But the mystery latent in our ideas of space and time is, that "something in the mind" irresistibly hinders us from allowing the possibility of any limit to either.
No man could contemplate them without feeling that there was in them a latent power vastly superior to any which they judged it necessary to put forth.
They met Celia's; and there was something latentin their brown depths which prompted him, after a brief dalliance of interchanging glances, to look again at the swings.
People had prized him for his innocent candor and guileless mind, for his good heart, his pious zeal, his modesty about gifts notably above the average, but it had occurred to none to suspect in him a latent funny side.
Celia looked down into her visitor's face at first inquiringly, then with a latent grin about her lips.
In leaving this portion of our subject we may compare the view latent in the very idea of infant baptism with that of the leader of a well-known sect upon the beginnings of the spiritual life in children.
Its subtle, latent links of connection do not present many grappling hooks for the memory to fasten itself to.
This capacity of revival, of expansion, of quickened life, of developed truth, is in the unction common to the faithful, in the latent possibilities of the new birth.
Some such thought is the latentroot of connection.
This is the latent link of connection in this passage.
Why then, in this case too, while the outward business is diligently prosecuted, may there not be on your spirit a latent and constant impression of that awful inspection?
Amidst all the mental exertions of the public speaker--underneath the outward workings of his mind, so to speak, there is the latent thought of the presence of auditory.
And, in order to see this, it is to be remembered, that many of the thoughts and motives that most powerfully impel and govern us in the common actions of life, are latent thoughts and motives.
As a last illustration of the possibility of blending religion with the business of common life, let me call your attention to what may be described as the mind's power of acting on latent principles.
Development reveals the latent power, the latent meaning of the themes; were it merely artificial, no matter how skilful, it would be letter, not spirit.
In the latter there is a latent power which is wanting in the former.
The movement towards the dominant note in this Branle may be regarded as a latent modulation.
Lady Pelham reddened, as her latent thoughts were thus seized and exposed naked to her view; but fear again proved victorious, and she redoubled her blandishments.
Perhaps, though she did not confess it to herself, she was assisted in this act of self-command by a latent hope, that as she was now to be introduced to a society on his own level, Hargrave might not find the mystery quite inscrutable.
She had therefore a latent wish to return to a place where she would have a legitimate claim to his kindness, and where at least there would be no one to remind her that she ought to shrink from it.
In her there lay a hitherto undiscovered latent depravity, lacking only opportunity, and her marriage was the cause.
He offers an even stouter refusal to Burgoyne's suggestion that he should go to bed; and as he utters it a flash of cunning suspicion comes into his eyes, shocking his friend with a gleam as of possible and scarcely latent madness.
No other portion of the battle line in either theatre has such great latent strength ready to be thrown in when the critical moment comes.
You will find, too, that behind the apparent slackness of every arrangement and every individual are powers of adaptability to facts, elasticity, practical genius, a latent spirit of competition and a determination that are staggering.
She ceased at once to speak and ceased to be, 100 And all the nymph was lost within the tree; Yet latent life through her new branches reign'd, And long the plant a human heat retain'd.
When I speak of being governed by imagination, of course I am indulging in a figure of speech, in an ellipsis; in reality we are governed by that perpetual latent process within us by which imagination itself is created.
Idealism, on principle, leaves no room for anything latent; but in a living being, especially in a nice Englishman, what is latent is the chief thing.
The whole force of their dramatic art will lie in leading them to dream of themselves in a different, perhaps more glorious, position, in which their latent passions might be more splendidly expressed.
Time and tide are strangely changed, Men and manners much deranged: None will now find Cupid latent By this foolish antique patent.
Yet every scroll whereon he wrote In latent fire his secret thought, Fell unregarded to the ground, Unseen by such as stood around.
Various causes latentin the social systems of the ancients prevented such developments of surplus people.
Chemistry is in this view mysterious and spinosistically sublime--that it is the science of the latent in all things, of all things as lurking in all.
Black and others previously discovered what amount of heat was renderedlatent by the conversion of water into steam.
The power of mental self-guidance and self-education is largely dependent upon the two well known scientific principles of latent energy, and action and reaction.
Mr Stanforth was touched by the allusion, which was evidently intended to combat a possible latentobjection on his part.
But this speech ended in a flood of tears, as poor Nettie's latent maidenliness began to assert itself.
An impulse to take her into his own house and cultivate the latent talent so visible in every gesture and look, took possession of him, but his natural strong sense prevailed over this impulse.
This little box of paints and pencils was enough to bring forth a latent talent, and the enthusiasm that had exhausted itself in tears of delight on the hill-side, grew into a power of creation.
Latent within itself must be locked up all Energy, or capacity for Force or Motion, for all Force or Energy is Mental.
He tells you of the part he took in 1805, in the capture of two French frigates, and some of the latent fire returns as he speaks of it; for it was a fight that lasted three days and nights before victory was fairly ours.
Black described specific and latent heat and invented, and used, the calorimeter bearing his name.
We have watched with increasing interest the growing power of corporations, for years, hoping that the time would come when the people would awake to the necessity of asserting their latentpowers for the restoration of their rights.
Reference has already been made to Black's discovery of carbonic acid, and of the phenomena which he ascribed to latent heat.
It would encourage the best geometers to seek with renewed ardor the eternal truths which, in Pliny's phrase, are latent in the majesty of theory.
She could at least try activating his latent telepathic ability.
