It is said to have been a favourite maxim with Lord Byron, "that every writer is interesting to others in proportion as he is able and willing to seize and to display to them the hidden workings of his own soul.
Here we saw the struggles of vice and virtue, wisdom and folly, and the desire of distinction, and the ambition of taking the lead, and the little workings of emulation, amid rags and tatters.
Before leaving Kalgoorlie the Prince visited workings on the forty-foot thick reef of the "golden mile" which is being gradually nibbled away.
The report of the Postmaster-General herewith transmitted gives a full history of the workings of the Department for the year just past.
My companion had told me of a trail some thirty miles up the river that led into the jungle about three miles, to some old gold workings that date back beyond the written records of the State.
But economic speculation has to do with the workings of nature only so far as regards the ordre physique.
Gerald imploringly to the old man, who now stood looking towards him with a harsh and stubborn expression of countenance, although the workings of emotion were faintly perceptible in the lineaments of his face.
Many of the native clergy were body and soul wrapt up in the workings of freemasonry and were Spain's worst and most crafty enemies.
He was the director of the workings of separatism and was the chief provider of arms for the revolt, as was testified by innumerable witnesses.
It is just because public opinion is so potent, and, like all other powers, so potent either for good or for evil, that its present disastrous workings are the more deplorable.
The Prelude is his autobiography; and The Excursion supplements what is lacking to a thorough revelation of theworkings of his mind.
Their correspondence, which extends over a period of more than a year, gives us a good picture of the workings of Shelley's mind during this time.
Only vague and rare references to the Underground Railroad and its workings are made in the newspapers of ante-bellum days, and these are of little value.
The other questions between the sections were subject to compromise, but party action could not control the workings of the Underground Railroad.
They reveal all the workings of his peculiar mania.
A rock shows you the marks of a glacier that scraped over it thousands of years ago, and looking on it you have a glimpse of the gigantic workings of the solar system.
The warning was very plain, and considering all that is at stake you must not leave the workings a moment.
If they went over to the opposition, the plea that my workings might damage their property, if encouraged by meddlesome politicians, would seriously hamper me.
At the least, through the good workings of Providence, that Luna which bore Miriam and her company escaped the perils of the deep and in due time reached the haven of Alexandria.
Gwennap was only about three miles away--formerly the centre of the richest mining district in Cornwall, the mines there being nearly six hundred yards deep, and the total length of the roads or workings in them about sixty miles.
Cookworthy, a Plymouth Quaker, had discovered an enormous bed of white clay, which had since been so extensively excavated that the workings now resembled the crater of an extinct volcano.
I believe I have not in the world a more faithful friend than Peggy; and her earnest desire to please me gratifies my benevolence, for I always observe with delight the workings of a grateful heart.
The church, which is almost screened from observation by the workings of a colliery, is a small, modern building, rather foreign in appearance.
The workings have now been abandoned, but many attempts have been made since Roman times to re-start them.
Numerous organic compounds are produced in foods as the result of the workings of microörganisms; some of these are poisonous, while others impart only special characteristics, as taste and odor.
Explain the workings of the Pasteur and Berkefeld water filters.
She was poorly clad, and her face bore every mark of the workings of great inward struggles.
The workings of her own mind were visible on her features.
O, soul, how thou dost relieve the labor of the mind, seeing with finer vision into the centre of life, and there beholding the countless workings of the inner being.
It is time for me now, withdrawing myself from these objects visible to the eye, to speak of the state of the people, and of the manner in which their affairs are affected by the workings of the system.
We shall, by-and-bye, have to laugh at the workings of envy in the very worms that we breed in our bodies!
What has taken place here is an instance of the workings of the system.
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