So oft the finer movements of the soul, That shun the sphere of Pleasure's gay controul, In the still shades of calm Seclusion rise, And breathe their sweet, seraphic harmonies!
Any answer not founded on well-ascertained facts and indisputable knowledge should be set aside as vexatious and frivolous.
Again, we say, that it is not our wish to anticipate; butfacts may be recorded.
Of other facts connected with them, it may be recorded that at Tulloher in Kilkenny, where the tower is only 8 feet from the church, yet that edifice is of limestone, whilst the tower itself is of siliceous breccia.
Mr. Townsend in his Survey of Cork, which deserves the investigation of the geological tourist, and may serve to lead him to valuable facts in the course of his research.
Hundreds of new facts are recorded respecting these and other absorbing topics, while the citations from the unpublished letters of Burton and Lady Burton will, we are sure, receive a welcome.
In our accounts of Burton's travels will be found a number of interesting facts and some anecdotes not given in Burton's works.
As regards Lady Burton, no doubt, of some of the facts presently to be given, she was unaware.
That such were the facts and that the appearance of her husband was not mere hallucination, Lady Burton stiffly maintained until her dying day.
Lady Burton replied with asperity--giving the factsmuch as we have given them in Chapter ix.
In each case she said, "I particularly wish you to make these factsas public as possible when I am gone.
He accepts every malicious and rancorous tale told against the Jews, and records as historical facts even such problematical stories as the murder of Hugh of Lincoln.
Facts are facts, whether men are acquainted with them or not.
Upon this point a volume might be written, but a few plain facts must suffice.
Once they had regarded them as based on wild improbabilities, but now they admitted that the facts were as represented, and that critics had foreseen catastrophe.
Mr. Adkins shook them both cordially by the hand, and took his departure, leaving them to digest all the startlingfacts he had placed in their possession.
A disgusted grunt from Perk told that he did not feel very happy over certain facts in the case.
As far as they had gone, things looked hopeful to Jack, as he marshalled the facts that had lately been placed in their possession.
So when you're answering my questions don't try to lie to me, for like as not I'll be already acquainted with the facts and know you're trying to beat around the bush.
Such being the condition offacts and minds, pilgrimages to Jerusalem became, from the ninth to the eleventh century, more and more numerous and considerable.
Several facts indicate that he did not underestimate the worth and range of his title of king.
What then became, under their reign and in the course of those hundred and seventy-three years, of the two great facts which swayed the mind and occupied the life of Charlemagne?
Such men and such facts have a right to be closely studied and set in a clear light by history.
Perhaps I shall change again when I get all my facts under one point of view, and a pretty hard job this will be.
With respect to editors, Mr. Lyell would be the best if he would undertake it; I believe he would find the work pleasant, and he would learn some facts new to him.
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
I leave to the editor's judgment whether to interpolate these facts in the text, or as notes, or under appendices.
By this means I was enabled to select the more striking facts and conclusions.
I am sorry about Murray objecting to the term Abstract, as I look at it as the only possible apology for not giving references and factsin full, but I will defer to him and you.
I wish, however, you had enlarged a little more on the pairing of similar varieties; a rather more numerous body of facts seems here wanted.
These are the facts which make one understand the working or economy of nature.
Rein published an account of the Bermudas, in which he opposed the interpretation of the structure of the islands given by Nelson and other authors, and maintained that the facts observed in them are opposed to the views of Darwin.
His speech on that occasion has become an arsenal of facts pertaining to the ethics and the practicability of the statute.
It is a valid certificate if it is in accordance with the facts appearing upon the record.
George, in the conduct of a cause, to thoroughly familiarize himself with all the facts and circumstances connected therewith.
It is one thing to be able to state abstract legal principles, and quite another correctly to apply those principles to the facts in any given case.
He reads the mind of a witness almost intuitively, and understands how to bring out the essential facts even from the most reluctant, and to do so in the manner best calculated to make the desired impression upon the minds of the jury.
These facts justify the claim of a wide circle of friends and acquaintances, who look upon him as one of the strongest men of the state, and one for whom high honors are in reserve.
I have, too, in every case where it seems necessary quoted my authority so that there may be no doubt as to the source from which my facts are drawn.
What are the facts in the case at bar as alleged in the petition, and which it is conceded must be assumed to be true?
The Socialist is one who sees these social and historic facts and whose action is guided by such sight; the non-Socialist solidarist is one who, though animated by the socializing impulses, has not yet perceived these two most weighty facts.
I do not wish to be understood as pretending that the facts marshalled in the foregoing pages constitute conclusive proofs that the Group either made money by the panic, or withheld cash and credit for the purpose of making money.
I submit that the facts in this case are different in kind and transcend in consequences those in the cases of Ker v.
But let us turn from conflicting opinions and look the facts in the face.
This school altogether fails to take account of two facts of the utmost importance: Development under purely natural conditions--prior to the advent of man--by no means proceeded alone along competitive lines.
As regards the facts and the explanation of these facts, there seems to be no essential disagreement between orthodox economists and Socialists.
A fact must be seen from every side and its relations to other facts must be traced out.
The first of these facts is that by the side of the competitive system just described, there is in Nature also a cooperative system almost as highly developed as the competitive system and destined eventually almost to take its place.
I have been careful to take my facts and figures not from Socialist publications, but from government publications or economists of admitted authority.
In the first place, the state Socialist who wants all land to be owned by the state ignores some very fundamental facts in human nature: He ignores the fact that humanity has for generations cultivated the instinct of ownership in land.
Now, he speaks in this letter of two facts that I think are very striking.
The Hudson Bay Route; A Compilation of Factswith Conclusions.
In addition to the information about the timber of this district given in this report there are many facts as to the topography of the country and its natural resources.
Here she somehow learned the facts of her own story.
He knew nothing of the facts which the landlady disclosed, but, impressed by her story, sent for and examined his neglected packet of papers.
To study facts alone is quite impossible, because the number of facts which may be objects of our study, are, in the strict sense of the word, countless.
The disciples of the modern science are very fond of saying with a solemn assurance, "We study facts alone," imagining that these words have some meaning.
I began even then to write, and fancied I had many very important facts to communicate.
With mock solemnity the ruling science asserts that the solution of all the questions of life is only possible through studying the facts of nature, and especially those of organisms.
Hiding their lie clothed in a scientific theory, scientists assure men that by studying external phenomena they study undeniable facts which will reveal to them the law of man's life.
Before beginning to study facts, one must have some theory according to which the facts are studied; that is, determining which shall be selected from the countless number of facts.
Modern science selects its facts on the ground of a determinate theory, which sometimes it knows, sometimes does not wish to know, sometimes really does not know; but which exists.
All this seems to be very innocent, but we need only draw deductions from these observations of facts in order to see at once to what they are tending.
Discarding punctilio and maxims adapted to more manageable times, and looking only to the unprecedentedly stern facts of our case, can you do better in any possible event?
Might it not be well for me," queried the officer, "to set this matter right in a letter to some paper, stating the facts as they actually transpired?
We must not belittle nor overlook the facts of our condition--that we are new and comparatively weak, while our enemies are entrenched and relatively strong.
The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts of the case.
It will throw additional light on the latter, to go back, and run the mind over the string of historical facts already stated.
I must study the plain, physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right.
When you bring a common law-suit, if you have the facts for doing so, write the declaration at once.
I here assure you that the candid statement of facts on your part, however low it may sink me, shall never break the tie of personal friendship between us.
That he is one of the most exalted of Scotland's aristocracy, a great territorial magnate, and entitled to take a high place in the Council of the nation, are facts external and independent of his own intrinsic merits.
Bible or any 'cardinal doctrine' of faith, but professing a profound respect for these writers, and bringing his facts and logic against their facts and logic.
Both these facts must be taken into the account, if we would read his history fairly.
The facts which lie on the surface of this question, which are involved in the bare statement of it, are sufficient of themselves to justify and command this inquiry.
The facts which it contains are able to assert themselves,--will be, at least, hereafter.
These are facts which lie on the surface of this history, which obtrude themselves on our notice, and demand inquiry.
Great things he promises, because thefacts of human life are determined by forces which admit of scientific definition, and are capable of being reduced to axioms.
Meanwhile the Alexandrian critics were studying the language of Homer and the Attic writers, and comparing it with the language of their own day, the result being a minute examination of the facts and rules of grammar.
For some time, probably for upwards of thirty years, both the facts of the life of Jesus and His words were only related orally.
The facts as related by James and other witnesses were, in outline, as follows.
At the same time these facts can be more or less satisfactorily accounted for by various circumstances.
From its pages are culled the following facts relating to the changes in the rates of freight up to the year 1897.
No tribe is confined to one hemisphere and no large genus to any one floral region; facts which indicate that the separation of the tribes goes back to very ancient times.
But a correct and complete statement of the facts is by no means so easy a matter as might appear at first sight.
The facts being reported to the Convention, little sympathy was shown to Gorsas, and a resolution (which was evaded) was passed forbidding representatives to occupy themselves with journalism.
The facts will be distorted by a false theory in regard to them, while they will certainly not be presented in a complete form if the grammarian is ignorant of the true theory they presuppose.
With suchfacts before me, I could no longer hesitate.
It is but right to confess the dominion of facts and circumstances upon these ecclesiastical organizations; but there is a dominion which rises higher still--that of the Word of God.
But on other points, in particular on the withdrawal of the cup and the celibacy of priests, its arguments were lamentably weak, and contrary to the well known facts of history.
Indeed it was difficult to realize, that she was not a boy, even after becoming acquainted with the factsin the case.
But they must now be made acquainted with all the facts in the case.
It is requested that all parties to whom a copy of this may be sent will post it in a public place, and that the friends of Freedom and Humanity will have the facts herein contained openly read in their respective churches.
The concert of purpose may be deduced from the concerted action itself, or it may be inferred from facts occurring at the time, or afterwards, as well as before.
The facts and incidents related are themselves so full of interest and dramatic intenseness as to need no coloring.
These facts I must give without reference to date, as I will not tax my memory with perhaps a vain attempt to narrate them in order.
With this interesting case our narratives end, except such facts of a like kind as may be connected with some of the sketches of stockholders.
When such facts are occurring in the midst of us, we cannot be guiltless concerning the lambs of Christ.
The facts were that he was painfully involved in Manuela's fate, and uncomfortably near being in love again with the lovely unfortunate.
The facts were extraordinary, and her crime, done as it was in defence of myself, was heroic--or I thought so.
He gave the facts as the reader knows then, and made it clear that Manuela was in terror of Estéban from the moment he appeared, and even before he appeared.
But the excellence of Mr. Tazewell consisted not so much in knowing the acts and thoughts of other men, as in the philosophy which he drew from the great facts in all history.
He seemed to have perfect command of his stores, not by the mere effort of recollection, but of memory and reflection combined, eliminating a truth from the facts which concealed it.
The Neo-Platonists did not face factsas Plato did.
The real facts of life lead you to God, as the red sky, and the south wind, teach you to foretell the weather (Matt.
If our study of Jesus in the preceding chapters has been on sound lines, we shall feel that the challenge to face facts is in his vein; it was what he urged upon men throughout.
The second line of approach is rather more difficult, but with care we can use Christological theories to recover the facts which those who framed the theories intended to explain.
Where a generation ago a case seemed to be closed, to-day in the light of new facts it is reopened.
He possesses the rare power of reverently handling familiar truths or facts in such manner as to make them seem to be almost new.
If a man be candid with himself, if he face the common facts of life with seriousness and in the doing of duty, perplexities vanish.
Again and again we find the most fruitful avenues opened to us by questions that another age might have laughed out of a hearing; to-day they suggest investigation of facts insufficiently known, and of the difficult connexions between them.
How little men's praise and their blame matter, when your eyes are fixed on God--when you have Him and His facts to be your inspiration!
Indifference to God's facts leads to one end only.
Some will use it to deceive him; others, impressed by it, are silent in his presence; one way and another, the facts are kept from him.
