A little to the right another cloud caught a reflexion of the sun, and showed golden margins.
The moon describes its arch in the sky, its restless reflexion quivering on the water, and broken by the wake of the boat.
The water of the shore lagoons was dark purple from the reflexion of the dense clouds.
Perhaps some of the nearest peaks of the Himalayas rise like islands above the sea of clouds, for here and there a reflexion from sun-lighted firn-fields seems to be trying to break through the veil of clouds (Illust.
We have a watery portal in front of us and the tips of the waves are gilded with the faint reflexion of the sun in the south.
I shall conclude with endeavouring to remove a difficulty which must naturally occur to any woman of reflexion on the subject of marriage.
In all this there is no reflexion or commentary by the author.
The best of the Sagas were just in time to escape that touch of over-reflexion and self-consciousness which checks the dramatic life and turns it into matter of edification or sentiment.
The reason is that in him the spirit of reflexionpredominates unduly over the spirit of action.
But though loaded with reflexion it never, like Browning's later works, ceases to be poetical, and it must be ranked very nearly at the head of its author's writings.
And, any way, a little reflexion might show that the apparently benevolent intention comes into collision with a very extensive and very stringent social obligation, that of not impairing our confidence in one another's assertions.
Reflexion is careful and laborious thought, and watchful attention directed to the agreeable effect of one's plan.
That delicate pause in Greek reflexion was joined, by some supreme good luck, to the perfect animal nature of the Greeks.
It has indeed committed itself to a train of reflexionwhich must end in a defiance of form, of all that is outward, in an exaggerated idealism.
Their only use is to sharpen farther reflexion and observation.
Quant au fond de la question, however, I am still in doubt and wait for the light of further reflexion to settle my opinion.
There is, I think, a very pretty Sunday reflexion for you, Lucy.
A moment's reflexion will convince you of the propriety of my staying here till his mother does me the honor again to approve his choice; or till our engagement is publicly known to be at an end.
In such a case the new ethical reflexion may have a disintegrating effect upon the traditional code, and give to the movement the character and importance of a revolution.
But more widespread perhaps than any belief, from its simplicity doubtless, is the idea that the body's shadow or reflexion is the soul.
The struggle between the two nationalities, the Celt and the Frank, found a reflexion in the sphere of religion.
It so fell in, unhappily for Strether, with that reflexion of his own prompted in him by the pleasant air of the Boulevard Malesherbes, that its disconcerting force was rather unfairly great.
A reflexion a candid critic might have made of old, for instance, was that it would have been happier for the son to look more like the mother; but this was a reflexion that at present would never occur.
Reflexion arrived but in time and established a provisional serenity.
Both the windows of the room stood open to the balcony, but it was only now that, in the glass of the leaf of one of them, folded back, he caught a reflexion quickly recognised as the colour of a lady's dress.
The author of the Reflexion on the Picture of Socinianism has made use of this argument, and M.
We must have recourse to reflexion or to meditation in order to effect this discrimination.
And so we shall discover, if we pursue our train of reflexion a little further.
Reflexion on the Picture of Socinianism, in opposition to M.
Bayle) that this writer after copious reflexion upon his answer, and upon the principle of his opponent, finally found that this principle could be reduced to the form of a demonstration.
Let us then by our reflexion supply what is lacking in our perception, in order to make the good of health more discernible.
It is the same with happiness: without reflexion there is none.
She had plenty to think about; but it was neither reflexion nor conscious purpose that filled her mind.
That most of the interest of the time had been owing to Mr. Osmond was a reflexion she was not just now at pains to make; she had already done the point abundant justice.
But a moment's reflexion assured her that she would do well not to betray to the worthy nun her desire to avoid Pansy's other friend.
This consisted in the reflexion that, after all, such things happened to other people and not to herself.
A reflexion which may serve to many moral and religious uses.
But each detail had fitted with another, into a sort of whole which was a reflexion of the priest's story.
If he consoled himself with the fact that Eve had out-argued Adam, he was mentally confronted by the reflexion that Adam had been a layman, and had not been called upon to sustain the dignity of a cardinal and an archbishop.
His head was bald, and shone like a skull in the yellow reflexion from the damask hangings.
In a flash she had guessed half the truth, and reflexion now brought her most of the rest.
These Greek marbles, on the contrary, with that figure yearning forward so graciously to the fallen leader, are deeply impressed with a natural pathetic effect--the truereflexion again of the temper of Homer in speaking of war.
Greek painting is represented to us only by its distant reflexion on the walls of the buried houses of Pompeii, and the designs of subordinate though exquisite craftsmen on the vases.
For the deceiving of the elephant with the reflexion of the moon, Benfey compares Disciplina Clericalis XXIV.
No one, so far as my observation reaches, has lived the perfect life like Abdul Baha, and he tells us himself that he is but the reflexion of Baha-'ullah.
Browne remarks, 'the prophet of a cycle is naught but a reflexion of the Primal Will,--the same sun with a new horizon.
To be so near to Naples, the most desired object of the whole journey, and now to turn back--that was a reflexion too fearful for me to bear with calmness!
My anxiety was yet more increased by the reflexion that I should have to compete with the greatest Violinist of the day; for in Prague I had learnt that Rode had just returned from Russia, and was expected in Vienna.
On our right we saw at the same time the reflexion from the burning lava which poured from an opening in the side of the mountain, which however it was impossible to approach without the greatest danger.
By the time he had made this reflexion he stood in the presence of his kinswoman and her venerable guest, who was sitting just as he had seen her before, muffled and bonneted, on the back piazza of the cottage.
But that reflexion was absent now, and in its absence he saw only the fact that his companion had been odiously perverted.
Nevertheless he stayed the time he had determined to stay; quieting himself with the reflexion that there was nothing they could do to elude him unless, perhaps, they should start again for Europe, which they were not likely to do.
Yet the act of reflexion was not suspended; he found himself rejoicing that she was so weak in argument, so inevitably verbose.
In summer, the reflexion of the sun from the rocks must make it intolerably hot; for even at this time of the year, I walked myself into a profuse sweat, by going about a quarter of a mile to see the gallies.
Indeed, there is no road fit for any wheel carriage, but the common highway to the Var, in which you are scorched by the reflexion of the sun from the sand and stones, and at the same time half stifled with dust.
He who accomplished this was Socrates, who turned his reflexion by preference upon man himself as the subject who thinks and wills.
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