Indeed, I fancy that in the traits at which I loved most to look, the life of Venice is not so much changed as her fortunes; but at any rate I am content to remain true to what was fact one year ago.
His individual traits are displayed in all his characters, and he is ever a coward, a boaster, and a liar; a glutton and avaricious, but withal of an agreeable bonhomie that wins the heart.
Certain traits of soft and familiar dependence give great charm to the populace; but their existence makes the student doubtful of a future to which the plebeians themselves look forward with perfect hope and confidence.
There is still a helplessness in many of the servant class, and a disposition to look for largess as well as wages, which are the traits naturally resulting from a state of voluntary submission to others.
It was pointed out that if certain traits denoted the criminal, the converse should be seen in the honest man.
Watch their littletraits for hours, and it only tantalizes curiosity.
The stories of the exploits of the Flibustiers show that their outlaw-life had developed all the powerfultraits which make pioneering or the profession of arms so illustrious.
He is a man of much natural force, of strong, if not violent, traits of character; but he has too keen a sense of his own dignity to intimate the existence of desires so discreditable to him.
A man of great natural force--of strong, if not violenttraits of character," he kept repeating to himself.
Her beauty, as well as the imposing traitsof her character, was the cause.
One of the Admiral's most pleasing traits was his appreciation of the services of his assistants.
One of the most marked traits in young Boggs was his perfect coolness in times of peril and his instant perception of the best thing to do.
He would often, and with special stress, remark that he who suffers any of his essential traits to be thus changed has been subdued and killed by the world, and has ceased to exist as himself.
It is almost miraculous that, just when I desire to produce in my work the image of a pure and active man of the present day, the very traits I seek are found in the man who, in the free course of nature, is to belong to me.
I do not care to make myself better than I am; that is, I should like to make myself better, but all one can do is to improve the good traits that already exist, and that one good trait I do not possess.
But we look about in vain for traits as characteristic of what may be individually the character of the nation, as we can find at a glance in reference to Spain, England, France, or Turkey.
Most of the traits which are considered to mark his character at a later period were wanting to him in youth.
In other of his works, I have admired his skill in giving the minute traits of passion, and his intrepidity, not inferior to that of Le Sage and Cervantes, in facing the dark side of human nature.
Then she assumes in his eyes those traits which the Romish church loved to revere in Mary.
The characters of the marshals are kept up with the greatest spirit, and that power of seizing leading traits that gives these sketches the greatness of dramatic poetry.
The party was more entertaining, because native traits came out more clear from the disguises of vanity and tact.
It is not by an inventory of facts or traits that what is most vital in character, and which makes its due impression on contemporaries, can be apprehended or depicted.
These traits of domestic life are given with much grace and delicacy of sentiment.
The same traits of character might be seen in Colonel Lloyd's slaves, as are seen in the slaves of the political parties.
In this discussion of mind in the lower animals I have endeavored to show that the psychical traits evinced by them indicate that their mental organisms, taken as a whole, are the same in kind as that of man.
Faith was the second of these central traits in George Muller, and it was purely the product of grace.
In Mr. Muller these traits were all found and conjoined in a degree very seldom found in any one man, and this fact sufficiently accounts for his remarkable likeness to Christ and fruitfulness in serving God and man.
Our Lord frequently taught His disciples that the childlike spirit is the soul of discipleship, and in the ideal child these three traits are central.
Individuals are commonly considered as differing in respect to such traits either quantitatively or qualitatively, either in degree or in kind.
Thorndike's "Inventory of Original Tendencies" offers a detailed classification of the traits transmitted biologically.
There, again, is the Rhone Valley and the broad diagonal strip from Paris to Bordeaux, characterized alike by strong infusion of Teutonic traits and relative frequency of the same social phenomenon.
In our casual contact with aliens, however, it is the offensive rather than the pleasingtraits that impress us.
Let us now consider some of the physical traits of man that follow the same law as brown eye color, traits that are clearly positive, and due to a definite determiner in the germ plasm.
But precisely in the measure that a society departs from this condition, that individual traits are recognized and made available, or social change of any sort comes to pass, in that measure must there be competition.
Through domestication and breeding man has modified the original inheritable traits of plants and animals.
No doubt all human traits are inherited in accordance with these principles; but knowledge proceeds slowly in this field.
Studies ofTraits of Individual Peoples: (1) Fouillée, A.
The difference between any two individuals, if describable at all, is described by comparing the amounts which A possesses of various traits with the amounts which B possesses of the same traits.
What evidence is there for the position that sex differences in mental traits are acquired rather than inborn?
Tests for physical and mental traits have now reached a stage of accuracy and precision.
The significance of these traitsconsists in the way in which they enter into the rôle of the individual in his social milieu.
In Greek mythology, individual traitsof human nature are abstracted, idealized, and personified into gods.
In these groups their traits one after another are carried to an extreme and these stages of extreme specialization give way one after another to phases of degeneration.
The dipnoan and ganoid traits one by one are more or less completely lost.
As a possible tentative hypothesis we may say that the retention of the higher primitive traits in the tropics is due to continuous selection, the testing of individuals by the greater variety of external conditions.
Hybrids of the different salmon or trout usually share nearly equally the traits of the parent species.
These traits of progress separate the Elasmobranchs from all lower vertebrates.
This means the preservation through heredity of the traits not of the species alone, but those of the actual individuals set apart to be the first in the line of descent in a new environment.
These are degenerate allies, as is shown by the fact that their vertebrate traits are shown in their early or larval development and scarcely at all in their adult condition.
Thus these fishes unite in themselves traits of the shark, lung-fish, and Ganoid.
The character of Oldbuck, like most characters in fiction, is a combination of traits observed in various persons.
It was indeed impossible that traits proper to persons, both living and dead, with whom I have had intercourse in society, should not have risen to my pen in such works as Waverley, and those which, followed it.
Such are a few traits of Scottish mendicity, designed to throw light on a Novel in which a character of that description plays a prominent part.
One of Edie's most charming traits is his readiness to "fight for his dish, like the laird for his land," when a French invasion was expected.
Other traitsmay have been suggested by John Clerk of Eldin, whose grandfather was the hero of the story "Praetorian here, Praetorian there, I made it wi' a flaughter spade.
The fairesttraits of a character sketched by Paul, found in him perfect illustration.
And Maud's, face brightened; for destructiveness is one of the earliest traits of childhood, and ripping was Maud's delight.
Fortunately those who have the skill to detect these traits also possess the spirit to appreciate and often the power to serve and develop them.
But with Fanny and Polly he showed the domestic traits and virtues which are more engaging to womanly women than any amount of cool intellect or worldly wisdom.
And yet some of these “Keys” have been of great use to modern commentators, and served to elucidate several traits in the “Characters” which otherwise would not have been discovered.
Some traits of this character apply to Saumery, a gentleman-in-waiting of the Duke of Burgundy, a grandson of Louis XIV.
It is possible they inherit thesetraits of obedience.
The inner traits of his character were very difficult to be read.
These traits are not generally reckoned as marks of good fortune; but they do tend to increase the amount of happiness which a man enjoys in this world.
The characters show traitsof Goethe's parents, and possibly something of his wife is in Dorothea.
In the course of time, however, Goethe invested him more and more with the costume and traits of the traditionary Devil.
VI Mr. John Lummox was not behind his employer in developing unexpected traitsof character.
Look now; ye shall see one of the greatest traits of the English Stalky.
Sitting across from her, he made her think of directness and dependability and other traits she was accustomed to refer to as "primitive virtues.
