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: I compare human life to a large Mansion of Many Apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me-The first we step into we call the infant or thoughtless Chamber, in which we remain as long as we do not think-We remain there a long while, and notwithstanding the doors of the second Chamber remain wide open, showing a bright appearance, we care not to hasten to it ; but are at length imperceptibly impelled by awakening of the thinking principle-within us-we no sooner get into the second Chamber, which I shall call the Chamber of Maiden-Thought, than we become intoxicated with the light and the atmosphere, we see nothing but pleasant wonders, and think of delaying there for ever in delight: However among the effects this breathing is father of is that tremendous one of sharpening one's vision into the nature and heart of Man — of convincing one's nerves that the World is full of misery and Heartbreak, Pain, sickness and oppression — whereby This Chamber of Maiden Thought becomes gradually darken'd and at the same time on all sides of it many doors are set open-but all dark-all leading to dark passages — We see not the balance of good and evil.
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I and compare
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To whom among all creatures shall I compare you, O Virgin?
Abbahu sent Ḥanina to the academy at Tiberias, where he himself had studied, but the lad occupied himself with the burial of the dead, and on hearing of this, the father sent him a reproachful message in this laconic style: " Is it because there are no graves in Cæsarea ( compare Exodus 14: 11 ) that I have sent thee off to Tiberias?
For events of short durations in the past, the distinction often coincides with the distinction in the English language between the simple past " X-ed ," as compared to the progressive " was X-ing " ( compare " I wrote the letters this morning " ( i. e. finished writing the letters: an action completed ) and " I was writing letters this morning ").
When placed on the external address bus, it replicates the original functions of B and C. Port A has input capture, output compare, pulse accumulator, and other timer functions ; port D has serial I / O, and port E has an analog to digital converter ( ADC ).
William Winstanley, who praised much of Richard Lovelace's works, thought highly of him and compared him to an idol ; " I can compare no Man so like this Colonel Lovelace as Sir Philip Sidney ,” of which it is in an Epitaph made of him ;
* " Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
They compare them to non-literal expressions by Jesus such as " I am the door ", " I am the vine ", " You are the salt of the earth ... You are the light of the world " ()," Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees " ().
I feel compelled, therefore, to compare him with Generalfeldmarschall Rommel, who likewise had mastered the art of tank warfare.
A few verbs are of both types at once, like read: compare I read, I read a magazine, and this magazine reads easily.
" Ciara has acknowledged Jackson as one of her primary influences, stating: " It seems like just yesterday I was watching Janet Jackson on TV ; now, some people compare me to her.
Cavalier also started out as a pejorative term — the first proponents used it to compare members of the Royalist party with Spanish Caballeros who had abused Dutch Protestants during the reign of Elizabeth I — but unlike Roundhead, Cavalier was embraced by those who were the target of the epithet and used by them to describe themselves.
When used attributively within a noun phrase, complex adjectival phrases tend to occur after the noun: I found a typist much quicker than I ( compare I found a quick typist, where a simple adjective occurs before the noun ).
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In the same chapter of John 18 verse 38 ( King James Version, compare with other versions ) the conclusion Pilate made from this interrogation: " I find in him no fault at all ".
* Downward counterfactuals: We compare our situation with those even worse ( e. g., " Yes, I procrastinated and got a B-in the course, but I didn't fail like one other student did .").
* That it arose in Anglo-Saxon England as an O and an I written in the same place, to represent a long close / ø / sound resulting from i-mutation of / o /: compare Bede's Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon period spelling Coinualch for standard Cēnwealh ( a man's name ) ( in a text in Latin ).
I and human
I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.
But to me Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with love for human beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism.
My reply is that I associate myself with all those who affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations should contribute to the theory and practice of human dignity.
Along these lines, the particular point that sensitivity in literature leads to sensitivity in human relations would require more proof than I have seen.
I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.
After making a short statement about human rights, and the freedom to travel, I told them I would be going to the Kehl bridge the next morning in order to cross the Rhine into Germany.
I mean such concepts as the presence of the supernatural in human affairs, the sacraments of grace and divine retribution, the idea of preordainment ( the oracle over Oedipus, the prophecy of the witches to Macbeth, or God's covenant with His people in Athalie ).
If a human figure or wild life are to be part of the projected final picture, I try to place them in the initial sketch.
I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.
`` The human ego being what it is '', I put in, `` science fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a thousand larger solar systems than ours must look like gigantic tube-nosed fruit bats.
Recently, for example, a paranoid woman's large-scale philosophizing, in the session, about the intrusive curiosity which has become, in her opinion, a deplorable characteristic of mid-twentieth-century human culture, developed itself, before the end of the session, into a suspicion that I was surreptitiously peeking at her partially exposed breast, as indeed I was.
In his analysis, however, he touches upon but fails to explore an idea, generally neglected in discussions of the book, which I believe is central to its art -- the importance of human hands as a recurring feature of the narrative.
I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.
In fact, He came into this world Himself, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, who stood here amid the darkness of human sin and said: `` I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life ''.
I calculated first that there are about an octillion atoms in the average human body ; ;
' I thought it was a human being ' ''.
I didn't know a human could feed so fast and still be beautiful.
Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.
He once wrote, " If I should go to Poland or Germany, every stone, every tree would remind me of contempt, hatred, murder, of children killed, of mothers burned alive, of human beings asphyxiated.
In 1976, Fuller was a key participant at UN Habitat I, the first UN forum on human settlements.
David Kusche pointed out a common problem with many of the Bermuda Triangle stories and theories: " Say I claim that a parrot has been kidnapped to teach aliens human language and I challenge you to prove that is not true.
" Casement then added how assailants would " bring down a dwarf on the way home, for the marital cooking pot ... The Dwarfs, as I say, dispense with cooking pots and eat and drink their human prey fresh cut on the battlefield while the blood is still warm and running.
I and life
`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
I don't suppose a wife should be grateful to her husband for saving her life, but I am.
I do not know if such a way of life can come to be a self-conscious challenge, but I suspect that it can.
The debate needed no additional controversy and soon I could ask each individually what he expected from life, what his hopes were and what his fears.
I asked about the battle between life and death in his plays.
I am not making a clinical judgment here, for such personal tragedies are real and are commonplace in the analyst's consulting room, but literature makes a different claim upon our sympathies than tragedy in life.
It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.
Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.
The accomplishment of the many tasks I have alluded to requires the continuous strengthening of the spiritual, intellectual, and economic sinews of American life.
And this, I think, holds for values as well as life styles.
I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.
I take the central meaning here to be the contrast between the drab empty quality of life without literature and a life enriched by it.
The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.
Papa, I should emphasize, had been an invalid the last several years of his life ; ;
This intellectual approach to spiritual life suited me well, because I was never content to lead a divided life.
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.
It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.
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