cathedral.
When, in the contemplation of supposed advantage, whether to himself or his friends, he had once matured his purpose, it was an attempt of no ordinary difficulty to divert him from the pursuit of it.
