(said she after a short pause) "I cannot support this silence you must not leave me to my own
reflections; they ever recur to Augustus."
Elinor, who had now been for some time reflecting on the propriety or impropriety of speedily hazarding her narration, without feeling at all nearer decision than at first, heard this; and perceiving that as
reflection did nothing, resolution must do all, soon found herself leading to the fact.
A very thin and very agile person may, by observing his
reflection in a rapid sequence of longitudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks.
But to understand phenomena man has, besides abstract reasoning, experience by which he verifies his
reflections. And experience tells us that power is not merely a word but an actually existing phenomenon.
With that comforting
reflection, he drew out a battered tin cash-box from the inner recesses of the drawer, and locked up the stolen correspondence to bide its time.
These
reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the
reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, "Is any affliction like mine?" Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.
Thus the legislatures, courts, and magistrates, of the respective members, will be incorporated into the operations of the national government AS FAR AS ITS JUST AND CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY EXTENDS; and will be rendered auxiliary to the enforcement of its laws.[1] Any man who will pursue, by his own
reflections, the consequences of this situation, will perceive that there is good ground to calculate upon a regular and peaceable execution of the laws of the Union, if its powers are administered with a common share of prudence.
I am speaking of the EQUALITY of sides, and it does not need much
reflection to see that the whole of the social life in Flatland rests upon the fundamental fact that Nature wills all Figures to have their sides equal.
One consolatory
reflection upon her conduct had occurred to her at the first moment of the final rupture, and when now she recalled all the past, she remembered that one
reflection.
Knightley, first in interest and affection.Satisfied that it was so, and feeling it her due, she had enjoyed it without
reflection; and only in the dread of being supplanted, found how inexpressibly important it had been.Long, very long, she felt she had been first; for, having no female connexions of his own, there had been only Isabella whose claims could be compared with hers, and she had always known exactly how far he loved and esteemed Isabella.
'That's a very gratifying
reflection, Sam,' said Mr.
Elizabeth disdained the appearance of noticing this civil
reflection, but its meaning did not escape, nor was it likely to conciliate her.
These are the
reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.
It is true that he had no wife, that is to say, she was as no wife to him, and so I was in no danger that way, but the just
reflections of conscience oftentimes snatch a man, especially a man of sense, from the arms of a mistress, as it did him at last, though on another occasion.
The truth is, as the sagacious Sir Roger L'Estrange observes, in his deep
reflections, that, "if we shut Nature out at the door, she will come in at the window; and that puss, though a madam, will be a mouser still." In the same manner we are not to arraign the squire of any want of love for his daughter; for in reality he had a great deal; we are only to consider that he was a squire and a sportsman, and then we may apply the fable to him, and the judicious
reflections likewise.
