In fairness to them, he had always sought out some topic in which they could take an equal part--something connected with the conduct of children, or the better ventilation of the new school-house and chapel.
And from the moment you start the interest in your visit will grow and increase until there will be no topic discussed in any of our papers except yourself, and what you are doing and what you mean to do.
After all, it's the only really interesting topicthere is.
What is of infinite worth is that the largest minds of the generation shall engage themselves with the topic of religion.
The familiar topic of justification, of which Luther made so much, was thus given again the central place.
His Hegelianism and Personality, 1893, deals with one aspect of the topic which needs ever again to be explored, because of the psychological basis which in religious discussion is now assumed.
The importance of the topic can hardly be overrated.
Those having been heard, the topic should be open to discussion by all present: the humblest and youngest being specially encouraged to state any facts within their knowledge which they deem pertinent and cogent.
If these brothers were to meet on the morrow, it must be with the full understanding that this especial topic was to be completely avoided.
But circumstances make it quite imperative that I should have a few words with you on a topic which need not be disagreeable to you, and probably will not be.
On every other topic he deferred to me with the utmost readiness and docility; on this he maintained his strange opinion with an obstinacy which set reason and persuasion alike at defiance.
A suitable hour of departure had arrived before I remembered that I had altogether failed to bring up thetopic which was the occasion of my visit--to wit, our prospective part in the commencement entertainment.
By noon the universal topic on 'Change was young Ernau's suicide and its cause, and the story flew like wildfire all through the town.
We shall both form the topic of Berlin gossip for at least a week.
The committal of Sir Alfred Arden for the murder of his twin brother occupied, of course, the attention of the whole country, and became for a time, almost the sole topic of conversation.
Caroline's sudden illness too had made matters worse; for its supposed cause had got abroad, and having spread from the English to the natives, became the universal topic of conversation with high and low.
The author of the ensuing article, the topic of which is just now one of special interest, is MR.
The "dump lot" was on the other side of the town and furnished an annual topic of discussion for the Eastshore Woman's Club.
Not only had Rosemary deliberately defied him and gone off that afternoon, but she had most certainly furnished topic for gossip in Eastshore for it was not possible in so small a town that her occupation had been unnoticed.
Whenever she was alone with Blanche, which was the greatest part of the day, Mr. Watkins was the one topic of conversation.
This has contained several articles and letters on the topicof French ex libris, and advocates the formation of an Ex Libris Society in Paris.
This plate is used only in the books relating to the topic it suggests.
She had guarded herself against attacks of possible snapshotters by carrying an open parasol, and Ailsa was glad to change the topic of conversation.
Dick sighed, perceiving that she had sought to divert him from the topic he had broached.
A fortnight elapsed before the governor's next appearance, and still Dick was as silent on the one topic as ever.
The topicof our conversation was of course Bokhara, Khiva, Herat, and Turkestan, places of which the learned decipherer of the cuneiform inscriptions of Behistan had an astounding store of information.
I have seen him and his friends red as the roast and white as the boiled with wrath on a popular topic they had excited themselves over, intrinsically not worth a snap of the fingers.
They were regarded in the county as the most indulgent of nonentities, and she as little as Lady Busshe was restrained from the burning topic in their presence.
Sir Willoughby dropped Laetitia; Clara's look of a sedate resolution to preserve silence on thetopic of the nuptial gifts made a diversion imperative.
She observes them, my efforts to divert them from being painful produce a comic expression to her, and I am a charming 'rogue', and I am entertained on the topic she assumes to be principally interesting me.
The topic of wine withdrew the doctor from his classics; it was magical on him.
And there is a great advantage in having a cultivated person at command, with whom one can chat of any topic under the sun.
There are lots of other messages I would like to stand on a hill and blow through a bugle, but the weather is too warm to admit of further effort just now; so we'll postpone the topic for another hearing.
Did he really wish not to pursue the topic which had brought Peregrine from his grave?
Still more may be gathered on the same topic from the indignant protest uttered by Roger Ascham in his 'Schoolmaster' (pp.
The last word on thetopic of the arts is given in one sentence.
Therefore, the fewer words we exchange upon the painfultopic the better.
I think that the whole topic of the "heteronomy" of the will, when it yields to empirical or sensible impulses, will have to be abandoned or profoundly modified.
But, even if we had no doubt on general grounds that Common Sense would prove our best guide in the pursuit of happiness, we should still be perplexed by finding its utterances on this topic very deficient in clearness and consistency.
Some of the jury would recollect when a discussion of this topic took place in the Legislature of Maryland upon a proposed law to the same effect, and they would remember that similar arguments were used there.
It has been truly said that this topic is one of excitement all over the country.
My entrance had interrupted a conversation, which Strauss presently resumed, and which proved to be on the eternal topic of politics.
His answer was evasive; and the topic was changed into an argument.
The great event of one day on this dreary waste was the discovery of two flies upon an ice hummock; these, says Parry, became at once a topic of ridiculous importance.
