The river, as it flows, resembles the air that flows over it; the air resembles the light which traverses it with more subtile currents; the light resembles the heat which rides with it through Space.
He forges thesubtile and delicate air into wise and melodious words, and gives them wing as angels of persuasion and command.
With all this flexibility, there is yet a solidity of principle beneath, that makes the subtile American mind as real and controlling as that of the robust race from which it sprang.
The naïve sentiment of these poems forms a delicious contrast to the contemporaneous mature and subtile art of Provence, and the entire erudite armoury of love.
To-day the soul of a woman has frequently the same effect on man as her physical beauty; he enjoys it as a subtile charm instead of respecting it as a mystery.
I believe the early skies of Raffaelle owe their luminousness more to their untraceable and subtile gradation than to inherent quality of hue.
She holds this subtileessence more lightly in estimation now than formerly.
Still in this figure, that pointed one way and looked another, there was no distortion; all was easy, and full of that subtile grace we artists call repose.
A very extensive foundery of this kind is established at Grésik.
From the 6th the sun became obscured; it had every where the appearance of being enveloped in a fog.
The thicker sand fell entirely; there remained in the air a subtile red dust, something of the nature of pollen, through which the sun shone like a copper plate.
There arises over there in the brush a soft, persuasive cooing, a sound so subtile and wild and unobtrusive that it requires the most alert and watchful ear to hear it.
These magistrates might be oppressive, but they were not idle; and the subtile questions of justice and revenue were infinitely propagated under the new government, which professed to revive the freedom and equity of the Roman republic.
The famous dispute of the Three Chapters, [94] which has filled more volumes than it deserves lines, is deeply marked with this subtile and disingenuous spirit.
The winds might diffuse that subtile venom; but unless the atmosphere be previously disposed for its reception, the plague would soon expire in the cold or temperate climates of the earth.
In his life he was an elegant writer of the Syriac and Arabic tongues, a poet, physician, and historian, a subtile philosopher, and a moderate divine.
One of the most subtile disputants of the Manichaean school has pressed the danger and indecency of supposing, that the God of the Christians, in the state of a human foetus, emerged at the end of nine months from a female womb.
But the persuasion of Theodoric was not infected by zeal; and he piously adhered to the heresy of his fathers, without condescending to balance the subtile arguments of theological metaphysics.
But to all that fell from his lips, his eloquence, subtile and forcible as the wind, full and gently falling as the evening dew, lent a peculiar charm.
The solutions of the phenomena were attempted either on rude mechanical notions, or by occult qualities, or peculiar subtile spirits or ethers, supposed to exist in the different bodies.
With a subtile and exuberant wit,--he knew that wit touches not sacred things.
Perhaps a more subtle person might discover some more subtile reason for this; but this is the one that I see for it, and which pleases me the best.
But then, you have your passages and imbrocatas in courtship; as the bitter bob in wit; the reverse in face or wry-mouth; and these more subtile and secure offenders.
The subtile law of repetition, as regards the human will, is as sure in Determination as it is in Consciousness.
If therefore at any time he speak or practise truth, it is upon design, and a subtile inversion of the precept of God, to do good that evil may come of it.
Through the higher and more delicate sense-organs it perceives a continually wider range of more subtile elements in its environment.
The first motives are the appetites, but these are succeeded by ever higher motives as the perceptions become clearer and more subtile relations in environment are taken into account.
Winn smiled, for what man could resist such subtile flattery.
He little realized that a far more subtile influence than dividends had interested Jess Hutton, and a desire to conserve matters to the end that Mona might be made the happier, was the motive force that governed him.
An answering glance, a suppressed smile on either side, and an understanding was established, an alliance completed, a tie more subtile than Freemasonry confessed.
I am going now to write on another cause of family unhappiness, more subtile than either of those before enumerated.
They commune with the mass of men through the subtile freemasonry of discontent.
His faith becomes, by a subtile law of our being, his fact; the mountain is gifted with actual motion, and rewards the temerity of his zeal by falling upon him and crushing him forever.
He had that subtile chemistry that turns even failures to account, consumes them in its flaming ascent to new reaches.
What rays does he let into thesubtile paths where the spirit travels in its interrogations of Nature!
Whence that subtile correspondence and consanguinity, that the laws of man's mental structure tally with the phenomena of the universe?
Kepler puts the same naiveté into his speculative activity, with a subtile anatomy laying bare the metaphysique of his science.
To him had been opened the subtile secret, key to Nature, that Man and the Universe are built after one pattern, and he had faith to believe that the laws of his mind would unlock the phenomena of the world.
The core of my life was touched at that fatal river, and a subtile disease has eaten it out till nothing but the rind is left.
It would be a good piece of psychology to explore the principles of thissubtile mental power, and might go far to give us a philosophy of Anticipation.
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