No matter how hard I try to be good I can never make such a success of it as those who are naturally good.
Thinking thus earnestly about the soul, one comes naturally to speculate upon the question of the spirit's return to earth after its final departure from the body.
All of these institutions arose naturally out of the circumstances, the character, and wants of men, at the time, and have been of essential service in their day.
That which men naturally incline to undertake and ardently desire to accomplish, is usually that which they are best fitted to do, and which will give the most appropriate exercise to their peculiar faculties.
She knows well that the sympathies of the ruling classes abroad are naturally on her side, and she will maintain the struggle to the last extremity, so long as a gleam of hope shines in that quarter.
I only thought that he was not breathing quite so naturally as he should, and I sent Woodham to fetch you.
Claude's hands seemed to go naturally together, and she passed one over the other, while Sarah Woodham stood gazing intently at Gartram, and a curious shudder ran through her from time to time.
Women are naturally weak, and it is Gartram's wish.
Of course, I know very little about these matters, but I have naturally learned how the use of narcotics grows upon those who indulge in them; and papa seems to fly more and more to that chloral.
He had only to wait patiently till the time of mourning and sorrow had passed away, and then Claude would naturally turn to him; and for the first time he felt glad that he had made that coup.
His eyes were good, and he could see that female figures were in the garden, and, naturally enough, he concluded that they were Claude and Mary.
Mr Glyddyr, though apparently naturally of a good constitution, has completely shattered his health by terrible excesses in the use of stimulants.
The hollowness and thinness of his face would have caused them to look large, under his yet dark eyebrows and his confused white hair, though they had been really otherwise; but, they were naturally large, and looked unnaturally so.
This had been so very noticeable, so very powerfully and naturally shown, that starers who had had no pity for him were touched by her; and the whisper went about, "Who are they?
Taking note of the wasted air which clouded the naturallyhandsome features, and having the expression of prisoners' faces fresh in his mind, he was strongly reminded of that expression.
By good fortune, too, she was naturally so peculiar in appearance as not to show disfigurement like any other woman.
Pardon me; certainly it was I who said so, but you naturallythink so.
He had naturally repressed much, and some revulsion might have been expected in him when the occasion for repression was gone.
The Defarges, husband and wife, came lumbering under the starlight, in their public vehicle, to that gate of Paris whereunto their journey naturally tended.
I have done my best to prepare myself, and I naturally have a strong and eager interest to know what they are.
The nervousness and dread that were upon him inspired that vague uneasiness respecting the Bank, which a great change would naturally awaken, with such feelings roused.
There was a sort of white horror in her face, but very little of the despairing grief one would naturally look for in the dying man's wife.
The plot seems simple, so easily and naturally is it developed and consummated.
Mr. Thorndyke has lost none of the easy insouciance that sits upon him so naturally and becomingly.
Many a tie formed in youth dwindles away and breaks offnaturally in maturer years.
I paint it, because it accounts for the accusation sometimes made--especially by men--that women are naturally stingy.
Naturally Fonseca held up his hands and wondered where it would all end.
He wasnaturally and sincerely pious, and drew from his religion much strength and spiritual nourishment; but he was also capable of hypocrisy, and of using the self-same religion as a cloak for his greed and cruelty.
The crew grumbled very much at this proceeding, which they did not understand; in fact they argued from it that the Admiral was making straight for Spain, and this, in the crazy condition of the vessels, naturally alarmed them.
His humble origin and his lack of educationnaturally made him distrustful.
His eye is naturally first attracted to the chair which is constitutionally the seat of the second dignitary in the land--the Vice-President of the United States.
The question here naturally arises, from what source Congress derives the power to transfer to Federal tribunals certain classes of cases embraced in this section.
To them it is not odious, as very naturally it would not be, under the policy which foregoes the punishment of traitors, and gives so many of them the chief places of power in the South.
The work of punishment is so vast that it naturally palsies the will to enter upon it.
A question mightnaturally arise whether we ought again to trust those who have once betrayed us; whether we ought to give them the benefits of a compact they have once repudiated.
If there be any such word as this, we should naturallyexpect it to follow the signification of lithe; soft, limber: which will not suit with this passage.
A boy of strong intellectual bent, he had ripened slowly on the emotional side, and there had been nothing in the circumstances or chances of his life to quicken the process thus naturally very gradual.
She shared Sibylla's views and Sibylla's temperament; but naturally she did not possess the charm of youth, of beauty, and of circumstance which served so well to soften or to recommend them.
The journalistic temperament was not, Jeremy felt, naturally sympathetic; so he laid the question before Mrs. Raymore.
Yet Mrs. Mumple was not by nature a patient woman; naturally she craved a full return for what she gave, and an ardent answer to the warmth of her affection.
He threw it out as an idea which naturally presented itself to a man of the world, giving the impression that it had been in his mind all along, even while Mrs. Mumple was speaking.
They're not naturally moral--we've imposed it on them, and they always like to get an excuse for approving of the other thing.
Tom was not naturally a lawless man; desperation had made him break loose.
Most physiologists mention another particular in which woman differs materially from man; viz, in naturally employing, in respiration, chiefly the upper part of the lungs, while man breathes chiefly with the lower part of the lungs.
This little girl, naturally truthful and honest, had, through the influence of this blighting vice, been made crafty and deceptive.
He was naturally an intelligent and prepossessing lad, and his father gave him as good an education as he could be induced to acquire, affording him most excellent opportunities for study and improvement.
In the meantime, his constitution, naturally weak, was being gradually undermined.
Children naturally love music; and if they cannot hear it at home, they will go where they can hear it.
Many times has the teacher watched with a sad heart the withering of all his hopes for the intellectual progress of a naturally gifted scholar by this blighting influence.
One whose thoughts have been so long trained in the filthy ruts of vice that they run there automatically, and naturally gravitate downward--such a one must exercise especial care to secure the most simple, pure, and unstimulating diet.
Should he now permit them to enter, they would naturally conclude that the slave had been concealed in the house, though he had now made good his escape.
Mr Tidey wasnaturally very much alarmed at the tidings I gave him.
He was a good-looking youngish man, though his face, naturally fair, was bronzed by summer suns and winter blasts.
As we sat round the cheerful blaze of the fire, we naturally talked of the stranger, wondering who he could be.
Uncle Denis grew impatient, he was naturally anxious to return to his farm, and yet was unwilling to leave my father and mother while matters remained in this unpleasant state.
Though I might easily have crawled in, yet it would be at the risk of being bitten by the young bears, who would, should I do so, naturally mistake me for one of the dogs about to renew the fight.
Kathleen asked when the redskins would be driven away, but poor Lily was naturally far more frightened, believing that the savages would kill us all as they had lately killed her friends.
Avoiding Mr Bracher's location, we drove down to the ford, and as the water was much lower than when we before crossed it, we got over in safety, though my mother naturally felt very nervous as we were making the passage.
The idea having once been given, the composing of airs productive of fugal harmony would naturally grow up; as in some way it did grow up out of this alternate choir-singing.
Insectivorous mammals, like in size to those found in the Trias and the Stonesfield slate, might naturally be looked for as the pioneers of the higher vertebrata.
It mightnaturally be supposed that the large planets would revolve on their axes more slowly than the small ones: our terrestrial experiences incline us to expect this.
As above shown, laughter naturally results only when consciousness is unawares transferred from great things to small--only when there is what we call a descending incongruity.
A further corollary naturally following this last, and almost, indeed, forming part of it, is, that these several kinds of government decrease in stringency at the same rate.
Commencing thus, without a proper preliminary analysis, we arenaturally somewhat at a loss how to present, in a satisfactory manner, those fundamental processes of thought out of which science ultimately originates.
Being predicable of all things producing indistinguishable impressions, there naturally grew up ideas of equality in weights, sounds, colours, &c.
Their presence naturally attracts great hordes of wolves, which are of two kinds, the large, and the small.
Misery may harden a disposition naturally bad, but it never fails to soften the heart of a good man.
During their walk their attention was naturally drawn to the sky, which was now bright with stars.
Men of this class take very naturally to habits of dissipation, and would turn a deaf ear to any advocate of temperance who might come among them.
As they were not looking for fish in any inland town, they naturally inquired what it was before them.
You will naturally conclude,' said our friend, 'that as we have spiders here we ought to have flies, and we have them in sufficient abundance to prevent life from becoming monotonous.
He is assisted in his scheme by Balthasar Groats, a Dutch speculator in tulip bulbs, whom the soldiers have arrested, thinking him a spy, and who is naturally willing to do anything for the Colonel to get him out of his predicament.
The necessity of such a force naturally excited some surprise, and led to some animadversions on the measures of the existing cabinet.
He remarked:--"One extreme naturallyleads to another.
If they gained power, he said, they would naturally wish to better the condition of their religious system, to extend its influence over the country, and to draw it into closer connexion with government.
The inaugural address of President Polk being of such a belligerent nature, naturally created strong apprehensions in the public mind of England of an intended encroachment upon our rights in the matter of the Oregon territory.
On the other hand, it is to be remembered that the Irish are naturally or by habit a migratory people, fond of change, full of hope, and eager for experiment.
His majesty was still reluctant to acknowledge the independence of the colonists, and he, therefore, naturally looked to Lord Shelburne as the successor of Lord North.
This conclusion, however, was arrived at, and it naturally added to the exultation and confidence of the Catholics.
The depression in every branch of trade experienced this year naturally gave rise to a reduction of wages among the artisans.
His appearance under such circumstances naturally excited the distrust of the loyalists, who gave indications of their dissatisfaction.
Such rare phenomena in this island naturallyattracted the attention of the philosophical, and affected the multitude with awe.
The Protestants lost all confidence therefrom in the government; and they very naturally felt inclined to have recourse, for means of defence, to the same instruments which the Catholics used against them.
They must have amusement for their disengaged hours, and they naturally seek that for which they have the greatest liking.
With the betting infatuation there has naturally sprung up a swarm of knowing hungry pike ready to take advantage of it.
Doubtless it is a curse, the mere mention of which, let alone its investigation, the delicate-minded naturally shrinks from.
Mr. Theobald wasnaturally turned to Industry and Labour.
Great Genius’s, like his, naturally unambitious, are satisfy’d to conceal their Art in these Points.
The ostentatious Affectation of abstruse Learning, peculiar to that Time, the Love that Men naturallyhave to every Thing that looks like Mystery, fixed them down to this Habit of Obscurity.
It is not easy to discover from what cause the acrimony of a scholiast can naturally proceed.
And consequently there are Lines that are stiff and forc’d, and harsh and unmusical, tho’ Shakespear had naturally an admirable Ear for the Numbers.
The question naturally suggested itself how far his dramatic method was due to his ignorance of the classics.
Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned: he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Narration in dramatick poetry is naturally tedious, as it is unanimated and inactive, and obstructs the progress of the action; it should therefore always be rapid, and enlivened by frequent interruption.
Ben was naturally proud and insolent, and in the days of his reputation did so far take upon him the supremacy in wit, that he could not but look with an evil eye upon any one that seem’d to stand in competition with him.
Mr. Tyrwhitt, therefore, is right in supposing that a jovial blade like Sir Toby would be naturally averse to these grave dances, and the dullness of the tunes belonging to them.
At the first entertainment given there by the princess, who was naturally of a gallant disposition, she directed that the ladies should choose their lovers for the year by lots.
The audience would naturally smile at hearing him deliver the speech in an effeminate tone of voice.
The avalanche-like success of the Russian arms, the clearly displayed weakness of German numbers and the rapid retreat of their forces naturally added to the terror of the peasants who make up the largest part of East Prussia's population.
The moment he opened fire the Austrians, naturally not realizing that only one cannon was opposing them, and believing that a large Serbian force had surprised them, broke into a panic.
Naturally the huge success and rapid advance of the Serbians over on the Tzer ridges were of great importance to them.
Naturally the advance of the Austrians from Shabatz was endangering its right flank.
An army like the Austrian, composed of so many different nationalities and races, would naturally be more susceptible to such excesses.
In moving westward, by this route Russia would be moving among a race who, in spite of all they had suffered at the hands of the Czar, still would naturally prefer Slav to Teuton.
Naturally such a section would be thickly populated, not only on account of the fertile soil, but because the Niemen, like the Vistula, is one of the country's means of communication and transportation.
Both sides very freely used the protecting darkness of night to make attacks, and this naturallyadded a great deal to the hardships which the troops had to suffer.
The river is more than 600 feet wide, too deep to ford, and naturally none of the few bridges over it were available for the Germans.
Thus it will be seen that the invasion covered a front of considerably over a hundred miles and that six strong columns of the enemy had crossed, all of which naturally converged on Valievo.
Naturally in such a country roads are of prime importance in military operations.
Adjoining Osowiec on the north and making even more formidable and naturally very strong defensive line of the River Niemen are Grodno, Olita, and Kovno.
Naturally Aunt wants to see you settled in some business, as she knows she can't leave you anything.
