What skill so fondly tends the soul's eclipse, Chafes the stiff limb, and breathes in breathless lips?
It should be remarked, however, that happiness is a wider aim than morality; although all virtuetends to produce happiness, very much that produces happiness is not virtue.
The operation of the associating principle tends to raise it above this point to the rank of a final end.
Even in our present low state of advancement, the deeply-rooted conception that each individual has of himself as a social being tends to make him wish to be in harmony with his fellow-creatures.
It may be alleged that, although desire always tends to happiness, yet Will, as shown by actual conduct, is different from desire.
Virtue tends to happiness, but does not always secure it.
Also, when children are brought up together, they are often annoyed by the same things, and thistends powerfully to create a fellow-feeling.
It is an exercise, also, which tendsat once to elevate and to purify the mind.
It is apt to lead to undue means for the accomplishment of its object; and every real or imagined failure tends to excite hatred and envy.
It terminates in no barren speculations, but tends directly to promote peace on earth, and good-will among men.
Sincerity is also opposed to flattery, which tends to give a man a false impression of our opinion, and of our feelings towards him, and likewise leads him to form a false estimate of his own character.
By thus leading us to compare ourselves with the supreme excellence, it tends to produce true humility, and, at the same time, that habitual aspiration after moral improvement which constitutes the highest state of man.
In proportion to its intensity and its steadiness, it tends to make the possessor both a happier and a better man, and to render him the instrument of diffusing happiness and usefulness to all who come within the reach of his influence.
Hence the benefit of retirement and calm reflection, and of every thing that tends to withdraw us from the impression of sensible objects, and lends us to feel the superiority of things which are not seen.
It is beautiful also to observe, how these affections arise out of each other, and how the right exercise of them tends to their mutual cultivation.
The high consistency of character, which results from this regulated condition of the moral feelings, tends thus to promote a due attention to the various responsibilities connected with the situation in which the individual is placed.
This leads to the highest state of man: and it bears this peculiar character, that it is adapted to men in every scale of society, and tends to diffuse a beneficial influence around the circle with which the individual is connected.
For each act of virtue tends to make him more virtuous; and each act of vice gives new strength to an influence within, which will certainly render him more more vicious.
I would that every judge who tends to this weakness (and nearly every judge, yes, and nearly every other person tends to it) might find his steps arrested by the warning example of Daniel Webster.
All that is slavish tends to keep up sectional prejudice and isolation.
The reply to the assertion that participation in political power is unwomanly, and tends to subvert the family relation, is simple and unanswerable.
It tends to confound and destroy all distinctions, and prostrate all ranks to one common level.
The situation tends to grow worse, and while one does not give up hope, for that would mean to give up serious effort, the outlook for the Indians at this place seems unfavourable.
How that name tends continually to depreciate itself as the pursuit of physical science is divorced more and more completely from a knowledge of literature, from a knowledge of the humanities!
If the mission to be built at the Crossing tends to keep these Indians on the Tanana River and thus away from the demoralisation of the diggings, it will do them solid service.
Somatic anthropology in particular tendsto assume in some quarters such an overimportance that one falls back upon the recollection that the original head measurers were hatters and that all hatters are proverbially mad.
In any case, when the ice edge recedes from the coast, it tends to recede until its edge reaches a position where the melting is less rapid than in its former position, and where the advance is counterbalanced by the waste.
The permanent stream, like the temporary one which preceded it, tends to deepen and widen its valley, and, under certain conditions, to lengthen it as well.
At the same time all the drainage which comes in at the sides tends to carry the walls of the valley farther from its axis.
It is in the light of a life story and its setting, however slight our knowledge, that creative work tends to assume proper proportions.
Our ubiquitous press tends to restrict the feast of reason and the flow of soul; men do not care to express themselves too freely, or the cleverest may wake one morning to find he has made some silent auditor famous.
This allows, after short wear, a play or "chug" of the knife which quickly tends to destroy its best cutting abilities.
Thou canst not wag thy finger, or begin "The least light motion, but it tends to sin.
What aim'st thou at, and whither tends thy care, } In what thy utmost good?
This Fact tends to show the common Origin of the aboriginal Inhabitants of Yucatan and Mexico.
Knowledge that the distinction is determined by a single segregable factor tends to prove that the critical difference is one of substance.
The admission must, however, be faced that nothing in recent work materially tends to diminish the surprise which has always been felt at the absence of sterility in the crosses between co-derivatives.
In this protracted struggle, the secular arm continually tends to withdraw the reduced Indian from the monastic hierarchy, and the missionaries are gradually superseded by vicars.
Every thing that tends to enlighten us with respect to the site of the volcanic fire, and the position of rocks subject to its action, is highly interesting to geology.
Change of times, or the intoxication of prosperity, certainly tends either to diminish or increase some natural traits in every man’s character, or to neutralise qualities which had previously been prominent.
The kilowatt capacity per square foot of floor area in both wheel and generator rooms combined tends to increase with the individual capacity of the generating units.
Anchor ice is formed in small particles in the water of shallow and fast-flowing streams, and tends to form into masses on solid substances with which the water comes in contact.
A wind that blows in a direction other than parallel with a transmission line tends to break the poles at the ground and prostrate the line in a direction at right angles to its course.
Conductors are sometimes attached to the station so that the strain of the line is borne by the side wall where they enter and tends to pull it out of line.
A pure lighting service tends toward the larger ratio between the average and maximum load, while a larger motor capacity along with the lamps, tends to reduce the ratio.
This number of periods in comparison with a smaller one tends to increase the cost of rotary converters but decreases the cost of transformers, and is suitable for both incandescent and arc lighting.
A strain of minor importance on pins is that encountered where a short pole has been set between two higher ones, and the line at the short pole tends to lift each insulator from its pin, and each pin from the cross-arm.
An alternating current when passing along a line tends to concentrate itself in the outer layers of the wire, leaving the centre idle.
The large degree of exemption from damage by lightning enjoyed by series arc dynamos is well known, the magnet windings of such machines acting as an inductance that tends to keep lightning out of them.
As a smaller conductor breaks or melts more readily than a large one, the use of two or more circuits instead of a single circuit tends to increase troubles of this sort.
Breaks in transmission conductors are due either to mechanical strains alone, as wind pressure, the falling of trees, or the accumulation of ice, or else to an arc between the conductors that tends to melt them at some point.
Lightning arresters are in some cases connected across high-voltage circuits from wire to wire so that the full line pressure tends to force a current across the air-gaps.
Much evidence recently tends to show that the trusts enjoy advantages of this sort not extended to other competitors.
The Pacific coast lumbermen can market their long timbers anywhere in the United States; but the demand for the common lumber, restricted to a sparsely populated region, tends to be exceeded by the supply.
This system is particularly advantageous because it tends to break up the pernicious basing point system, which tends to centralize all business at a few important points in the southern states.
The growth of middle western cities and manufactures, supplying Texas from their own domestic plants rather than merely redistributing goods manufactured in the East, also tends to modify the scheme.
The evidence tends to show that prices in general have moved upward during the last ten years by approximately one-fourth, and it may be even one-third.
The evidence tends to show that special rates granted in connection with industrial development tend to increase up to a certain point.
It is intended only to show that, provided the volume of traffic be large enough, the cost of operation tends to decline as a matter of course, until a condition of congestion for the existing plant has been reached.
Holding the railroad companies to strict compliance with all these statutory provisions, and enforcing obedience to all these provisions, tends .
Clausius formulates it as "The entropy of the world tendstoward a maximum.
This, however, can be maintained only by strenuous and persistent efforts, for society tends naturally to sink into the chaos out of which it has arisen.
But machinery tendsto bring styles and fabrics within the reach of all.
By making it a dominant element in their work, they have admitted their susceptibility to the modern ideal and thereby have given an impetus to the spirit which tends toward purification.
To the contrary, each tends to drag him down to the mediocre level of the world's criterion of greatness, to sap his vitality, to curb his heresies, to make of him a commonplace man.
This latter class has its usages, for it tends to lend impetus to the movement it follows.
The history of modern art is broadly the history of the development of form by the means of colour--that is to say, modern art tends toward the purification of painting.
In Egypt and India, where the climate naturally tends to make women thin, the fat ones are, as in Australia, the ideals of beauty, as their poets would make plain to us if it were not known otherwise.
But they undoubtedly are approximations, and as such may legitimately be used in our argument; more especially as final agreement tends to check and to support the several estimates which enter into them.
In short, we may suppose the entire development of the plant, towards meeting certain groups of external conditions, physiologically knit together according as Nature tends to associate certain groups of conditions.
For then all the pulling force adds itself to the lifting force and tends to crush the crust inwards on the central line beneath the satellite.
In the case of a nucleus of considerable size another effect comes in which tends to produce an enhanced shading.
Human nature tendsso readily towards individualism; it yields itself up to the joy of possession whenever it is possible.
All the evidence we possess tends to show that tracing descent through the mother was not the primitive custom.
But that does not explain why the river flows down-hill, nor show which direction tends downwards.
The division of labour, celebrated with such enthusiasm by Adam Smith,[27] tends to crush all real life out of its victims.
Familiarity with the actual machinery of politics tends to strengthen the contempt for general principles, of which Macaulay had an ample share.
Sorrow too often tends to produce bitterness or effeminacy of character.
Paris, the actor, sets forth very vigorously that the stage tends to lay bare the snares to which youth is exposed and to inflame a noble ambition by example.
As consolidation advances, fear yields to greed, and the economic organism tends to supersede the emotional and martial.
I can quote a fact of rather a striking character, which tends to show that a contracting operation upon the circulation tends to cheapen the cost of our manufactured productions, and therefore to increase our exports.
All the evidence tends to prove that the ogive came from the Levant, and without the ogive Gothic architecture could never have developed.
Rationalism tends to emphasize universals and to make wholes prior to parts in the order of logic as well as in that of being.
He tends rather to corroborate the reality of them, so long as I believe both them and him to be good.
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