That tomb will teach us, in the confusion and instability of the present, to preserve before all things integrity of character, which makes all the power and all the value of the man here below.
Perhaps, even at times, some faint glimmering might flit across his mind of the instability of the hills, and the rack to him thus became a symbol of the world's unsubstantial pageant.
A curious thing in pronounced examples of this mental instability in women is that the symptoms are often so very similar in women of quite different birth, surroundings and nationality.
The highest form of emotional instability exists in confirmed epilepsy, where its manifestations have often been studied; it is found in a high but somewhat less extraordinary degree in the hysterical and allied affections.
An energy shortage and instability in neighboring states may slow growth in 2005, while the lack of adequate transportation linkages to other countries continues to handicap export growth.
The resulting widespread violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel's military response, and instability within the Palestinian Authority continued to undermine progress toward a permanent agreement.
And Marjorie with that instability of her sex which has been a theme for masculine humour in all ages, suddenly and with an extraordinary violence didn't want to make up her mind about Mr. Magnet.
Moreover their private lives were often scandalous, they married for love instead of interest, often quite disadvantageously, and their relationships had all the instabilitythat is natural upon such a foundation.
The contrast between the political world, with its instability and lack of organisation, and the economic world, which manifests intense vitality and national progress.
The peculiar situation of this great agricultural country, which constitutes at once the strength and the instability of the Republic, shows us in what spirit and by what method it should be studied.
Terry--who was all for conversion on a sliding scale; that is, for the worst method conceivable, as by maintaining the condition of instability he would have adjourned the question instead of solving it.
Certain of the disadvantages of instability of rates seem to have been overlooked.
The notorious instability of water rates and the difficulties incident to the enforcement of the long and short haul clause, render such water-borne traffic of great importance in the proper regulation of carriers on land.
Nor is such instability found in respect of some important lines of trade.
The work girls choose and their instability in the work they enter upon are direct results of these unstable conditions.
Finally, want, misery and his own instability of character drove him from the country.
The instability is increased of course by the absence of benevolent features in the syndicats.
There appeared to him a great deal of danger from the instability of their proceedings, an instability often charged upon a Government like ours.
In noticing the objection from the instability of the State Legislatures, he said it was not owing to their numbers, but to the mode in which they are elected.
Indeed, there is abundant evidence to show that in conjunction with the imaginary instability of the electorate, the debasement of elections is weakening the faith of many in representative institutions.
Many, indeed, imagining that this dangerous instability is the reflection of an equally unstable electorate, begin to question whether a popular franchise is in any circumstances a satisfactory basis for government.
With theinstability of genius, Beth[24] did everything suddenly.
The persecutions under Aurelian and Diocletian almost succeeded in accomplishing the former; the Christian churches were saved by the instability of the existing authorities, by military anarchy and by the incursions of the barbarians.
Prevent the expansion of the instability and conflict beyond Iraq's borders.
While such devolution is a possible consequence of continued instability in Iraq, we do not believe the United States should support this course as a policy goal or impose this outcome on the Iraqi state.
If the instability in Iraq spreads to the other Gulf States, a drop in oil production and exports could lead to a sharp increase in the price of oil and thus could harm the global economy.
Reform has been held back by the ex-communist MPRP opposition and by the political instability brought about through four successive governments under the DUC.
In 1998, El Nino's impact on agriculture, the financial crisis in Asia, and instability in Brazilian markets undercut growth.
Erratic growth rates in the 1990s reflect the economy's vulnerability to swings in tourist arrivals, caused by political instability on the island and fluctuations in economic conditions in Western Europe.
This symptom may be in itself trifling enough, yet it may afford the earliest indication of mental instability the nature and extent of which subsequent research will determine.
Persons afflicted with tic often develop a sort of visceral instability which betrays itself in indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation, diarrhOEa, and in every variety of dietetic and alimentary caprice.
We need not do more than remind the reader of the close affinities we have already seen to exist between tics and professional cramps, and of the mental instability which both classes of patient present.
It should not be forgotten, moreover, that the mental instability of the fathers is visited upon the children in the guise of a certain aptitude for psychical anomalies.
Speaking generally, a certain degree of mentalinstability is a distinguishing feature of the patient with tic.
He shows a peculiar turn of mind and a certain eccentricity of behaviour, indicative of a greater or less degree of instability (Brissaud).
In the subjects of tic and in their families, mental instability and intellectual superiority have repeatedly been conjoined.
The psychical peculiarities of the patient with variable chorea may be summed up in instability of thought and action, combined with mental infantilism.
In short, his ready acceptance of his daughter's instability argues a lack of mental balance on his own part.
Mental instability is not uncommonly associated with a general restlessness and fidgetiness during intervals of respite from the actual tics.
Mental instability is the inevitable consequence of this state of affairs.
The mental idleness and the instability of mind that we have already considered render such people less inclined to consider with any degree of care those things which do not touch them directly.
The doctrine of the instability of pure constitutions forms an important era in the philosophy of history.
And where there is nervous instability there will always be a tendency to hysteria.
But nervous instabilityis one thing, complexity another.
Nervous instability is very marked in the case of Hazlitt and De Quincey; and there was a strain of morbidity in Borrow, Jefferies, and Stevenson.
It does not follow that every hysterical person has the artistic temperament; for nervous instability may be the outcome of nervous disease, epilepsy, insanity, or even simple neuroticism in the parents.
