The farce enlarged the sphere of Molière's enemies, but as the poet suffered none of the faculty to prescribe for him, their resentment was of the less consequence.
Tales of a Traveller" appeared in 1824, and Irving, now in comfortable circumstances determined to enlarge his sphere of observation by a journey on the Continent.
But Mr. Browning in his ownsphere had no rival and no imitator.
Every sphere has its code of honour and duty peculiar to itself.
He had done his duty rigidly in that sphere of life where he had lived so much alone among his many comrades.
This was the fact that God had appointed him to the office of an apostle and allotted him a specific sphere of activity as the apostle of the Gentiles.
Even outside of his own peculiar sphere altogether, St. Paul was equal to every occasion.
In my last lecture I spoke of the vast sphere of operations assigned to St. Paul and of the almost superhuman exertions which he made to fill it.
Their healthy and spontaneous activity is the soul of ministerial work; and this is stimulated by the sense of responsibility to fill the sphere allotted to us and exhaust its possibilities.
But, in point of fact, the sphere allotted to him was an enormous one.
But a minister is no minister unless he come to his sphere of labour under a far higher sanction--unless he be sent from God, with a message in his heart which he is burning to pour forth upon men.
It is far easier, however, to acknowledge this view in the abstract than to cherish it habitually towards the actual men and women of our own sphere and our own vicinity.
It may seem easy to be faithful in a small sphere and to exhaust all its possibilities.
One of the three nonagenarians before referred to expressed himself as having a great curiosity about the new sphere of existence to which he was looking forward.
A dingy, dull-looking sphere it was in its appearance.
She submitted willingly to the superiority of her husband, and left to his care and management with absolute confidence all that lay outside the sphere of the actual housekeeping.
The noble and refined genius of young Mozart now, as ever, raising to a higher sphere all with which it came in contact, was able to transform and quicken even such miserable trash as this.
He trembled for the dangers which would beset the inexperienced youth, leaving the narrow sphere of provincial life to encounter the temptations of the great world.
We call their attention to the fact that our brethren have encroached upon the sphere of woman.
Women naturally take no interest in questions where their opinions have no weight, in a sphere of action from which they are excluded.
If the larger sphere now open to her is not a new discovery, it is at least a new testament.
The activities which are considered the especial sphere of woman need more brain; the realm of State developed by the brain of man needs more heart.
But she has her sphere and she ought not go beyond it.
My friend, who gave you the right to determine what that sphere should be?
So is woman influencing the world, and as her sphere widens the world grows better.
It is said that the suffrage is to be given to enlarge the sphere of woman's influence.
Would you not resent an attempt on the part of any man, or set of men, to fix your mental status, assign your work in life and lay out with mathematical precision your exact sphere in the world?
When Governor he said in his message to the Legislature of 1899: "I call your attention to the desirability of gradually enlarging the sphere in which the suffrage can be extended to women.
Thus woman, seeking to strive with man, is made feebler by the very spirit of love which in her own sphere is her chiefest strength.
The Crown Prince Ludwig, when he took Cornelius and Schnorr out of the Roman circle, at least created a fatherland for German art, and later on the others also found at home a suitable sphere of activity.
Ingres was again, like David, a very mediocre flesh-painter, and the Romanticists entered this sphere but seldom.
They were all leaders in the battle for liberty against fossilised tradition,--some in the field of poetry only, others in the wholesphere of intellectual life.
In this sphere also, where, under the pressure of old traditions and conventional types, it is so difficult to avoid plagiarism, Delacroix maintained his individuality.
At that time, while the spirit of Louis XIV still hovered over everything, the passion of the individual to be king in his own sphere had penetrated into the family.
I have no feeling except of kindness for the State banks, especially when they keep within the proper sphere of banks, and do not undertake to supply a currency for the country.
Does any Senator, in the name of State Rights, claim that the enlarged navy of the Republic, as it floats into a Northern port, shall be brought within the sphere of local taxation, whether State or municipal?
While Washington governed from Philadelphia, that city was as much a social centre as Paris or London, though of lesser sphere of influence.
She was still the housewife; but her sphere was becoming enlarged and her ideas different.
Of the recent developments of the American woman's activities, the sphere of which is ever enlarging, the author admirably projects on his page all the salient movements.
Her sphere of action became rapidly enlarged; she grew to be a power as well as an influence.
So accustomed to the new status of women did we soon become that we failed to recognize how radical was the change which had taken place in the general conception of the sphere of womanhood.
More and more insistent became the cry for equal footing with the men in matters which were not generally deemed within the sphereof femininity.
Idrisi made for the Norman king a celestial sphere and a disk representing the known world of his day--both in silver.
But the light from an internal source goes wholly out; and the amount per second from each unit source is 4[pi], the total area of the unit sphere surrounding the source.
In expounding these ideas Socrates limited himself to the sphere of practice.
Plato used it in the sphere of metaphysics for the eternally existing reality, the archetype, of which the objects of sense are more or less imperfect copies.
He could no longer find pleasure in anything, either in real life or in the sphere of the imagination.
The sphere of His mission was where His kingdom should be, in the great interior of the heart.
The metaphysical question which men were then so fond of discussing, whether matter can think, appears very far removed indeed from the sphere of political conceptions.
People were not strongly agitated by the question whether a blind man who had learned to distinguish a sphere from a cube by touch, would instantly identify each of them if he received sight.
One of these ideas is the exclusion of political authority from the sphere and function of directing opinion; it implies the absolute secularisation of government.
It did not long remain so full and entire as it was now in the sphere of religious belief, but the traces of it never disappeared from his notions on morals and art.
The conception of the duties of the temporal authority in the spiritual sphere had been associated hitherto with Catholic doctrine.
Yet imaginative strokes are not wanting to soften the repulsive theme, and to bring the sordid and the foul within the sphere of art.
It is that the sphere and destiny of women are among the three or four foremost questions in social improvement.
He who chose us out of the world sent us back into it, there to find our sphere of service; and in order to such service we must keep in close and vital touch with human beings as did our divine Lord Himself.
Every child of God, he maintained, is first to get into the sphere appointed of God, and therein to exercise full trust, and live by faith upon God's sure word of promise.
He found them in every conceivable sphere of service, many of them having households in which the principles taught in the orphan homes were dominant, and engaged in the learned professions as well as humbler walks of life.
He was still generally entitled to the "third penny" of the county, but his office tended, under Norman influence, to become an hereditary dignity and his sphere was restricted by the Conqueror to a single county.
After some other unsuccessful attempts in the field of drama, she found her true sphere in narrative.
Now a geodesic is not necessarily the shortest path between two given points on it; for example, on the sphere a great-circle arc ceases to be the shortest path between its extremities when it exceeds 180 deg.
But at length he found his proper spherein the pulpit.
The genius of the author reappeared in its appropriate sphere in L'Ecole des Maris (same date), where a Terentian suggestion is adapted and carried out with the greatest skill.
Yet the result of it all is the plant world as we know it to-day, each kind struggling to increase its sphere of influence, or to cover more of the earth’s area.
Before considering some of these structures we may profitably see how some plants look after the dispersal of their seeds within their own limited sphere of action.
The western mines were being actively worked; Damnonia (Devon and Cornwall) was evidently being drawn much more closely into the Roman sphere of civilization.
His main sphere of action is said by the Chronicle to have been Sussex; but probably, commanding as he did an army whose base was the sea, he had other fields of operations.
But no sooner was it called into thissphere of activity, than it became, we repeat, a gigantic success.
The French sanglant has even a wider sphere of application, and in its legitimate sense is even a greater favourite than our own adjective, but no such evil days have overtaken it.
The design was not bent to accommodate them, but they were translated and lifted up into the sphere of Art.
They seem to be full of destiny, bearing you along, as upon an inevitable tide, towards some larger sphere of action.
But this stepping out of the appropriate sphere of religious and moral reform, into the arena of political strife, under a vast and powerful political machinery of their own creation, puts them in a new position.
They have generally passed readily and regularly, as a matter of course, from one sphere of action to the other, accumulating forces as they advanced.
