Our ideas are the offspring of our senses, we are not more able to create the form of a being, we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense.
Boston, stated: "I do not remember in the whole course of the half-century's retrospect .
The above retrospect suggests that Japan, in those early days, borrowed her educational system and its subjects of study entirely from China.
To answer that question some retrospect is needed.
Here, as in virtually every field of things Japanese, retrospect discovers the ubiquitous Chinaman.
In the year's retrospect of science, touching the solar eclipse it is said: "Cape Flattery is our northwestern cape, and there occurred the largest obscuration of the sun in the United States.
If I had not cut short my mild retrospect by these possibly milder generalizations, I should have touched lightly upon some of the social phenomena of which the little beach at Etretal was the scene.
Grief and resentment, retrospect and foreboding, vanished--all life before and after melted away in the bliss of that moment, as Anthony pressed his lips to hers.
This journey occupied them about two weeks, and on returning home John Yeardley makes the following animating remark:-- The retrospect of this journey in connexion with that of Wales afforded a sweet feeling of peace.
Stoic and Epicurean wisdom and righteousness came too late to save free Hellas: they were the fruits of retrospectin decadence.
From the Polonian prattle of Cicero to his son we can gather how all schemes of reconstruction were viewed by the ruling class, whether in retrospect or prospect.
The plan of the whole thing, in one hundred and thirty scenes, which seemed at first confused, now appears in retrospect orderly; and the projection of the various geographical scenes is thoroughly architectonic.
The passion that had been in him, although it had not touched her, now in retrospect lit fires for her imagination.
In retrospect I am still struck with the diplomacy of my words.
Let us leave the invader at "Sancoik's," while we take a retrospect of relative events on the part of the Americans.
It was suggested by a retrospectof the "Boston massacre," and was a most unjust and insulting comment upon the verdict in favor of Captain Preston and his soldiers.
The scene in retrospect appeared improbable, just as improbable in one way, just as shockingly improbable as the arrival of an angry rustic father at some Varsity digs in Longwall.
Yet the evenings were always to Michael in retrospect valuable, betokening a period of perfect happiness from the lighting of the first pipe to the eating of the last meringue.
In retrospect his chivalry was seeming uncommonly like self-satisfaction.
When Michael lay awake in the train going northward he remembered very vividly the sense of subordination which in retrospect suddenly seemed to him to reveal the essential majesty of Spain.
I am afraid that this moment of his arrival was the first realisation in his life of that stern truth that that which seems romantic in retrospect is only too often unpleasantly realistic in its actual experience.
The retrospect is such as should fill the hearts of our people with gratitude to Providence for his kind interposition in their behalf.
It is inspiring to read in retrospect of the facts such high-couraged writing as in these letters.
Let us take a hasty retrospect of the poetical literature of this Country for the greater part of the last two centuries, and see if the facts support these inferences.
As I do not mean to bring down this retrospect to our own times, it may with propriety be closed at the era of this distinguished event.
And this I shall prove by trying this act of their's by principles of justice which are of universal obligation, and by a reference to those moral sentiments which rise out of that retrospect of things which has been given.
However, I can speak of it all now in quiet retrospect and without bitterness.
It is only when I survey the whole garden movement in melancholy retrospect that I am able to see some of the reasons for it.
He states further in this same connection: “I look back in retrospectand have not a little fun over my ‘monkey diet’ days.
Calm retrospect shows that the Confederacy's commissioners were, from first to last, only played with by the skilled sophists of Europe.
Our Voyage having come to an end, I will take a short retrospect of the advantages and disadvantages, the pains and pleasures, of our circumnavigation of the world.
This instantaneous, involuntary retrospect was followed by a keen and rapid survey of the religious belief in which I had been trained, and which then seemed to me my only important concern.
The retrospect of the whole past tells of a continuous evolution, which in the twentieth century proceeds more extensively than ever before.
On the intense aversion of most of the Presbyterians to toleration see Tayler, Retrospect of Relig.
Tayler, Retrospect of the Religious Life of England, Martineau's ed.
It is easy to see on retrospect that the source of his influence as a writer lay above all things in his healthy critical ethic, his own mode of progression being by way of simple common sense and natural feeling, not of critical research.
Goethe, who was clearly much impressed by Basedow, and travelled with him, draws a somewhat antagonistic picture of him on retrospect (Wahrheit und Dichtung, B.
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