When total blindness closed in, Tarkington said: "I found I could take the loss of my eyesight, just as a man can take anything else. If I lost all five of my senses, I know I could live on inside my mind. For it is in the mind we see, and in the mind we live, whether we...
But, says Coleridge, while allegory is merely ‘ a translation of abstract notions into a picture language, which is itself nothing but an abstraction from objects of the senses . . a symbol is characterized by a translucence of the special [the species] in the individual, or o f the gene...
10 - Good Lord, that poor child’s dress is in flitters. Underfed she looks too. Potatoes and marge, marge and potatoes. It’s after they feel it. Proof of the pudding. Undermines the constitution. 11 - As he set foot on O’Connell bridge a puffball of smoke plumed up from...
In several other senses, however, they are relative. First, the software being tested was not the final release version. Second, different computer types will, of course, provide different performance for the same test. Finally, the performance of different application types depends greatly on the...
In this book, however, priority will be given to the commonly accepted senses of words, making no distinction between the internet and the web (despite the inaccuracy). 1 更准确地说,20 世纪 90 年代出现的不是互联网,而是在互联网上运行的超文本系统,即 "万维网"。不过,在本书中,我们将优先考虑...
say nothing--my heart is full of delight--my senses are entranced--let the time I marked pass in peace." I humoured him: the watch ticked on: he breathed fast and low: I stood silent. Amidst this hush the quartet sped; he replaced the watch, laid the picture down, rose, and stoo...
Christ’s answers to her doubts add to the uniquenessof her voice and the special status she has in His eyes. Although she was abusinesswomanforpartofherlifeandborefourteenchildren,sheisdepictedas though she has been perfect all her life. At one point, she tells Christ thatshe wants to ...
or exaltation of the senses, grateful even for distress and the vicissitudes of illness, because they always free us from some rule, and its "prejudice," grateful to the God, devil, sheep, and worm in us, inquisitive to a fault, investigators to the point of cruelty, with unhesitating fi...
Logic is a tool for knowing reality, but a very special kind of tool for doing so. Our senses give us a kind of basic, automatic knowledge of the world, but logic gives us more than that. Logic is the science of the method of non-contradictory inference. By now you should see how ...
I agreed with him that it was but a love of the senses. I comprehended how he should despise himself for thefeverish59influence it exercised over him; how he should wish tostifle60and destroy it; how he should mistrust its ever conductingpermanently61to his happiness or hers. I saw he wa...