To put the question in brief, and in a practical form, is a railway train the place to study character, or is it only a place to observe characteristics?
Here again, as in the previous lectures, what we have to observe and follow is not a logical syllogism, nor a geometrical proposition neatly and accurately worked out.
Observe the absence of the old-fashioned rubber tires, still used by the less progressive peoples.
The girl started as at the sound of an air bomb; for a moment she elevated her eyes and looked him full in the tangent, then she lowered them again but continued to observe him through her mental periscope.
They all paused to observe the graceful green bark, in which was seated the boy with the book, as Grace described him.
From an epigram of Martial, we may observe that it is the fittest place to take one's standing for a full prospect of the city (Martial, "Epig.
I thought you had good reason to observe the strictest silence on such subjects.
Enter the church and observe the same contrast there.
The French peasants observe the wholesome rule of never drinking red wine without 'breaking a crust' at the same time.
As the stream bore them past Farr and Miss Stuart she did not apparently observe them, withdrawn as they were into the corner, and falling out of the line of people, selected seats at a short distance from them.
I particularly wish you to observe the effect of light on those cliffs--it's well worth your while.
Did you observe "the intense delight in biting expressed in their eyes"?
But I'm vurry glad to observe that you and Mr. Culchard are so perfectly harmonious, as I'm leaving him on your hands for a spell.
From her owl-tower did not old Frau Himmelauen use to observe me, my cane, and my curls, and my gloves?
For, however formal etiquette may be laid aside in the bosom of his family, a paterfamilias is none the less bound to observe the laws of courtesy.
He descends at Main street, just in time to observe the man with the ladder and paint-pot working his way up along.
Her face was clean; and Ida could not but observe its beauty, as she blushed and smiled an embarrassed welcome.
You observe the Delta formed by the fork of the river.
There are still in Salonica descendants of the sect of Sabbatai-Querido-Berachya, who observe a mixture of Kabbalistic and Turkish usages.
Boerne's wit was felt the more keenly, because at every turn one could perceive the correctness of the picture and observe the genuineness and integrity of the painter.
He excited so much attention that all the Jews of Hebron, in order to observe him, refrained from sleep during the night of his stay.
Spies were appointed to visit the synagogues from time to time, as eleven centuries before in the Byzantine empire, in order to observewhether this concluding prayer was pronounced aloud or in a whisper.
Sachs did not fail to observe the objectionable excrescences which had arisen on its surface, but he knew their origin, and believed that time, which had produced, would destroy them.
He spoke with enthusiasm, like a man who, having lost self-control, has no wish to observeany measure in words or feelings.
Our suffering is not allayed yet; hence we will exhibit it to the world in every form which sculpture can employ, and observe carefully if we are beautiful in our suffering and if people recognize this beauty.
According to him, it behooved Vinicius not to look on the affair as won, and to observe the greatest caution, without which all their work might end in nothing.
May Venus inspire her, however, with another love as soon as possible; but since she desires thee thou must observe the very greatest caution.
Nowhere did I observe stucco decorations in so good a state of preservation as that which is depicted in his Figure 208.
It is perhaps not without importance to observe that the same change from architrave to archivolt took place, though at a rather later date, in the stone-building regions of western Asia.
The advance in structural knowledge thus gained was carried little further in these regions; indeed it is curious to observe that Ukhaiḍir exhibits a movement in the opposite direction.
Yet it is interesting to observe that it was at first innocent of any building except the Ka’bah.
It is remarkable to observe that in spite of his great services he was not knighted until 1417, when he was already forty years of age.
I observe that this proves the existence of a path or lane where is now Upper Kennington Lane.
We mayobserve that if there had been a permanent settlement here--a town of any importance--they would have built a wall to protect it.
As a soldier he had to harden himself: as a governor he had to observe justice rather than pity: as a judge it was his duty to punish criminals.
Observe that this faithful person gets the 'articles' that his master wants: he also reports on the strength of the rebellion in-so-much that Sir John breaks up his garrison and retreats across the river to the Tower.
As they hurry past you observeon each the same expression, the same set eagerness, with which the day's work is approached.
Observe also the restlessness of the woman: she can never have enough of pilgrimage: she loves the company: the change: the things that one sees: the people that one meets.
Now, if you look once more at the map of the south as it was, you will observe that London at its first commencement had no communication with any part of the world except by water.
Observe that the writer is certainly airing some City scandal of the day, and that his readers know perfectly well who was meant.
It is usually girdled with a leathern strap with a rosary of much larger beads than we observe on female brasses, and without any decads.
In 1559, there was a tight sleeve ruffled at the wrist, and with an epaulet upon the shoulder, pinked; and at the same period we observe the earliest specimen of the ruff, and the rudiments of the habit shirt.
I would observe that I make no distinction of parties; both, to my knowledge, are equally guilty; and whenever the managers find a purse, they fly to it as an eagle does to a carcase.
On entering the works we pass the timekeeper’s office, and observe on the right hand a large range of brick buildings.
During the first half of the fifteenth century, we observe a frightfully ugly mode of shaving of the hair all round, to some height above the ears.
On leaving the yard we ascend the hill and observe a handsome school-house, built in the Gothic style, and we learn that it was built by Messrs.
In 1538 we observe a graceful form of head dress, like what is termed the Mary Queen of Scots’ cap.
It is amusing, too, to observe how, to men of often such really wide minds, all theological authority is represented by the various social types of contemporary Anglican or dissenting dignitaries.
Now these difficulties are doubtless quite as great as James Mill thought they were; but we must observe this, that they are not of the same kind.
The class of men concerned with it are like soldiers who may be fighting more bravely perhaps than ever; but who are fighting, though none observe it, with the death-wound under their uniforms.
If it is real, it can observe us, as it observes all reality.
I was told to observe Aschehoug, for I should live to see him the greatest politician in the North of Europe.
Where it is impossible not to observe elements of likeness, as between Byron and Musset, we may take them to be actual, and no matters of chance.
We may observe the case of Cowley, who, I think, had certainly read Malherbe and was influenced by him, in spite of the diametrical views they nourished with regard to the merit of Pindar.
Here, however, returning for a moment to Landor, we may observe that he is never so close-packed and never so cryptic as the author of Chrysaor and Gunlaug.
Here, as earlier at Point Hill, I was his guest, and it was wonderful to observe how his whole moral and intellectual nature seemed to burgeon and expand in the new and delicious liberty of country life.
Besides the diversity that reigns among them in the three Khanats and in Chinese Tartary, you may further observe that the dwellers in villages generally possess more signs of the national type than townsmen.
It is amusing to observe how these scamps change their sentiments, their religion, and political opinions, according to circumstances.
I pretended not to observewhat was passing in his mind, and putting him on shore at Constantinople, I was about to take leave of him, after having amply provided him with money.
I observe with pleasure, that of the seeds, which I brought with me from Central Asia, several kinds have succeeded in Hungary.
That our good Tartars ill-observe these conditions will be evident to all who have some idea about the countries situated between Oxus and Yaxartes.
M'sieu' will observe that I am accused of the crime of--what is it called in English?
The reader should observe that practically all of this testimony comes from Jones.
Can you not see the waves, and observe him falling down the hole?
It is of great historical importance to observethe firm hold taken by this fabulous character upon the English people, as evinced by the fact that he has been a popular hero of the English epic ever since.
With these before us, let us observe that names, chronology, geography, costumes, and customs are as nothing in his eyes.
A glance at contemporary history will give us an intelligent clue to our literary inquiries, and cause us to observe the historical character of the literature.
In considering his character, we must first observe the power of his imagination; it was so strong and all-absorbing, that it shut out the real and the true.
That which we observe in the consciousness of Jesus we find in the experience of all Christians.
But this is not a metaphysical doctrine; it is a process of study, a method which consists in these two essential rules: to observe each fact as it presents itself; and to observe it in its order, i.
God is not a phenomenon that we may observe apart from ourselves, or a truth demonstrable by logical reasoning.
I observe that in the physical as in the moral world there is, in each phenomenon, a latent force, a sort of potential energy, which raises it and urges it beyond itself.
We may observe casually that he was not destitute of personal attractions; he was above middle height, with a slender and well-proportioned figure, and he had dark auburn hair and fine dark eyes.
They were both so huddled up together that the villagers scarcely noticed them, and the Captain was therefore all the better able toobserve the young woman, who appeared to be withdrawing herself as much as possible from public gaze.
Why did Zametoff observe that I had spoken very sensibly?
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